“A Black Rather Well-Known South African Recently Arrived in London”: Critical Responses to Todd Matshikiza’s Chocolates for My Wife
… and a different kind of modest celebrity in Britain. Born in 1921 in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape, Matshikiza, … in South Africa as a composer of choral music. He moved to Johannesburg in the late 1940s, where he met his wife, Esmé, … from which he did not recover” (as quoted in Bernstein 1994, 326). Possibly, the BBC’s disapproval of Matshikiza’s …