https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z38Gxmm1xro
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ConnorDNetto - Witness
https://www.connordnetto.com/releases-archive/2024/witness
Jayson Gillham in recital
https://www.connordnetto.com/calendar/2024/10/03/jayson-gillham-in-recital
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Silence in the concert hall
August 11 2024, pianist Jayson Gillham introduced his premiere of Connor D’Netto’s Witness, a work dedicated to the journalists of Gaza, by saying:
“Over the last 10 months, Israel has killed more than one hundred Palestinian journalists. A number of these have been targeted assassinations of prominent journalists as they were travelling in marked press vehicles or wearing press jackets…”
Jayson Gillham is the latest in a long line of artists punished for their solidarity with Palestinians amidst (and before) the current genocide. The repeated assertion that a “concert platform is not an appropriate stage for political comment” follows an ahistorical attitude common within institutions, audiences and the broader public that classical music is an artform without real meaning, politics and thus contemporary relevance.