“The Utah Symphony is hitting the road again and bringing several friends along,” writes Catherine Reese Newton in Sunday’s (8/27) Salt Lake Tribune. “Three years after playing at the state’s five national parks on the Mighty 5 tour, the orchestra and music director Thierry Fischer will give five outdoor performances at state or national parks and monuments. The Great American Road Trip will cover 1,200 miles over five days, Aug. 29 to Sept. 2. In addition to composer-instrumentalist Brent Michael Davids, soprano Abigail Rethwisch and baritone Andrew Paulson, the orchestra’s traveling companions include education personnel from the Natural History Museum of Utah, the University of Utah’s Consortium for Dark Sky Studies and the Colorado Plateau Dark Sky Cooperative. The organizations will collaborate on school presentations, postconcert star parties and other outreach activities…. [The tour] will take place while school is in session, so assemblies with a woodwind trio from the orchestra will be part of the mix.… At the tour’s last stop, Split Mountain in Dinosaur National Monument … storyteller Larry Cesspooch will tell the Ute Creation Story, and dancers and singers from the tribe will perform a Bear Dance.”
Posted August 28, 2017
Pictured: Children watch the Utah Symphony open its Mighty 5 Tour on August 12, 2014 at Teasdale Community Park in Teasdale, Utah. This year, the orchestra will give five outdoor performances from August 29 to September 2 at state or national parks and monuments.
