In Monday’s (2/1) Huffington Post, Jack Meyer previews the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony’s “Beethoven’s Fifth: From the Inside Out!” concert on February 6 at New York City’s DiMenna Center for Classical Music, “a unique reimagining of the traditional listening experience. In seating the audience inside the orchestra, [Music Director David] Bernard seeks to transform the passive listener into an engaged participant. ‘The idea dawned on me when attending a concert at Carnegie Hall with my colleagues,’ Bernard explained. ‘We’ve had this experience of being inside an orchestra. When fifty people are creating art in real time, each moment is exciting…. My philosophy is to give people the experience musicians get by throwing them into an orchestra.’ … By turning the concert experience inside out, Bernard eliminates this barrier between audience and orchestra.… The audience can feel the vibrations of the violins and the timbre of the trumpets [producing] an overwhelming sensory experience.” The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony, founded in 1999, performs regularly in New York City and has toured China. It has also raised funds for student scholarships at the Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division, and supports the El Sistema-inspired Harmony Program in New York City.
Posted February 4, 2016
