Michael Wilson, Greater Love – Second World War Memorial Concert (Australian War Memorial & Flowers of Peace), Limelight, 15 August, 2025
Artistic forces successfully marshalled in a poignant and musically powerful commemorative concert.
Staged in grand, sombre and moving style, on the 80th anniversary of the surrender of Japan in World War II, Greater Love was as much an experience as it was a concert. A poignant and historically enlightening experience, it also provided moments of exquisite musical beauty and pathos.
Involving over 120 instrumentalists, choristers, instrumental and vocal soloists – and no less than five conductors – it was also a logistical triumph, moving quickly and easily between various themes of remembrance and different musical moods.