Classics No. 7 - New Worlds

O. Messiaen, L’Ascension
E. Bloch, Macbeth, Interludes from Acts 1 and 3
S. Rachmaninoff, The Isle of the Dead
G. Holst, The Planets

The trip of a lifetime: from Messiaen’s heavenly music for winds we descend into the world of human tragedy with Bloch’s dramatic and tremendously powerful masterpiece Macbeth. We descend even further with Rachmaninoff’s moody underworld tone poem The Isle of the Dead before ascending to the ultimate heights of Holst’s “The Planets” (with an original multimedia presentation featuring photos by NASA).
 
“The wondrous views of other worlds that we have gained from 40 years of visiting them with robotic spacecraft inspire artists, as well as scientists.”
Blaine Baggett, Jet Propulsion Laboratory