Rutgers.edu: The Arts as Black Resistance in Eighteenth-Century London: The Music of Ignatius Sancho Tuesday, January 25, 7:30 PM

Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780) 

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

Rutgers

The State University of New Jersey

Join Mason Gross School of the Arts and the Rutgers University Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice for a concert on period instruments, with commentary, on Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780). Known as the first Black person to publish original music compositions, Sancho used his work as a tool to resist enslavement and racism.

With soprano Sonya Headlam (DMA ’21) and pianist Rebecca Cypess.

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