The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra will launch a three-week festival of music inspired by space exploration on January 22, with performances of three works that were recorded on a 1977 time capsule on board NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2, known as the Voyager Golden Record. Music Director Krzysztof Urbanski and the ISO will perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, arias from Mozart’s The Magic Flute, and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. Pre-concert activities will include ISO musicians performing chamber works from the Voyager Golden Record and NASA interactive exhibits. Later festival performances will include Holst’s The Planets, Hindemith’s Die Harmonie der Welt Symphony, Ligeti’s Atmosphères, “Song to the Evening Star” from Wagner’s Tannhäuser, and Johann Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra. Speakers at the festival will include David Wolf, an astronaut and scientist in residence at the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis; and Indianapolis native Dan Dumbacher, former Deputy Associate Administrator of NASA’s Human Exploration Operations Mission Directorate.
Posted January 20, 2016
