PRS for Music has honoured African British classical composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) with the display of a new sketch in the organisation’s boardroom.

The composer is believed to have been as famous in his day as John Lennon and Paul McCartney with his Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast work making him a global star.

Kwaku, the editor of British Black Music Magazine, Coleridge-Taylor’s biographer Jeffrey Green, and representatives from the Royal Choral Society, the Royal College of Music and the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Network, ...