Experience the music behind the turbulent crossroads of politics, the rum industry, and the transatlantic slave trade in the Caribbean, South America, and Europe. Baritone Jean Bernard Cerin joins violinist Tekla Cunningham and pianist Henry Lebedinsky for this unique concert. Hear songs by Black British composer, abolitionist, and merchant Ignatius Sancho as well as by José Mauricio Nuñes Garcia, grandson of sugar cane plantation slaves. The program also includes a violin sonata by Caribbean-born Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint Georges, who in his later life fought for Haitian independence, as well as works by 19th and 20th century Créole composers.
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