Honouring a musical legend
Choral legend Professor Khabi Mngoma will be honoured at a concert in Empangeni later this month.
DOZENS of unemployed youth will gather at the Imbizo Conference Centre in Empangeni to honour one of South Africa’s choral legends, the late Professor Khabi Mngoma,with a concert on Friday, 27 November at 6pm.
Hosted by Esayidi TVET College and funded by the National Lotteries Commission, a concert featuring songs once conducted by Professor Mngoma will be performed by a choir of 40 voices made up youth from the communities of Port Shepstone and Empangeni.
Born in Troyeville, north-east of Johannesburg in 1922, Mngoma grew up in a musically fertile environment and came from musically gifted parents.
His mother, Agnes Matutu Nyembe, was a school teacher and his father, David Zwelonke Mngoma, a virtuoso concertina-playing maskandi musician.
By the time Mngoma became Head of Music at the University of Zululand (Unizulu), he had worked in the cultural sphere as an artist, a teacher, publisher, organiser of cultural activities, choir conductor, singing coach, historian and administrator.
Mngoma, who died in 1999 at the age of 77, founded the Music Department at Unizulu in 1975; started the Ford Choirs in Contest event in 1977 which is now known as the Old Mutual National Choir Festival; established the Ionian Music Society in 1960; the Ionian Youth Orchestra in 1969; and the Khongisa Youth Centre for the Performing Arts in 1976.
For more information regarding the concert call 031 260 2103.
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