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As a regular lurker but regrettably infrequent contributor, I hope you will forgive a little self-promotion here. On 5 October, I will be discussing Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's "Nourmahal's Song" at the RCM. This will be followed by its first ever public performance (fortunately not by me, I hasten to add!).

This work was discovered in our Library last year - previously unknown to scholars of Coleridge-Taylor. Its fascinating history involves an orchestration by Louise Kirkby Lunn's son and an attempted performance conducted by Sir Henry Wood, which Coleridge-Taylor's own son, Hiawatha, pulled the plug on at the last minute.

To whet your appetites, a recording is available on YouTube already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjCgBe4YHGo

The talk/performance itself is free to attend: https://www.rcm.ac.uk/events/details/?id=2800916

The RCM Library have recently digitised a number of S C-T's autograph manuscripts: https://archive.org/details/@royal_college_of_music_london?query=coleridge-taylor

The RCM has a volume of his piano music and songs (34 in total), at least some of which appear to be unique to that Library: https://rcm.koha-ptfs.co.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?idx=&q=D3152*+Blockx. Images of at least the first pages of music are included in the catalogue records.

His name has certainly fascinated me for some time since he appears to have had a lot of music published - including substantial works like operas and symphonies - yet is practically unheard of today. And only one recorded work available on Naxos.