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BONILE NGQIYAZA | A tribute to the late ‘gracious’ Maria ‘Podesta’ McCloy | SA News

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“Wanna come? I can list you for next Thursday’s show.”

That was Maria McCloy’s message to me in my Facebook inbox after she shared a Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra announcement about the return of live concerts after Covid-19. Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Mozart, Beethoven at the Linder Auditorium. Music returning to the city after isolation and fear.

When I think about it now, I answered with the kind of reply middle-aged people send each other too often: “I would love to attend this Maria, but pshaw! I have got such a hectic, hectic schedule I cannot possibly make it. Not this time around.”

At the time it felt like one of those…

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