mb_compositions_quintet_for

Composer	BETKO Milos	VIDEO
Lyricist	CIRCLE Peter

Original Title	Quintette pour orchestre
Subtitle	yarn for 1-4 flutes, 1-4 oboes, 1-4 clarinets, 1-4 male voices,
	20-40 violinists with metal tuning forks, model double bass,
	tam-tam, an armed-and-legged conductor,
	missy "Scribe" and Twins
Genre	abstract stage music

Instrumentation	1-4 Flutes, 1-4 Oboes, 1-4 Clarinets in Bb, 1-4 Men's Voices,
	20-40 Violinists with metal tuning forks,
	Tam-tam, Double Bass, Synthesizer
Duration	13 minutes

Year of Composition	1991
Copyright	© Milos Betko (SOZA), Bratislava, Slovakia

Premiere	MESTICKA Martina, SIMKOVA Iveta, SKOGDAL Elin, STREITOVA Monika - Flutes
	GREKOVA Zuzana, KRCHNIAK Robert, PLAVEC Marcel, TAKACOVA Silvia - Oboes
	DRLICKA Peter, ELIAS Jozef, TOMAN Kamil, TOTH Kristian - Clarinets in Bb
	KOMA Peter, SCHREINER Ivan, SOLCANY Viliam, TOMES Radovan - Men's Voices
	Pupils of the Primary Music School Halkova Street - Violins
	POPOVIC Anton - Conductor, Synhesizer, Lights
	SCHOTTEROVA Svetlana - Missy "Scribe"
	CERNAKOVA Kaja, CERNAKOVA Sasa - Twins
	BETKO Milos - Stage Direction
	Bratislava, Slovakia, 1994

At the time I've discovered the violin as a "wooden thing" I felt happier and unhappier at the same time. (As some years before.) Suddenly I could decide to caress the violin, to tap it, to saw it through or to kiss it. Even I could to play it ...
With the increasing number of the performances of a work - the possibility that someone comprehends at least something of what this work meant once to the author (if we are interested in that at all) - also slighthly increases. So I present various performances at the same time.
The composition is originally called "Quintette pour orchestre" because this quintet for the orchestra was written in Paris.