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Aisslinn Nosky

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Handel and Haydn Society Period Instrument Orchestra

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Jonathan Woody World Premiere, From Themes By Ignatius Sancho

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Suite For String Orchestra After The Works Of Charles Ignatius Sancho

Concerto Grosso After Corelli, Op. 5, No. 5 In G Minor

Concerto Armonico No. 2 In B-flat Major

Concerto Grosso in C minor, HWV 326

Keerthi Raj

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H+H will give the world premiere of a commission by Jonathan Woody based on themes of Ignatius Sancho. Born on a ship carrying enslaved people in the Atlantic, Sancho was sold into slavery in the Spanish colony of New Grenada, later making it to England to become a business owner, writer, composer, and the first Black man to vote in a British election. Woody, an acclaimed bass-baritone as well as a highly regarded composer, has performed across the globe and H+H is proud to commission this new work. The program also will include music that inspired, or was inspired by, other compositions: Geminiani’s Concerto Grosso after Corelli, Op. 5, No. 5 in G Minor and Wassenaer’s Concerto Armonico No. 2 in B-flat Major, reputedly some of the origin material for Stravinsky’s Pulcinella.

Jonathan Woody World Premiere, From Themes By Ignatius Sancho by Woody, Geminiani, F., Wassenaer, Händel, From (2021/2021), Conductor Aisslinn Nosky

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