SMU voice teacher has changed South African music | Opinion
That was in 2000. South Africa’s democracy was still nascent. It had been only six years since the first democratic election had shifted power from the country’s small white minority to its overwhelming black majority. Nelson Mandela, freed after 27 years of political imprisonment, had been elected the first Black president.
And while many travel the world singing and teaching, others take their training back to South Africa, passing on their knowledge to coming generations. Many of Hill Moore’s former students are now colleagues, and nearly every university music department in every major South African city has someone who has studied with her at SMU.
“The education we were getting at the time did not prepare us for university,” he said, in gentle Zulu-accented English. “The girls would learn how to bake, and for us, we were outside gardening, learning how to keep the flowers looking nice.”
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