Cosmic!

It's time to blast off into the cosmos with the Nashville Symphony as they take you on a celestial adventure with Gustav Holst's enduringly popular The Planets. But before the main event, the out-of-this-world talents of saxophonist Timothy McAllister will be on show in the world premiere of James Lee III's Saxophone Concerto!

The Planets

Completed between 1914 and 1916, The Planets is by far the most popular of Holst's works (a fact that troubled him in later life). Based not around the Roman Gods as is easily assumed, each planet's character and sound comes from Astrology, an idea that fascinated Holst at the time. Each movement seeks to evoke the emotion and passion that each planet elicits in us.