Jayson Gillham makes an uplifting return to the stage

We’re about three-quarters of the way through Sunday night’s opening show. Keys to Life – a concert program featuring pianists Jayson Gillham and Iyad Sughayer – in which Gillham reads a score by Lebanese composer Houtaf Khoury.

Preface to a performance by Khoury isolatedIn the work specially commissioned for the exhibition, the composer observes the difficulty of creating a work that will fit into a certain time when the hometown where he wrote the work is under bombardment.