Holst – The Planets
Join the Reading Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Constantine, Conductor and special guest Lisa Pegher, for Holst: The Planets.
Holst’s The Planets is colorful, emotional, and full of movement exactly what you’d expect from a trip through the galaxies and beyond. Written between 1914-1916, The Planets represents all the known planets (except Earth) and their corresponding astrological characters.
You will be in awe as percussion soloist Lisa Pegher commands the entire stage and an array of percussion instruments in Joseph Schwantner’s Percussion Concerto. Pegher was called “the future of percussion” by the Pittsburgh Post Gazzette, her technique, power, and musicianship will have you talking about this evening for a long time.
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Andrew Constantine, Conductor
Lisa Pegher, Percussion
Rossini – La Gazza Ladra Overture
Joseph Schwantner – Concerto for Percussion
Holst – The Planets
Lisa Pegher
Lisa Pegher is an American solo percussionist and drummer. In her International career she has performed throughout the world as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. She is known for pioneering percussion as a solo instrument within the orchestral realm and beyond, making it her life’s work to present percussion to larger audiences by commissioning, collaborating, and creating new works and performances that bring percussion to the front of the stage.
Gustav Holst: The Planets
The Planets, composed between 1914 and 1916, is a suite of seven movements. Holst’s starting point for the music was the astrological character of each planet, though his interest in astrology went no deeper than its musical suggestiveness. His daughter wrote that once the underlying idea had been formulated ‘he let the music have its way with him’. There was, therefore, no programme for the suite, and the composer himself pointed out that it has no connection with the deities of classical mythology. The many clues to the meaning of the music are the subjects of the individual movements. (Read More)
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