Revolution is a sudden reversal during which the status quo collapses and is replaced by a new order; evolution is a natural, long-term and spontaneous process of change.
If the revolutionary impulse is constantly repeated, it becomes the norm, provoking further, new (or old-new) reactions.
This is how revolution and evolution come together to make ®evolution. In 2017 we also commemorate the 80th anniversary of the death of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia, the centenary of which we will celebrate next year. The programming recognises these anniversaries by including a large share of Czech music (including works by Jan Dismas Zelenka, Leoš Janáček, Pavel Haas, Ervín Schulhoff, Jaroslav Ježek, Miloslav Kabeláč and Marek Kopelent) and in the celebratory conclusion of the festival on 28 October – a bank holiday and the day when Czechoslovakia’s independence was proclaimed – which will feature performances by several Brno choirs and the planting of a “Masaryk Linden tree” (the national tree of the Czechs) in the park on Rooseveltova ulice.
Moravian Autumn does not forget its young audience, for whom two special events are scheduled: a meeting after some years with the successful participants in the piano competition Amadeus 2005 – they are now adults – and a performance of Kirana, the children’s opera, in which students of Brno’s elementary arts schools will be involved.
