Sancho's Dance Mix – Julian Grant

If you are interested in a part set for a performance, please contact us. Composer: Julian Grant Instrumentation: string orchestra Duration: Approx. 12 minutes Date Written: 2014 Additional information:  In creating this suite of dances for the Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble to perform at Boughton House on July 13th 2014, the composer Julian Grant has also created a tribute to an inspiring British African, Ignatius Sancho (c.1729-80) It is based on Sancho’s " Minuets &c. &c. for the Violin, Mandolin, German-flute and Harpsichord. Compos'd 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 child slave, 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