 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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One-hit wonder; Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Hiawatha was as popular in the 1900s as Andrew Lloyd Webber's musicals are today. But, as the first release of the composer's violin concerto reveals, he never bettered it.
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Byline: NORMAN LEBRECHT
ONE summer's morning in 1912, a man of 37 left home and walked to West Croydon railway station, where he bought a ticket to Crystal Palace.
Before the train could puff in, he collapsed on the platform. Unaided, he staggered home to St Leonard's Road, where a doctor diagnosed pneumonia and prescribed complete rest.
The patient worked in bed on the manuscript of an overdue violin concerto; he died four days later.
At the funeral, crowds lined the route four deep, for his was more than local celebrity. Samuel ...
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Brocheux, Pierre: Ho Chi Minh: A Biography.(Book review)
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