Music teacher Dorothy Boxall dies

Date: 23 Dec 1951
Updated: 9 Dec 2019

Dorothy Ruth Boxall, music teacher and lecturer, writer and organiser of orchestral activities for the youth, died in Johannesburg. Following Boxall's death, the Children's Music Festival Society, the Transvaal School Music Association and the Johannesburg Junior Orchestra and Theatre merged to become the Dorothy Boxall Young People's Music and Drama Movement.

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01Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC.

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