An Odyssey into Space on Saturday Evening

Review of the Virginia Symphony on Sat. 2/29/20
by Kip Tabb/20

Music has a transformative power, carrying within its notes the ability to transport us to remarkable places within our memories.
For some—a bit older perhaps—the William Tell Overture inevitably leads to a hardy “Heigh Ho, Silver!” When the first notes of John Williams “Theme from Star Wars” is struck suddenly you’re in a galaxy a long long time ago.
Conductor Adam Turner opened the Virginia Symphony’s performance at First Flight High School on Saturday night with Richard Strauss’ “Also Sprach Zarathustra.”
From the first notes of that amazing full-throated fanfare, with the primal pounding of the timpani, the opening sequence of “2001 A Space Odyssey” becomes real once again. It is the moment the predecessor to humanity discovers a an intact femur, realizes its horrific power as a weapon and the the world is changed.

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