September 24, 2007
Calling its October 14 and 16 season debut program Reaching the Outer Limits, Music Director Barry Jekowsky and the California Symphony will be going where few orchestras have ever ventured before: taking concert-goers on an awe-inspiring journey into outer space, piloted by the artistic vision of Adler Planetarium astronomer and graphics artist Dr. Jose Francisco Salgado and narrated by award-winning Bay Area science educator and author Andrew Fraknoi.
The unprecedented classical music event will feature a soaring presentation of Gustav Holst’s The Planets Op. 32 performed live to the critically-acclaimed GUSTAV HOLSTs THE PLANETS suite of seven high-definition videos conceived and directed by Salgado of the nation’s oldest planetarium, located in Chicago.
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