Kenneth Kiesler, music director
Oriol Sans, conductor

Pre-concert lecture at 7:15 PM in the lower lobby.

This concert will open with Beethoven’s Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus, an allegorical ballet based on the Greek myth of the spirit who refined humans through art and knowledge. Both University Orchestras will be taking the stage at Hill Auditorium to perform Richard Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra, a massive tone poem ¨freely based¨ on one of Nietzsche’s most humanistic works, and made popular from the soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. The NASA recordings of astronaut Ed White, seduced by the vastness and mystery of space, is one of the elements composer Mason Bates uses in his work The B-Sides.

PROGRAM: Beethoven- The Creatures of Prometheus Overture; Bates- The B-sides; Strauss- Also Sprach Zarathustra