Posted Sunday (9/22) at the Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, Arizona) is a preview by Charles Spining of the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra’s season-opening concert on September 27 at North Arizona University’s Ardrey Memorial Auditorium. Titled “Music of the Spheres,” it will be “a good example of the adventurous and innovative programming by Artistic Director and Conductor Elizabeth Schulze that has become a trademark of her tenure at the helm of the venerable Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra.” In addition to Holst’s The Planets and Carl Nielsen’s Helios Overture, the program will include Pluto—a work from 1997 by Margaret Brouwer—and an orchestral transcription of Debussy’s Clair de Lune. “Spectacular projected visual images assembled by the ‘outer space’ resources of Flagstaff’s own Lowell Observatory will enhance music imagery.” The Children’s Chorale of Flagstaff will perform in the Holst and Brouwer works, as well as in “an arranged medley of Julie Gold’s ‘From a Distance’ and John Lennon’s ‘Imagine.’ ” The Flagstaff Symphony’s season will continue with concerts in October, December, January, March, and April.
Posted September 23, 2013
