Classical Connections: The African Mahler

Full Series Announcement for South Facing Festival 2025 at Crystal Palace Bowl - London Post

South Facing Festival returns to the historic Crystal Palace Bowl in summer 2025 with its most ambitious programme to date. Set against the scenic backdrop of one of London’s most iconic open-air venues, the festival once again promises a run of spectacular live performances across multiple dates in August. With a stellar line-up that spans electronic, indie, hip-hop, folk, and more, South Facing continues to establish itself as a cultural corne…

Classical Connections: The African Mahler

Impression of Crystal Palace in the late 1850s. Here’s a question for you. What is the difference between Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Samuel Taylor Coleridge? Well, of course they are two different people but as a student, I invariably got them mixed up. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (with the hyphen) was born in 1875 and was a successful mixed-race composer of African descent who spent most of his lifetime in London. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, on the o…