Rod Leonard, bass trombone soloist

Professor Kim Arvidsson, guest speaker

The concert opens with the brilliant Strauss fanfare, made famous as the opening theme for the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey. We feature our symphony bass trombonist, Rod Leonard playing Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Concerto for Bass Trombone, a colorful work which fully expresses our orchestra’s amazing talent and diversity. Our grand finale will be a multi-media presentation of Gustav Holst’s groundbreaking work, The Planets, with an astrophysicist providing a concert introduction, and a wordless women’s chorus echoing the music of the spheres.