Marshall P. Baron - Biography

Biography

1934	Born on 3 August in Bulawayo, Rhodesia to Rachel & Ben Baron.
1945	Having shown an unusual interest and delight in music from a very early age, formed a music appreciation club to learn about famous composers and classical music.
1948	Began painting
1949	Matriculated with 5 distinctions at Milton High School, Bulawayo.
1951	Awarded a Beit Scholarship and a Southern Rhodesia Scholarship to study at university.
1951	Won a Rhodes Trustees Literary Prize for an essay about the musician Sibelius.
1951–1956	Studied at Cape Town University, South Africa for B.A. L.L.B. degree. Elected to Students Representative Council and was Chairman of N.U.S.A.S. (The National Union of South African Students). Principal of Night School at Retreat run by students for deprived Coloured and African people including serving on the executive of the Cape Non-Europeans Night School Association. It was there that his over-riding concern and compassion manifested for the suffering and under privileged of all races, colours and creeds. He was gentle and hated violence and became an ardent and outspoken opponent and critic of racialism, oppression and injustice – characteristics which were to dominate his life. He organized a Musical Appreciation Club at Smuts Residence Hall at the university.
1954	First of many regular exhibitions in Southern Africa.
1957	Graduated and began practising as a lawyer in the legal firm of Ben Baron & Partners in Bulawayo.
1962–1977	Music Critic for the Bulawayo newspaper The Chronicle
1966–1968	Ben Shahn, world renowned American artist, awarded him a scholarship for three consecutive years to the Annual Young Artists Summer School at Skowhegan in Maine, USA.
1968	Founder member of the Rhodesian Society of Artists and subsequent Chairman in 1976. Each year also attended the Annual Camp of the National Music Camp Association of which he was a committee member.
1972	Designed and executed original sets for the ballet "Nnogawuse".
1970's	Played an active role in the liberal Central African Party and Centre Party
1974	Stood as an independent candidate for the Matobo constituency in the General Election in 1974.
1977	Died suddenly on 3 May in Bulawayo at the age of 42.

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