Brooklyn Rundfunk Orkestrata December 22, 2010

Brooklyn Rundfunk Orkestrata (BRO) is the highly anticipated new project from Ottawa native Peter Kiesewalter, the leader and brilliant musical mind behind Grammy-nominated opera revisionists East Village Opera Company. BRO’s debut album (to be released in early 2011) and live show is entitled The Hills Are Alive, a genre- and mind-bending adaptation of the songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s iconic musical The Sound Of Music. Initially conceived as a one-time-only concert, The Hills Are Alive caught the attention of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization (RHO) which granted BRO unprecedented artistic license with the songs. So impressed with BRO was RHO that the organizations invited the band to participate in the filmed bonus segments on the recently released Blu-ray DVD release of the 1965 Oscar-winning film version of The Sound Of Music. The Joe’s Pub show will feature a minimum of seven onstage performers blending rock, jazz, hip-hop, R&B, and country into a high-octane musical mix that will thrill audiences of all ages – Sound Of Music purists and skeptics alike.