Name: Holst The Planets: An HD Odyssey
Start: 2025-03-27T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-03-30T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Benaroya Hall

Admin

Seattle Symphony

Conductor

Xian Zhang

Instrumentalist

Steven Banks

Saxophone

Others

Seattle Symphony Chorale

Orchestra

Holst The Planets: An HD Odyssey

Seattle

United States

Benaroya Hall

S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium

Holst The Planets: An HD Odyssey: Diaspora, Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra Childs, B. (+1 More)

Public

Concert

Diaspora

The Planets

Rahul Solomon

Approved

Gustav Holst, a keen student of astrology, seized on the different characters assigned to our planets to compose his masterpiece. Each planet brings different feelings and startling effects, from Mars’ shattering depiction of war to Neptune as it drifts away into space and ethereal voices fade into silence. Breathtaking high-definition imagery from NASA showcases our solar system’s heavenly bodies. Xian Zhang makes a welcome return to conduct, and inspirational soloist Steven Banks makes his Seattle Symphony debut in Diaspora — a saxophone concerto written for him by American composer Billy Childs, in which the past, present and future of the Black experience serve as inspiration.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Instrumentation

Ensemble