Fauré Requiem
Sometimes an orchestral program proves to be meaningful in ways that were never intended when it was first devised. Such was the case last Thursday and Saturday, when the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra gave its first local outing since the onset of public and internal turmoil last month sparked by the orchestra’s management’s cancellation of a planned concerto performance on 15 August by Australian pianist Jayson Gillham. This was prompted by Gillham’s decision, during an MSO-sponsored piano recital he had given a few days earlier, to introduce one of the pieces, Witness, by Australian composer Connor D’Netto, by explaining that it had been dedicated to the more than 100 Palestinian journalists killed during the current conflict in Gaza.
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