Patrick Meadows and Stephanie Shepard Memorial Site
I received the following note from Lionel and am sharing the good news with you here. The Coleridge-Taylor score has been updated by Michael Repper and released as a second edition. It is now in the public domain. Lionel and Patrick received special mention in the score’s Dedication as well as the Editor’s Note. – […]
Another recording of SC-T’s work is about to be released, this one on the Somm Recordings label. It can be pre-ordered now.
Here’s another update to the May 3rd post about the new recording of some of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s orchestral music. The album is now formally available as a CD and on streaming services.
Presto Music has announced the future release of the Coleridge-Taylor recording described earlier (on 3 May 2025).
More of Patrick’s efforts are making it to disc with the release of several works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor on the Avie label, recorded by the National Philharmonic conducted by Michael Repper and featuring violinist Curtis Stewart.
This post explains how it all came about.
Imagine if you have to proof-read not just in one dimension horizontally, as you do with text, but in two, as you have to with a musical score, especially an orchestral one with maybe forty staves in the vertical dimension. It was this challenge that brought Patrick and me together.
Here’s a link to the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Foundation, specifically the obituary that Lionel wrote: https://sctf.org.uk/2017/05/14/r-i-p-patrick-meadows-1934-2017/ The article is dated 14 May 2017, six years ago today. (The photo is from the article.) My niece discovered it when searching for pictures of her grandfather.
Lionel posted this recently as a comment to Patrick’s 87th Birthday but I want to give it more prominence, so here it is separately. Just an update to my last contribution, really: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective have just released a CD on Chandos of the three early Coleridge-Taylor chamber works which Patrick type-set. Very appropriately, the […]
Patrick and Lionel collaborated for years on bringing music back to life from the forgotten, dusty shelves of libraries around the globe. This morning Lionel added a lovely comment to a recent post, one that reinforces the work that they did to help bring Samuel Coleridge-Taylor into the world of known music again. Check out […]
Only thought is fleeter than light. Five hours and light reaches us from Pluto. But in a nanosecond we can reach Pluto in our minds. We are not there, except in thought, but that is the point. The same happens with time travel. With a flick of a dendrite I stand on a varnished floor […]