Music of the Spheres with the Las Vegas Philharmonic

Written by Robert LaGrone


Music Of The Spheres with The Las Vegas Philharmonic Read Jetsetters Magazine at www.jetsettersmagazine.com Read this entire feature free with photos at: http://www.jetsettersmagazine.com/archive/jetezine/classic/vegas04/sphere/sphere.html

Composers have long describedrepparttar natural world in music: Beethoven wrote his sensual “Pastoral” Symphony, Stravinskyrepparttar 109733 tempestuous “Rite of Spring,” Led Zeppelinrepparttar 109734 “Misty Mountain Hop.” (You may have different examples.) Few, however, can surpass Gustav Holst’s spectacular suite, The Planets, performed tonight byrepparttar 109735 Las Vegas Philharmonic.

Excludingrepparttar 109736 earth, and written before Pluto was designatedrepparttar 109737 ninth planet, this work comprises seven movements describingrepparttar 109738 seven other known planets as they relate to classical mythology. Each movement is distinct in style and, according torepparttar 109739 composer, not related torepparttar 109740 others musically. However,repparttar 109741 chosen sequence makes for a very moving and unique musical experience.

First things first, of course. Great orchestral performances normally start with overtures, and English composer William Walton’s Johannesburg Festival Overture set a lively, upbeat tone. Written forrepparttar 109742 South African capital’s seventieth anniversary in 1956,repparttar 109743 piece is full of melodic European optimism, flavored inrepparttar 109744 middle with a pulsating percussion passage drawn from traditional Zulu music.

Star Trek In Flames – No Phoenix In Sight

Written by Joshua Tyler


As a recovering Trekker, I miss good space science fiction inrepparttar theater. I’d hoped Chronicles of Riddick might be some sort of revival of it atrepparttar 109732 movies, but apparently I’mrepparttar 109733 only one who doesn’t hate it. Before that,repparttar 109734 trailers for Star Trek: Nemesis hinted that it might be at last something different, but as it turns out Berman left most ofrepparttar 109735 Enterprise crew back at space dock. Seriously, did you seerepparttar 109736 movie? It’s like they spentrepparttar 109737 entire budget on CGI sets and didn’t have enough money to hire extras to look like they were runningrepparttar 109738 ship. I’m running out of places to turn.

In fact, I’m kind of in a place where I believe it’s time for Star Trek to simply go away for awhile. I’d thought Paramount agreed last week when news leaked out that they were firmly committed to halting all future Star Trek projects for a couple of years. But that worm Berman couldn’t leave it alone, and has since squirmed his way intorepparttar 109739 ears of Paramount execs and convinced them to give him another shot withrepparttar 109740 pretty well sunk franchise. What form that chance will take is anyone’s guess, but with Berman atrepparttar 109741 helm you can be sure it’ll suck. At best it’ll be just another horrible movie, at worst it’ll make somehow manage to make some money and keep Rick “The Federation Con Man” Berman in charge. Not that any of this is a revelation. It’s all been said a hundred times before.

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