Musician Mel Fitzhugh said she hopes her music can help amplify Wheatley's story of becoming the first African-American to publish a volume of poetry while growing up enslaved in the home of a prominent Boston family.
on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall in the Back Bay features three sculptures that pay tribute to women whose ideas and writing helped shape the city and the nation. One of the members of the trio is internationally-acclaimed poet,
"Imagination - Fancy: A Quasi Motet for Octet" is inspired by Wheatley's poem"On Imagination." Fitzhugh said she feels it's crucial to amplify Wheatley's story, and she hopes her music helps. In Fitzhugh’s composition, the higher voices sing of imagination and how it can transport a person to a better place, while the basses create tension — going deeper and lower and suggesting the poet cannot avail herself of such a path.
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