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First Encounters: Musical Journeys from the Dawn of the Global Age

Musical Journeys from the Dawn of the Global Age

First Encounters: Musical Journeys from the Dawn of the Global Age

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Philippa Hyde: soprano
Agnes Chin: guzheng
William Summers: baroque recorder and flute
Diane Moore: baroque violin
Ibrahim Aziz: viola da gamba
Yeo Yat-Soon: harpsichord


Musical interactions between Ming and Qing Dynasty China and their European contemporaries in a global age of cultural cross-currents. Music by Cabezón, Gabrieli, Caccini, Purcell, Pedrini and Rameau which we know were or may have been performed in China; music from anonymous Chinese sources from the 17th century and in transcriptions by European visitors and settlers in the 18th century; to counterpoint this we also have music by three world travellers to London in the 18th century: Loum Kiqua, who visited from Canton, Ignatius Sancho (born on a trans-Atlantic slave ship) and Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint Georges (born in Guadeloupe to a French father and a former slave mother from Senegal).

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  • date Fri 9 June 2023
  • location St Mary's Church, Hampton
  • time 7:30pm
  • ticket £12 (£6 students and under-18s) in advance or or £14 (£7 students and under 18s) at the door

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Philippa Hyde: soprano
Agnes Chin: guzheng
William Summers: baroque recorder and flute
Diane Moore: baroque violin
Ibrahim Aziz: viola da gamba
Yeo Yat-Soon: harpsichord

Musical interactions between Ming and Qing Dynasty China and their European contemporaries in a global age of cultural cross-currents. Music by Cabezón, Gabrieli, Caccini, Purcell, Pedrini and Rameau which we know were or may have been performed in China; music from anonymous Chinese sources from the 17th century and in transcriptions by European visitors and settlers in the 18th century; to counterpoint this we also have music by three world travellers to London in the 18th century: Loum Kiqua, who visited from Canton, Ignatius Sancho (born on a trans-Atlantic slave ship) and Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint Georges (born in Guadeloupe to a French father and a former slave mother from Senegal).

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St Mary's Church, Hampton
Thames Street, Hampton, TW12 2EA, United Kingdom

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