Hommage à Sara Levy und Phillis Wheatley - Konzert und Lesung

In the organizer's words:

This evening focuses on two marginalized representatives of the Enlightenment. Sara Levy (1761-1854) played an important role in the German Enlightenment as a hostess of tea parties in Berlin. The emancipated Jewish woman and accomplished harpsichordist also collected important music. The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin plays works by the Bach family, which Levy rediscovered and whose performance she encouraged. Selected poems by Phillis Wheatley (around 1753-1784) will be read. Wheatley, who was abducted from West Africa as a child and enslaved, is considered the first black female author in the USA. In her poems, she criticized racism, oppression and the transatlantic slave trade.