“ ‘I need you to be on the edge of your seat, you need to be playing even when you are not playing,’ [conductor] David Bernard tells the musicians of the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony (PACS) … as he goes over perhaps the most recognizable first four notes of all music—Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5,” writes Milene Fernandez in Tuesday’s (1/19) Epoch Times (New York). “He has noticed that many of his colleagues and friends enjoy concerts in a visceral, engaged way.… As the music director of PACS, Bernard then decided to open a pathway for audiences to appreciate the live concert experience more—he decided to spread out the orchestra. In the nooks and crannies about 100 audience members will be seated between the musicians during PACS’s next performance, Beethoven’s Fifth: From the Inside Out!… After each of the four movements of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, the whole audience will move from one section of the orchestra to another.… Bernard hopes that it will jump-start passive listeners into appreciating more deeply live classical music concerts.” Park Avenue Symphony Orchestra performs Beethoven’s Fifth: From the Inside Out! in Manhattan on February 6.
Posted January 22, 2016
