{"id":106314,"date":"2025-08-30T08:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T08:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/106314\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T08:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T08:32:08","slug":"protest-disrupts-melbourne-orchestras-london-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/106314\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest disrupts Melbourne orchestra\u2019s London show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The horns, strings and reeds of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra were replaced by a far angrier noise on Friday night as they performed in London.<\/p>\n<p>The group Jewish Artists for Palestine disrupted the MSO\u2019s performance at the Royal Albert Hall for a live broadcast on BBC Radio 3, silencing the music and forcing the concert to restart.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jewish Artists For Palestine protesters at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Friday night. The group disrupted the orchestra\u2019s performance during a live broadcast for the BBC proms.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ddcd97a7c8ae22acea50b4be68aed1b2f34b5700.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jewish Artists For Palestine protesters at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Friday night. The group disrupted the orchestra\u2019s performance during a live broadcast for the BBC proms.Credit: Artfrontline\/X<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe MSO has blood on its hands,\u201d roared a woman in the crowd, filmed by an audience member in video since uploaded to social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou silenced Jayson Gillham! The MSO is complicit in genocide! You silence artists! The MSO is complicit!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>Pianist Jayson Gillham was sacked from the MSO after making a statement in support of Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza prior to a performance in August 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The MSO cancelled the next event at which Gillham was to perform and released a statement saying his comments were not appropriate and \u201can intrusion of personal political views\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It later said it had made an error in cancelling Gillham\u2019s shows.<\/p>\n<p>Gillham later reached an in-principle settlement with former Melbourne Symphony Orchestra managing director Sophie Galaise, but is still suing the MSO itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The horns, strings and reeds of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra were replaced by a far angrier noise on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-106314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}