Legendary Electric Light Orchestra Former Members
of ELO and ELO Part II 
together with Czech National Symphonic Orchestra!

Due to the big interest in tickets on Electric Light Orchestra Former Members’s concert, there has been added the second one performance:  23. 11. at 4 p.m.

It means, that there are now all price category tickets on sale.
We have still last tickets for evening concert at 7 p.m.

The band, which John Lennon described in 1979: „If THE BEATLES had still exist, we would play music just like that.“

Any other band before ELO didn’t achieve such a perfect connection of classical music and rock...

Outstanding instrumentation and harmony of sound

Legendary Electric Light Orchestra is coming back on a stage in great, unique style and what is more to the accompaniment of Czech National Symphonic Orchestra!

Electric Light Orchestra is an iconic British rock band, which has achieved the biggest popularity in 70-s and 80-s XX century. The band was formed on the beggining of 70-s in Birmingham by members of a group The Move: Jeff Lynne, Roy Wood and Bev Bevan. Their motivation was to create something completely new. At this time all bands were playing on rock instruments, sometimes also on brass instruments, but the idea of using also strings and piano – seemed to be fresh and unusual! In 70-s, recording studios were full of wild music experiments, what helped Roy Wood to take advantage of his multiinstrumentalist abilities. On the four songs of the first ELO’s album, Wood was playing all the instruments: brass or strings in his own.

Electric Light Orchestra is an experimental rock and symphonic orchestra. Unconventionalism of ELO was based on the combination of untypical instruments. In addition to rock instrumentation, musicians started to use also classic stringed instruments (cello, violin), oboe, clarinet, piano and some folk instruments. The music of ELO is qualified as classical and progressive rock. Their works mix the Beatles pop, a symphonic rock and classical music. Additional specific element was characteristic voice of ELO’s original vocalist, Jeff Lynne: high, clear and brassy.

Any other band before ELO didn’t achieve such a perfect connection of classical music and rock. The biggest advantage of ELO is an outstanding instrumentation and harmony of sound, and also diversity of their music. The band has recorded 12 studio albums, got 9 gold, platinum and multiplatinum records.

In November, you will have an unrepeatable occasion to listen alive in Prague the biggest hits of ELO: Can't Get It Out of My Head, Rock'n'roll Is King, Hold On Tight, Here is the news or cover of  popular Chuck Berry's Roll Over Beethoven. Besides „old acquaintances“ – musicians from original band personnel: the violonist Mike Kaminski, bass player Kelly Groucutt and conductor Louis Clark will perform also another outstanding musicians with a shorter experience in ELO: guitarist Phil Bates, percussionist Gordon Townsend and talented vocalist and composer Eric Troyer.

All to the accompaniment of irreplaceable Czech National Symphonic Orchestra!
No doubt, you can prepare yourself for energetic performance and musical experience of the best quality!

Czech National Symphonic Orchestra (ČNSO)

Nowadays ČNSO is between the best Czech ensembles and the most overextended orchestras in Europe. Their domestic concerts in Prague and on tours abroad are extremely popular. Orchestra, together with their own record studio in Praha Hostivař attracts more and more worldly meaningful  musical and cinematic productions. The principal conductor of ČNSO, Maestro Libor Pešek, was nominated in 2007, since this time the ensemble has been continuing the high level of their performances – well known from former seasons. Since the 2007/2008 season ČNSO has been performing in Smetanová síň, in Obecní dům, where the capacity is big enough and acoustic is excellent.                                                                                                                   
Records of Orchestra are sold in USA and Japan, the ensemble has played succesful tours in Great Britain and Ireland, France, Spain, Portugaly, Japan and Mexic. The orchestra has its own background, above-mentioned recording studio and their pride are a few gold CDs for solding more than 30 000 records, Gustav Mahler’s  prize for interpretation of his works, and especially prestigious contract with IMG Artists London Agency. Next of their meaningful achievments is long-term record project in cooperation with Victor Entertainment publisher from Tokio, which allowed to publish 24 CDs and 8x video DVD so far.
Czech National Symphonic Orchestra conducted by Marcello Rota, during last years accompanied Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli on his tour in 33 European capitals and musical centres. Cooperation with such artist as Andrea Bocelli proves the quality of Czech National Symphonic Orchestra.