The Planets: The Orchestra’s Guide to the Galaxy

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The Peristyle, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
March 23, 2024
8:00 pm
Not Funded by New Music USA

In the spring of 2024, Toledo will be in the direct viewing path of a total solar eclipse. To celebrate this phenomenon, the Toledo Symphony has commissioned ADJ•ective New Music – a composers’ collective with ties to Toledo – to compose a suite of new planets. Paired with Gustav Holst’s Planets with stunning visuals from KV 265, this program explores both the scientific mysteries of space and our planets and the human imagination of what lies beyond our world.

ADJ•ective New Music composers: Cynthia Van Maanen, Hong-Da Chin, Andrea Reinkemeyer, Andrew Martin Smith, Anne Neikirk, Alex Temple, Daijana Wallace, Robert McClure, and Jamie Leigh Sampson

Choral performance support provided by the Rita Barbour Kern Foundation.

This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.