Why Stravinsky went to South Africa
main‘I like to appear before human beings,’ the composer told the apartheid regime.
But getting to meet a non-white orchestra was not easy.
Watch a BBC World Service documentary here.
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Very inspirational!
Non-white *audience*, not non-white orchestra.