Music to meditate on
The rare talent that is Maxwell Baloyi gets Bongani Madondo contemplating piano’s place in the great South African songbook
23 March 2025 - 00:00
When the essayist Bongani Madondo was asked to introduce the pianist Maxwell Baloyi at his debut album launch, he opted to “dig” up the new virtuoso from the piano tradition of the Azanian songbook..
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