On 10 July, the Federal Court ruled that classical pianist Jayson Gillham had failed in his discrimination case against the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Of course music can try to capture the feeling of a particular time or place or emotion. Take Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. The composer has long been praised for capturing the mood of each season in the four movements of the work. But if you heard The Four Seasons without knowing the title, you wouldn’t hear it and think ‘Ah, this is about autumn’.
