Black South Africans et al. in Johannesburg - 1962
from In Pursuit of Music, page 138:
I made some good friends in Johannesburg, but the colour problem depressed me. Africans were not allowed into the City Hall concerts, and when I went back there in 1962 I asked to play to them in their own habitat, a ramshackle place with a small upright piano, introducing the programme informally, including the Italian Concerto, the Kinderszenen, and Bartók’s Bulgarian Dances. At the end they sang me some part-songs and madrigals excellently and with love, one of the most touching thank-yous I ever received.
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Denis Matthews, In Pursuit of Music (London, 1966), p. 138. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1477603126885 accessed: 13 October, 2024
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Bulgarian Dances
written by Bartók |
performed by Denis Matthews |
Part songs and madrigals | performed by Black South Africans |
Italian Concerto
written by Johann Sebastian Bach |
performed by Denis Matthews |
Kinderszenen
written by Robert Schumann |
performed by Denis Matthews |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 1962 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by lcc5 on Thu, 27 Oct 2016 22:18:47 +0100
Approved on Wed, 17 May 2017 08:13:12 +0100