Fire & Light | Southwest Michigan Symphony Orch

Pre-concert conversation 3:00pm

Jose Francisco Salgado, Lake Michigan Youth Orchestra

Two thematically-related short pieces by renowned Canadian composer John Estacio will be showcased as the backdrop to spectacular video depicting the origin and formation of the awe-inspiring light display we call the aurora borealis. Salgado’s film features NASA’s latest cutting-edge images of the sun, astronaut photography of the auroras as well as the filmmaker’s photography shot on location in Yellowknife, Canada.

The Lake Michigan Youth Orchestra joins the SMSO in a performance of Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture.

Program:

Mendelssohn, Hebrides Overture (Fingal’s Cave)
Side-by-side with LMYO

John Estacio, Aurora Diptych: Solaris and Borealis
Film by José Francisco Salgado, PhD

Brahms, Symphony No. 2 in D Major