William Cottam
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Articles by and about William Cottam
13 Aug 2009 John Hopkins - The Point of the Baton by William Cottam
John Hopkins once told me no one would ever understand or believe the experience we had there – the intense danger in the South African townships, the vast beauty of the old land, the African immersion into Western music through centuries of Christian missionaries, the Messiah sung in Zulu. We worked eighty-hour weeks taking the Natal Philharmonic Orchestra where it had never been, to the Townships of KwaZulu Natal, to more than 100,000 people in eight months, who had not heard an orchestra under the rule of apartheid...
CDs, Books and Kits featuring William Cottam
Book: The point of the baton : memoir of a conductor / John Hopkins, with William Cottam.