My mother advised me that Tchaikovsky was ‘chocolate box’ music. Jani Allan grew up in a household where pop music was banned. She was raised on a strict diet of Chopin and Hanon. At ten she was a classical pianist and child prodigy. Stan Katz played her the Bee Gees every morning on 702 during their courtship. She set the soundtrack when she returned to South Africa as a talk-show host on Cape Talk. Music expresses the quintessence of life and its events. It is precisely this universality th [...]
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