Boston Landmarks
Orchestra | Christopher Wilkins, conductor
In partnership with the Museum of Science’s Charles Hayden Planetarium
Prelude performance: Young Artists from Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI)
perform wind and brass chamber music.
John Adams, Short
Ride in a Fast Machine
Leroy Anderson, Summer Skies
Richard Strauss, Thus Spake Zarathustra
Joaquín Rodrigo, In Search of the Beyond
John Williams, Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Philip Glass, Icarus at the Edge of Time (excerpt)
A celebration in
music and live video of the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing
with the Museum of Science and the Boston Landmarks Orchestra. For one night
only, this family-friendly evening honors the historic event by
pairing custom visuals produced by the Charles Hayden Planetarium with symphonic
music inspired by the moon and outer space.
John Adams’ sonic ball-of-fire launches a program that features two intensely
vibrant film scores alongside Leroy Anderson’s summer reverie composed for
Arthur Fiedler. Thus Spake Zarathustra—which
traces the spiritual evolution of mankind—opens with one of the most
recognizable moments in all of music. It was the soundtrack for the opening
minutes of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A
Space Odyssey.
Rain Date: Thursday, July 18, 2019. If it rains on July 18 as well, the concert
will be held at First Church in Cambridge 11 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138.
