And yet, as Alberga explains in her recent BBC Radio 3 documentary A History of Black Classical ... African American gay man. Although he died homeless and all but forgotten in 1990, his music ...

Classical music has been his escape for three years ... Under apartheid, the system of racial segregation in South Africa that lasted until the 1990s, there were very few opportunities for ...

Originally there was a clear distinction between popular and classical music ... Elements of black African music, such as rhythms and use of pentatonic scales, have played a major part in ...