britain's first mainly black asian and
ethnically diverse
orchestra escort chineke has tonight
performed the world premiere of a work
inspired
by a black demonstrator who came to the
aid of a white protester during a black
lives matter protest
earlier this year and the image of
patrick hutchinson's act of kindness
outside the royal festival hall in
london went viral on social media
our arts editor will gompert went to the
dress rehearsal
i'll stare at this image numerous times
my eyelids will pull and plead to blink
to quell this heat slowly rising
it takes you somewhere it allows you
time to breathe
it allows some truths to come out
like the same programs every festive
season this is remnants a new piece of
music and poetry
watched for the first time by patrick
hutchinson the man who inspired it for
the action he took in june
when he carried a counter protester to
safety from a black lives matter
demonstration
in london can you relate
what happened here with what you've just
heard in there
yes i can with the combination of the
spoken word
with the powerful music 100 um on the
day
if you were there amongst the melee it
was hectic
there was a lot of confusion there was a
lot of there was a mixture of love and
hate because
there were people trying to protect him
but there were also people who
wanted harm to come to him and you know
that resonates really
a lot with what happened inside there i
i felt i really felt it
the history of black composers
in what we call classical music
has really been forgotten but i think
there is a real hunger in this industry
to kind of right
that wrong and to also welcome everybody
um into the world that of classical
music
[Music]
i had this little hairs went up on the
back of my neck because i knew
this was a piece to be reckoned with
it's got
such dynamism and such angst and passion
in it that it it just took flight
i knew we were in for something very
magical and very special
a lot for the joy of the hero's children
remnants is not so much a celebration of
an act of kindness
more an invitation to ask the questions
that arise from it
about representation social anxiety and
equality
it is very much of and about the world
today
will gompets bbc news