< /p> Female fans at the Rock for People festival, June 8, 2023, Hradec Králové.
Hradec Králové – Today, the concert of the PKF – Prague Philharmonia Orchestra with the Clarinet Factory ensemble ended with great success at the Rock for People festival in Hradec Králové. The performance of representatives of classical music led by the conductor Marek Ivanović and the quartet, which offers elements of alternative, jazz or world music with sound experiments, attracted several hundred listeners to the covered stage. Some of them were sitting or lying on the wooden floor at the beginning of the performance, creating an unusual audience for musicians used to concert halls. Over time, however, some of those present became so excited by the music, which moved across genres, that there was also a wild punk dance.
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“Today will be the biggest stage we've ever played on. Even bigger than when we played at Colors of Ostrava. But we're already looking forward to the audience,” said Jindřich, head of the Clarinet Factory and clarinetist of the PKF – Prague Philharmonia, before the ČTK performance Pavliš.
When Pavliš announced the last song, the audience started clamoring for two more. At the end, several dozens of rock fans demonstrated the moshing dance style based on the hardcore punk community to members of PKF and Clarinet Factory. It is mostly danced at concerts while listening to live music. “Yesterday's (Thursday) performance by the band Slipknot was very aggressive towards me, this is a pleasant thing for me,” stated one of the girls present.
Pavliš did not worry about the composition of the audience, among whom there were many people with a more rock orientation. “We don't see it that way, we don't make our music for academics, maybe it's a little more sophisticated than the orthodox rockers would do, but I think we're very close to them,” he said. “When music is understandable, it has the ability to assert itself,” he added.
The combination of classical and rock music is not unique at the Rock for People festival. The PKF ensemble successfully performed here in 2019 in a program with the band Vypsaná fixa. This year, on the first day of the festival, the PKF string quartet played music from various musical eras in a concert that the orchestra's director, Kateřina Kalistová, characterized as “from Vivaldi to AC/DC”. , but every environment has its own. I think that today's young people are not so sharp that they wouldn't listen to something else. Moreover, I have the experience that people who grew up listening to more complex rock music today go to Mahler and Tchaikovsky,” he remarked about the string concert the Pavliš quartet.
The Hradec Králové Philharmonic Orchestra, which has long been dedicated to appealing to a younger audience by blending musical genres, will play alongside rock and punk bands in the Rock for People program on Sunday.
