Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra:
Our World and Beyond
Christopher Hill, Music Director
Thomas Heuser, Guest Conductor
For the final performance of the Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra's 2009+2010 season, our musical journey travels Our World and Beyond.
We begin earthbound, with modern American composer John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine. A minimalist masterpiece composed in 1986 for the Great Woods Festival in Mansfield, Massachusetts, this "joyfully exuberant" piece with increasingly layered textures and constantly building climax serves as the perfect countdown for our launch into the great beyond. Once in orbit we survey the heavens featuring a special multimedia presentation with Gustav Holst's masterwork The Planets. Premiered in 1918, the orchestral suite presents seven movements each representing a planet in our solar system: 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.
PROGRAM:
Adams · Short Ride in a Fast MachineHaydn · Symphony No. 22 "The Philosopher"
Holst · The Planets
Visit the PSO web site for program notes and additional information.
TICKETS:
General: $18Senior: $16 (65 and over)
Student: $8 (college and under)