All The Right Notes

Take Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, add the personality and passion of the Richmond Symphony’s Music Director Steven Smith, and mix well with leaders and managers from an organization interested in creativity and change. Oh, and don’t forget a splash of design and facilitation support from Floricane.

These are the ingredients for a new collaboration designed to create a powerful and visceral creative experience for organizations and teams.

Participants and performers will sit elbow-to-elbow on stage in the historic Carpenter Theatre at CenterStage during the entire experience. Facilitated discussion about organizational culture and business realities will blend into an appreciative inquiry of classical music and the modern symphony. Beethoven’s Fifth will be put into historic and creative context.

The lights will dim...

The choice of Beethoven’s powerful Fifth is no accident. The Fifth represents a sense of a heroic life struggle, and emerged over four of the most productive years of Beethoven’s career. It’s not a serious leap from there to the intensity of business in transition, or a team of leaders exploring reinvention and change.

The idea of helping a group hear one of the most familiar pieces of music in history in a new way is exciting. Even more exciting is the opportunity of using Beethoven’s Fifth, and the story of its creation, as a metaphor for creativity, challenge and change – and as a vehicle for self-examination for as many as 100 leaders at a time.

At the end of March, the Richmond Symphony and Floricane will facilitate, examine and perform Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony as part of a unique experience for one such organization. We’ll have more details as the date nears, but we can say with some confidence – it’s going to be an intense experience.

Take Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, add the personality and passion of the Richmond Symphony’s Music Director Steven Smith, and mix well with leaders and managers from an organization interested in creativity and change. Oh, and don’t forget a splash of design and facilitation support from Floricane.

These are the ingredients for a new collaboration designed to create a powerful and visceral creative experience for organizations and teams.

Participants and performers will sit elbow-to-elbow on stage in the historic Carpenter Theatre at CenterStage during the entire experience. Facilitated discussion about organizational culture and business realities will blend into an appreciative inquiry of classical music and the modern symphony. Beethoven’s Fifth will be put into historic and creative context.

The lights will dim...

The choice of Beethoven’s powerful Fifth is no accident. The Fifth represents a sense of a heroic life struggle, and emerged over four of the most productive years of Beethoven’s career. It’s not a serious leap from there to the intensity of business in transition, or a team of leaders exploring reinvention and change.

The idea of helping a group hear one of the most familiar pieces of music in history in a new way is exciting. Even more exciting is the opportunity of using Beethoven’s Fifth, and the story of its creation, as a metaphor for creativity, challenge and change – and as a vehicle for self-examination for as many as 100 leaders at a time.

At the end of March, the Richmond Symphony and Floricane will facilitate, examine and perform Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony as part of a unique experience for one such organization. We’ll have more details as the date nears, but we can say with some confidence – it’s going to be an intense experience.