2016 Pulse Nightclub massacre by the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra has fallen apart after blowback on social media. The reason: commenters attacked the Philharmonic for planning to play a piece by a straight white man.The Philharmonic had originally announced it would play a piece by composer Lev Zhurbin, who goes by the professional moniker Ljova.
Ljova, himself a Russian-American immigrant, composed the piece as a reaction to his own horror at the attack which claimed the lives of 49 people.“I was just about to begin composing the piece then, and asked the orchestra if it would be OK for me to dedicate the new piece to the victims,” Ljova said in a statement. “It was my intention to bring attention and comfort to the families of the.