Percival Kirby
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(18*-19*) Professor of music and musician.
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Biography
He was professor of music at the University of the Witwatersrand in the 1920s.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
In a production of The Tempest at the Palladium Theatre, Johannesburg by the University Players in 1923, he was part of an ensemble of six who provided incidental music.
He composed the operas Open or Shut (1943) and A Maid of Amsterdam (1952).
Sources
Hilde Roos. 2012. 'Indigenisation and history: how opera in South Africa became South African opera'. Acta Academica Supplementum. 2012(1).
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