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Music of Ignatius Sancho

by Norma and Richard Mayer

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The Complaint (Ignatius Sancho) (free) 01:51
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Sweetest Bard (Ignatius Sancho) (free) 03:19
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Anacreon ode XXIII (Ignatius Sancho) (free) 04:16
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Thou soft flowing Avon (Ignatius Sancho) (free) 05:31
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Kate of Aberdeen (Ignatius Sancho) (free) 03:52
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Friendship, source of joy (Ignatius Sancho) (free) 04:56
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Charles Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729 – 14 December 1780) was a British abolitionist, writer and composer. Born on a slave ship in the Atlantic, Sancho was sold into slavery in the Spanish colony of New Granada. After his parents died, Sancho's owner took the two-year-old orphan to Britain and gifted him to three Greenwich sisters, where he remained for eighteen years. Unable to bear being a servant to them, Sancho ran away to the Montagu House in Blackheath where John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu taught him how to read and encouraged Sancho's budding interest in literature. After spending some time as a butler in the household, Sancho left and started his own business as a shopkeeper, while also starting to write and publish various essays, plays and books.

Sancho quickly became involved in the nascent British abolitionist movement, which sought to outlaw both the slave trade and the institution of slavery itself, and he became one of its most devoted supporters. Sancho's status as a male property-owner meant he was legally qualified to vote in a general election, a right he exercised in 1774 and 1780, becoming the first known British African to have voted in Britain. Gaining fame in Britain as "the extraordinary Negro", Sancho became, to British abolitionists, a symbol of the humanity of Africans and the immorality of the slave trade and slavery. Sancho died in 1780, with his The Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African, edited and published two years after his death, being the first published letter collection by a writer of African descent.
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released June 3, 2023

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Norma and Richard Mayer play a fiery brand of chamber music not often associated with their rare musical blend - music for unaccompanied voice and flute. Their operatic arrangements have been acclaimed as a groundbreaking direction in modern music.

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