{"id":41534,"date":"2015-06-23T00:11:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T00:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41534"},"modified":"2015-06-23T00:11:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T00:11:18","slug":"joseph-emidy-from-slave-fiddler-to-classical-violinist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41534","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Emidy: From slave fiddler to classical violinist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joseph Emidy: From slave fiddler to classical violinist<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

BBC News<\/a>
\n2015-06-21<\/p>\n

Miles Davis<\/a><\/strong>, BBC News Online<\/p>\n

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\nJoseph Emidy led the Truro Philharmonic Orchestra <\/small><\/p>\n

The remarkable life of a former slave who became a pioneer of classical music has been commemorated.<\/em><\/p>\n

The “genius” violinist Joseph Emidy<\/a>, from West Africa, was enslaved for two long periods of his eventful life.<\/p>\n

But having finally gained his freedom in 1799, Emidy became “Britain’s first composer of the African diaspora”.<\/p>\n

His achievements were marked at Truro Cathedral<\/a> on Sunday with the erection of a ‘boss<\/a>‘ – a painted wooden carving featuring a violin and a map of Africa.<\/p>\n

On his death in 1835, The West Briton newspaper reported in Emidy’s obituary: “As an orchestral composer, his sinfonias may be mentioned as evincing not only deep musical research, but also those flights of genius.”…<\/p>\n

…Emidy was finally discharged four years later in the port of Falmouth<\/a> on 28 February 1799.<\/p>\n

He married a local woman, Jenefer Hutchins, in 1802, started taking on music students and became involved with the the first of Truro’s biennial concerts in 1804.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nBeverley Wilson (far right) the great, great, great, great grand-daughter of Joseph Emidy met kora <\/a>player Sona Jobarteh<\/a> (centre)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Silk Buckingham<\/a> described him as “an exquisite violinist, a good composer, who led at all the concerts of the county, and who taught equally well the piano, violin, violoncello<\/a>, clarionet and flute”…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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