Joseph White

CD Notes: Joseph White[1] (1839[2] - 1918) was born in Matanzas, Cuba, the son of a French businessman and an Afro-Cuban mother. He studied and Paris and became a concert sensation in Europe and Latin America. His 1864 Concerto in F-sharp Minor is a grandly virtuosic Romantic work. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) was the son of a medical student from Sierra Leone and an Englishwoman. He was highly respected in the U.S. especially by cultured African-Americans, and was a White House guest of President Theodore Roosevelt. His sweetly nostaligic 1899 Romance in G Major is reminiscent of Dvorak, whom he idolized. As noted by the booklet essayist Mark Clague, none of these works use African-derived melodies or rhythmic signatures. Instead, they "seamlessly adopt the traditions and tropes of the Western European concert tradition. "

[1]aka José Sylvestre White y LaFitte [2]born 1835, 1836, 1838 or 1839?