Sat 10/19 @ 7:30PM
The Akron Symphony Orchestra and the Akron Symphony Chorus join forces to perform one of the staples of the symphonic repertoire, British composer Gustav Holst’s The Planets, a journey through the solar system with each of its seven movements devoted to a different planet. That was the number of planets identified at the time it was written and first performed in September 1918, two months before the end of the bloody, world-changing World War I, a time when maybe people were eager to contemplate what else was going on out there.
The program will also feature Charles Ives’ “The Unanswered Question,” first performed in 1948, although written 40 years earlier; Franz Liszt’s Les Préludes, debuted in 1854; and Gity Razaz’s Methuselah (In the Chains of Time), a 2023 co-commission with four other orchestras from the young Iranian-American woman composer.
The concert takes place as usual at E.J. Thomas Hall at the University of Akron. Go here for tickets.
akronsymphony.org/event/the-planets/
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