INSIDE THE ORCHESTRA: MUSIC AND HISTORY

GEORG FRIEDRICH HÄNDEL Alexander’s Feast, overture
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3 in E flat major “Eroica” Op. 55 (selection from the 1st movement – Allegro con brio)
AARON COPLAND Portrait of Lincoln (selection)
DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 9 in E flat major Op. 70 (1st movement – Allegro), Symphony No. 10 in E minor Op. 93 (2nd movement – Allegro)
BEDŘICH SMETANA Fanfares from the opera Libuše

Filharmonie Brno
conductor Stanislav Vavřínek
moderators Kristýna Drášilová and Vítězslav Mikeš
script Kristýna Drášilová

Inside the Orchestra is a project which allows audiences to experience music from ‘within’. The orchestra will be spread throughout the auditorium of the Besední dům, with the audience seated among the musicians. Those who cannot find a place among the musicians may take seats wherever space remains available – around the orchestra or in the balcony.

The reprise of a successful concert is a ‘revision lesson’ in history: it offers links between music and historical figures as well as political and social events.

Tickets are sold by sector. Seats are not numbered.

Sector A: in and around the orchestra
Sector B: on stage
Sector C: in the balcony