An upcoming performance presented by the Raritan Players features the music of Ignatius Sancho, a Black composer, writer and abolitionist in 18th-century London, and A Tempo this Saturday (1/8 at 7 pm) explores Sancho's life and works in a conversation with soprano Sonya Headlam and pianist Rebecca Cypess, associate dean for academic affairs and associate professor of musicology at Rutgers' Mason Gross School of the Arts.
The performance will be live-streamed Jan. 25 at 7:30 pm, and is co-sponsored by Mason Gross and the Rutgers Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice. It is also offered in connection with the National Day of Racial Healing.
(Photos: Top - Francesco Bartolozzi, engraving of Ignatius Sancho after a portrait by Thomas Gainsborough (1768). The engraving was later printed in the posthumous collection Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African; Bottom right: Soprano Sonya Headlam; Bottom left: Pianist Rebecca Cypess.)
Francesco Bartolozzi, engraving of Ignatius Sancho after a portrait by Thomas Gainsborough (1768). The engraving was later printed in the posthumous collection Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African; Bottom right: Soprano Sonya Headlam; Bottom left: Pianist Rebecca Cypess.)
