London bass: I went to jail in my teens

London bass: I went to jail in my teens

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norman lebrecht

August 22, 2020

The doublebass virtuoso Leon Bosch talks in the first of the Wigmore Hall lecture-recitals about growing up as an anti-apartheid activist in authoritarian South Africa.

‘My first memory as a child was of men with dark suits in my bedroom… Our house was raided quite often.


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  • A friend says:
    August 22, 2020 at 4:45 pm

    Leon is one of the most amazing people I have ever met.

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  • Gillian Spragg says:
    August 22, 2020 at 8:09 pm

    Utterly moving. Please listen, and begin to understand.

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