Live Narrated interactive show – What will you find in one of Hubble’s deepest views of our universe yet?

$5 - Adult
$3 - Child

Pianist Gayle Martin will perform Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16 by Edvard Grieg. She achieved international prominence as the sole American laureate of the sixth International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow. Notable appearances include Houston Symphony, Moscow Radio Philharmonic, Maracaibo Symphony, Denver Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, among many others.
She has toured throughout South America including an engagement at
Teatro Colón with Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Argentina.

This concert will also feature a performance of the winning piece from the Brazosport Symphony Orchestra Composition Competition and will showcase several of the soloists within the orchestra. The concert will close with Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol.

Gayle Martin's appearance is made possible by a generous donation from Forrest and Carole Mobley.

Jazz and classical saxman, Jeff Kashiwa has nine solo CD’s and appearances with The Rippingtons and The Sax Pack. He joins Brazosport Symphony Orchestra in Nelson Riddle arrangements of Gershwin’s Someone to Watch Over Me Johnny Mercer’s Too Marvelous for Words and Temptation from the Charlie Parker songbook.

As promised, this is an INTERACTIVE! concert.

We will open with Bernstein’s Overture to Candide and Mozart’s Oboe Concerto with principal Annette Garrett alongside Jeff on a Unique Electronic Wind Instrument After a quick lesson, volunteers from the audience will be chosen to conduct BSO.

A Young Melody Composer contest launches in local schools this fall, with the melodies of 2 winners to be combined by local composer and conducted by the winners and Mr. Casey. The audience joins in on the finale to Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture.

From storms that would swallow Earth raging on Jupiter to the icy realms of comets, this show uses the revolutionary discoveries of space missions to give a three-dimensional journey through the worlds of our outer solar system.

This presentation is narrated by Star Trek's John Billingsley.

The finale of the BSO’s season will feature the finalists from the Whit Phillips Young Artist Competition. In addition to performing solos, these students will also have an opportunity to perform on the second half of the concert with the orchestra. This portion of the concert will feature music with a space theme including: Jupiter and Mars from The Planets by Holst, Space Oddity (Bowie/Charvat), and a Star Wars Medley (Williams).