"This piece is both a protest and a lament. I conceived it during the period of parent-child separations during the first Trump regime and wrote the work during the terrible and horrendous events in the Middle East which came to a head in 2023/2024 – with so many deaths and crimes against humanity affecting so many innocent people. I am an Israeli-born composer and am protesting intensely and in pain against the killing of so many innocent people by our army and the fact that there are such a huge number of dead children, children without parents and children without limbs in Gaza. I thought that this piece would be a loud scream – it ended up more like a lament."
moreConceived during the inhumane separations of refugee families under the first Trump administration and composed under the impression of the terrible events in Israel and Palestine in 2023/24, Chaya Czernowin's NO! is a work of lament and protest. It will be premiered on 29 April with the LA Phil New Music Group.
