ESAT Personalities F

FISHER, Cyril. (19**-) Accountant. Through his organisation Music Viva he gave Johannesburg’s music lovers access to many of the world’s greatest musicians. One of the first seven Trustees of the Market Theatre Foundation and did the books for the Market Theatre (See Schwartz, 1988)

FISHER, Michael. (19*-). Performer. He starred in the revue What Was, Was! by Gertie Awerbuch and Miriam Lopert (Jewish Guild and the Alexander Theatre , 1965), Joan Brickhill and Louis Burke’s The Minstrel Scandals for ACT (Alhambra in Cape Town and the Empire Theatre, Johannesburg, 1966). (Tucker, 1997)

FISHER, Peta. (19*-). ** Worked for Musica Viva and assisted Ernest Fleischmann, who headed the committee which designed the programme for the arts festival which was to be held in September 1956 by the Johannesburg City Council to commemorate the seventieth birthday of Johannesburg.

FISHER, Ryland. (19**-) Journalist and cultural activist. ** At his initiative the One City Many Cultures initiative was launched 1999, and in 2001 became the Cape Town Arts Festival, under his chairmanship.

Fisher, Anne Fisher, Michael