James Horner | Apollo 13 Suite (5’)
Manuel María Ponce Cuéllar | Concierto del Sur para Guitarra (23’)**
Intermission
Gustav Holst | The Planets, Op. 32 (50’)
Running time with intermission is 100 minutes
Let us be your guide for this fantastical afternoon. We start with the Apollo 13 Suite. Then, we will be transported by our guest artist Daniel Bolshoy to Andalusia via Ponce's Concierto del Sur para Guitarra. Finally, The Planets with Adrian Wyard's The Planets Live visual accompaniment featuring original animations and NASA media.
Experience a performance designed to have you seeing stars!
Tickets start at just $15. Check out our ticket discounts page for information on FREE Orchestra for All tickets.
Holst’s The Planets has a GIANT instrumentation with 107 orchestra musicians including some rarities like the bass oboe and alto flute. Plus there is an offstage treble choir.
Each movement of The Planets is named after a planet in the solar system and reflects its astrological character, as described by Holst: “Mars, the Bringer of War”, “Venus, the Bringer of Peace”, “Mercury, the Winged Messenger”, “Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity”, “Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age”, “Uranus, the Magician”, “Neptune, the Mystic".
After its debut in 1918, Gustav Holst’s seven-movement orchestral suite The Planets became an international phenomenon.
Manuel Ponce learned his musical notes before learning the letters of the alphabet. He had an early interest in composition, and he wrote La Marcha del Sarampion (March of the Measles) at age 9 when he got sick with the disease.
Ponce was the first Mexican composer to project popular music onto the world stage: Estrellita, for example, has been part of the repertoire of the main orchestras of the world and countless singers.
In 2023, Apollo 13 was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.”
WATCH 'The Planets' with live visual accompaniment - highlights
WATCH Concierto del Sur, Ponce — Mabel Millán y ORTVE
WATCH NASA's Perseverance Rover Captures the Sounds of Mars
WATCH NASA’s Perseverance Rover Hears Ingenuity Mars Helicopter in Flight
WATCH Apollo 13 at The Pickford after our concert! More information to come.
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*All programs subject to change
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