By Choosing Silence, a Possibility Dies
I invited a chamber orchestra to perform the concerto Grosso, Op.6, No.2 by the composer Friedrich Händel (1685-1759). Händel, like many other artists, worked for the ruling power of the period, and was criticized for it in his time. Almost two centuries later, he was used as an instrument to its ends by the Third Reich, as a representation of its ethical and moral values.
The peculiarity of the concert was that one of the musicians sabotaged the performance by playing Freedom Suite, by jazzman Sonny Rollins (Harlem, New York, 1930), which is considered the first jazz piece explicitly aimed at protest.