Amanda Lee Falkenberg: The Moons Symphony
London Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop, London Voices, Ben Parry
This ambitious project is brought to life by a sizzling LSO and gutsy London Voices. The seven movements – each depicting a moon in our solar system – owe a significant debt to film composers...
Amanda Lee Falkenberg: The Moons Symphony
London Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop, London Voices, Ben Parry
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This ambitious project is brought to life by a sizzling LSO and gutsy London Voices. The seven movements – each depicting a moon in our solar system – owe a significant debt to film composers...
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International award-winning composer, Amanda Lee Falkenberg has composed a dynamic new work that merges music and science. The seven-movement symphony dramatizes past, present and future moon explorations, and highlights discoveries that have been made in our search for other worlds that could possibly sustain life. Through the persuasive and powerful forces of music, the symphony offers Earthlings a chance to contemplate who and where we are in the universe. In 42 minutes they will be taken on an emotional journey, marveling at the wonders of these moons, the beauty of our planet, and possibly even experience their own perspective shift as crew-mates aboard this spaceship we cruise, Earth. This is the story of THE MOONS SYMPHONY.
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- Daniel Koek (tenor), Leo Jemison (soprano)
- London Symphony Orchestra, London Voices
- Marin Alsop, Ben Parry
- Amanda Lee Falkenberg
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Marin Alsop, Ben Parry
- Nicole Stott
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Marin Alsop, Ben Parry
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December 2022
This ambitious project is brought to life by a sizzling LSO and gutsy London Voices. The seven movements – each depicting a moon in our solar system – owe a significant debt to film composers John Williams, Howard Shore et al. But taken in the right spirit, this is musical painting on an infectiously grand scale.