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composer who defied apartheid

When celebrated Russian-born composer Igor Stravinsky visited South Africa in 1962, he defied
racist laws to conduct a concert to a black audience.

One of the audience members, now in his nineties, remembers that night and how it changed the
course of his life.

You can hear The Documentary: Stravinsky in South Africa on BBC World Service radio
on Tuesday 25 July, in which a rediscovered recording of the concert will be broadcast for the first
time.

Video journalist: Chris Parkinson

25 Jul 2017

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