10 Sep 2025

Music with David Wilson: A capella around the world

From Nine To Noon, 11:05 am on 10 September 2025
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Music correspondent Dave Wilson joins Kathryn to look at a capella singing traditions around the world.

He features three different traditions of unaccompanied vocal group singing through one from Sardinia, one from a group of Central African foragers and one from the Black Barbershop singing tradition - that was recorded in the 1890s!

Dave Wilson is a saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, and interdisciplinary scholar, a Senior Lecturer in Music at the New Zealand School of Music-Te Kōkī.