In Review

(Photo: J. Adam Fenster)

RARE COPY: University Libraries became home to a rare copy of the sheet music for “Farewell Song of Frederick Douglass,” a song written to commemorate the famous abolitionist’s return to the United States from England in 1847. Bound as part of a volume of other sheet music, the Douglass work is believed to be the only copy in the United States and one of only two in the world. Composed by Douglass’s close companion and fellow abolitionist, the Englishwoman Julia Griffiths, the music was performed this winter in Rochester for the first time in more than a century as part of a celebration of the bicentennial of Douglass’s birth. To hear the song and see it performed by Jonathan Rhodes ’20E and Lee Wright ’03E, ’18E (DMA), visit Youtube.com/watch?v=I53djcD77iA.