It has not finished with Janáček!
The Brno Contemporary Orchestra (BCO) was established in 2011 with the purpose to present contemporary world music at home and Czech music abroad (with overlaps to the music of the 20th century).
We want to draw up listeners and show them that the music is a part of our daily life. By compact dramaturgic units and by original projects linking music with other arts (film, visual arts, etc.) we wish to be attractive not only for the audience, but even for composers – which we want to motivate to create new pieces made-to-measure for the orchestra.
The founder, artistic director and conductor of BCO is Pavel Šnajdr.
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The Statutory City of Brno financially supports the Brno Contemporary Orchestra
The concerts are organized with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic
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Next concert
The Supreme Surgeon
Description:
Marking the 60th anniversary of the “Šoffr Affair”
In a small town, a peculiar illness began to spread. They called it intelligence, and likened it to atomic energy. It infected the minds of students—and their teachers too—compelling them to think about the free development of society.
Unfamiliar neural pathways led the infected not only to inappropriate speech and writing, but also to protests and mockery. Units of physically fit and ideologically pure workers were dispatched, intending to shoot the infected or send them to the mines for a cure. But the healers’ power had not yet exceeded mediocrity. A specialist had to be summoned.
And so the Great Surgeon arrived—and finally excised the disease from the town for decades to come.
Program
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Vít Nejedlý – The Dying Melodrama, for chamber string orchestra and flute, Op. 6
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Clara Iannotta – They left us grief-trees wailing at the wall
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Trevor Grahl – From Curious Land and Places
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Sergei Slonimsky – Concerto Buffo
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