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
Girdle of Venus
Description:
A live transmission of the lunar eclipse will be part of the concert.
The edge between day and night, between wakefulness and dreaming, but also between man and woman, forms the first borderland, titled Venus’s Girdle.
Arnold Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and John Zorn’s Chimeras will be performed alongside a live transmission of the lunar eclipse, projected onto the former altar space—now the Tankista—of the Chapel of the Ascension of the Virgin Mary in the former Brno prison.
When the CREATOR created the Earth and all living things on it, it decided someone should rule it. So it molded a beautiful, wise, and practical woman out of clay. Since the CREATOR liked hunting and trophies, it gave her enormous tusks. But when the woman came to life, she didn’t like them. She cut them off and forever concealed the traces with makeup. From one tusk, she carved a man—to serve her and take care of her. Unfortunately, the CREATOR was so exhausted from making the Earth that it teetered on the brink of collapse and madness. It messed everything up and accidentally placed the tusk between the man’s legs.
Program
Arnold Schönberg – Pierrot Lunaire
John Zorn – Chimeras
Irena Troupová – voice
Brno Contemporary Orchestra, conducted by Pavel Šnajdr
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