Fire & Light | Southwest Michigan Symphony Orch
Sun, March 19, 2017 @ 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm
Pre-concert conversation 3:00pm
Jose Francisco Salgado, Lake Michigan Youth Orchestra
Two thematically-related short pieces by renowned Canadian composer John Estacio will be showcased as the backdrop to spectacular video depicting the origin and formation of the awe-inspiring light display we call the aurora borealis. Salgado’s film features NASA’s latest cutting-edge images of the sun, astronaut photography of the auroras as well as the filmmaker’s photography shot on location in Yellowknife, Canada.
The Lake Michigan Youth Orchestra joins the SMSO in a performance of Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture.
Program:
Mendelssohn, Hebrides Overture (Fingal’s Cave)
Side-by-side with LMYO
John Estacio, Aurora Diptych: Solaris and Borealis
Film by José Francisco Salgado, PhD
Brahms, Symphony No. 2 in D Major
