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Celebrating Legacy and Unity: The Enduring Influence of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast

awatha’s Wedding Feast,” Accessed February 3, 2025, 7 It tells of Earth’s creation, conflicts between the lands of
https://web.archive.org/web/20201020165811/http:// Kalevala (Väinölä) and Pohjola, and the construction
www.cambridgechorus.org/works/HWF.html. and theft of the mythical Sampo, a magical source of
2 Charles Effrord, “Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel Coleridge-Tay- prosperity.
lor, Black Mahler,” Accessed January 30, 2025, http:// 8 The Ojibwe people are an Indigenous American tribe pri-
www.blackmahler.com/. marily located in the Great Lakes region of the United
3 Jeffrey P. Green, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a musical life (Rout- States and Canada.
ledge, 2016). 9 The Dakota people are an Indigenous American tribe and
4 “Hiawatha at the Royal Albert Hall (1924-1939),” Museum First Nations band government in North America. They
of Music History Blog (September 2012), Accessed April compose two of the three main subcultures of the Sioux
4, 2025. https://momh.org.uk/exhibitions/hiawatha- people and are typically divided into the Eastern Dakota
at-the-royal-albert-hall-1924-1939/ and the Western Dakota.
5 Fifteen pounds in 1898 is the approximate cost of $2,100 10 Maine Historical Society, “Whence these stories? History
in 2025. https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary- in Longfellow’s Poetry - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s
policy/inflation/inflation-calculator 215th Birthday,” Accessed March 1, 2025. https://www.
6 Trochaic tetrameter is a poetic meter that has four trocha- youtube.com/watch?v=p_ETVtqBnaI
ic feet per line. A trochee is a foot that has one stressed 11 Theresa Gaul, “Discordant Notes: Longfellow’s Song of
syllable followed by one unstressed syllable. In trochaic Hiawatha, Community, Race, and Performance Politics,”
tetrameter, each line has four trochees, or eight sylla- The Journal of American Culture (2004).
bles.

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