“The distance between politics and art is never very large,” says Jessica Agoston Cleary, a patron of the MSO.
It seemed rather like any other Sunday recital at the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s Iwaki Auditorium: several brilliant pieces of music composed by Brahms, Poulenc and Britten performed by musicians before a rapt audience of about 200 people.
Responding to the musicians’ letter with a statement, the MSO board said it would conduct “an independent external review into our policies, procedures and processes following this week’s decision to cancel the concert of Jayson Gillham”.program, said: “The distance between politics and art, no matter what the art form, is never very large.Attendee and patron of the MSO, Jessica Agoston Cleary, says the distance between art and politics is never big.
“I imagine there’s patronage issue associated with that, where the money flows come from, and again there is always politics involved with money ... However, an organisation does need to maintain a level of support and autonomy for their creative people to have views.”did this brilliantly. “He’s often talking about the elements of the music and how it can evoke emotions and express various things and how he responds to it. It’s an important part of an art form,” she said.
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