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From Staff Reports Check out the Championship Cup Series at NJMP MILLVILLE – New Jersey Motorsports Park will present the Championship Cup Series, motorcycle road racing, on April 24 and 25 on Thunderbolt Raceway, including ASRA Sprint Races and CCS Sprint Races. Two-day tickets are $20 per person with kids ages 12 and younger admitted free. NJMP is at 8000 Dividing Creek Road. For information, call (856) 327-8000 or visit NJMP.com. Enjoy the music at the Exit Zero Jazz Festival CAPE MAY – The Exit Zero Jazz Festival will be held from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. April 23 to 25, rain or shine. Fat M...

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, ca. 1905, photographer unknown (Public domain) The name Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) often appears on lists of African-descended composers, but in truth I don’t know that I’d ever heard any of his compositions, certainly not in live performance. Have you, Reader? A new CD has just appeared from Azica Records called UNCOVERED Volume 1 that is entirely dedicated to his music, and at 79 minutes’ duration, it’s a generous sampling. It contains three early works for string quartet, Fantasiestücke (Fantasy Pieces) op. 5 from 1895, and two quintets: one in ...

The Clarinet Quintet is the high point of this introductory volume of Catalyst’s Uncovered series exploring Black composers.

Mitsuko Uchida, the Louisiana Philharmonic and a performance organized by Teju Cole are among the highlights.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was only in his early twenties and not long graduated from the Royal College of Music when his cantata Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast