Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Music of African Composer Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780) at Southbank Centre Oct. 17

[Ignatius Sancho: An African Man of Letters; Reyahn King et al.; National Portrait Gallery of the U.K. (1997)]

CELEBRATION OF LIFE presented by the Metropolitan Black Police Association 
Friday 17 October 2008, 7:30 pm
“Opera lends its voice to the concert for the first time with Alex Wilson’s arrangements of arias by Ignatius Sancho. Sancho was born in 1729 on a slave ship headed from Africa to the West Indies, but was brought by his owner to London as an orphan at the age of two. Self-educated, he was an accomplished writer and composer and the first African in Britain to vote and be published for his works.”
“Alex Wilson, well known on the UK music scene as a composer, arranger, pianist and educator, will be curating an exclusive performance of music composed by Ignatius Sancho.” Southbank Centre - Royal Festival Hall, Belvedere Road SE1 8XX, £15 (£10 conc) + bkg, 0871 663 2505 http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk [The African composer and author Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780) is profiled at AfriClassical.com]
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