Originally composed for piano, "Danse," arranged by Kirk Moss, begins with two introductory chords followed by energetic swinging rhythms and repeated angular melodies. Students will love the moods in this festive overture, evocative of later Broadway musicals. The artistic turning point of composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's career happened in his twenties when he met the African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, who influenced him to concentrate on his African heritage. Called Coleridge by his family, he was raised in Croydon, Surrey, by his mother and her father, who taught him the violin.