“Astronaut Anne McClain fondly remembers peering out the expansive bay windows of the International Space Station’s Cupola and watching the Earth fly by below her while she played music from the iPod that had to be shuttled to her on a different launch,” writes Jared Brown in Sunday’s (11/17) Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA). “ ‘You have this amazing 360-degree view,’ said McClain, a 1997 Gonzaga Prep graduate and U.S. Army lieutenant colonel…. Two Spokane Symphony shows … over the weekend—where three scenic space films by astronomer and experimental photographer Dr. José Francisco Salgado played during space-themed orchestral music—brought people from McClain’s hometown about as close to her experience as possible without donning flight suits of their own…. The first film shown pieced together Salgado’s own time-lapse footage of the moon from around the globe set to [Debussy’s] ‘Clair de lune.’ … The next film … showed different views from the space station as it rotated around the planet while the symphony played ‘Un bal’ from [Berlioz’s] ‘Symphonie fantastique.’ … The third film, ‘The Planets,’ set to the orchestral suite of the same name composed by Gustav Holst, was a collection of shorter films depicting the other seven planets.”
Posted November 18, 2019
In photo: Astronaut Anne McClain speaks onstage during the Spokane Symphony’s “50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing,” conducted by Roger Kalia on November 17. McClain was a guest speaker at the concert, along with astronomer and photographer José Francisco Salgado. Photo by Libby Kamrowski / The Spokesman-Review
