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Leon Bosch: Marking 50 Years Since the Soweto Uprising

South African music led by a conductor who was arrested in the year it commemorates.

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At Blackheath Halls.

On 16 June 1976 more than ten thousand Soweto schoolchildren walked out in protest at the apartheid regime and the police fired on them, which is where the months that followed began. Leon Bosch, Trinity Laban's double bass professor, is the son of an activist and was himself arrested that year.

He conducts the String Ensemble in music by South African composers, with Maximilian Lamprecht as double bass soloist. The programme plays twice in two days, at St Bartholomew the Great and here.

Where
23 Lee Road, SE3 9RQ
Nearest station
Blackheath · 2 min walk

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