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Up to the mountain? To Berg!

Publication: Czech Music
Publication Date: 01-JAN-03 		Format: Online - approximately 1192 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Up to the mountain? To Berg!(Interview)

Article Excerpt
For me Berg is an unconquered mountain. And so is an orchestra formed of young musicians who vehemently deny that it is just a student affair. Certainly it has an unusual repertoire and, last but not least, it's a group that opens every concert with the premiere of a "made to measure" piece by a Czech contemporary composer.

The orchestra was formed back in 1995 on the initiative of the man who is still its sole conductor and leading personality -- Peter Vrabel. There was no one better to help me with my imagined climb up the mountain.

So let's start from Adam. Or from Alban, or from Josef. I can't resist asking -- why Berg?

That's definitely the question I'm asked most frequently. We would like to leave it slightly veiled in mystery, but the truth is that we didn't just want to call ourselves the Young Prague Chamber Orchestra, or something similar. We knew from the beginning what we wanted to play -- a lot of 20th-century and contemporary music. Alban Berg was ready to...

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