b'Julian GrantSanchos Dance-MixA suite on dance tunes by Ignatius Sancho This new work was commissioned by Paul Boucher for the Buskaid Ensemble to perform at Boughton House, the seat of the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch.In creating this suite of dances for the Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble, composer Julian Grant has also created a tribute to an inspiring British African, Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780). Julian Grants composition is based on Sanchos Minuets &c. &c. for the Violin, Mandolin, German-flute and Harpsichord. Composd by an African. Book 2nd. Humbly Inscribed to the Right Honble. John Lord Montagu of Boughton (London, c. 1770).Ignatius Sancho arrived in Britain from Africa as a very young, enslaved child and was rescued from a life of servitude by the enlightened John, second Duke of Montagu, who helped educate him. He became popular in fashionable London society and was painted by Gainsborough. Bequests from the Montagu family enabled Sancho to publish his music and to establish a grocery shop close to the Montagu mansion in London. He was the first British African to vote, to own a shop, to have his own music, letters, and memoirs published, and the first African to have an obituary in the British press. Through his accomplished, witty, and well-informed letters, which also highlighted the immorality of the slave trade, Sanchos life became an important symbol of the humanity of Africans. He left a legacy of four volumes of musica set of songs and three sets of dances. ~Paul BoucherComposers note: The second book of Minuets &c. &c. by Ignatius Sancho consists of 11 minuets, an air, and a few assorted jigs, reels, and a hornpipe. The first movement of this adaptation strings together five minuets, and there is a tiny snatch of Sanchos original Minuet no 5 in G majorjust a melody and a bass lineat one point. The central Air is an almost straight transcription, and the finale weaves together Mariannes Reel, Richmond Hill (a jig), and Whod athought it? (a reel) into a drunken and exuberant counterpoint. ~Julian Grant buskaid.org.za/ 15'