ASU Symphony Orchestra: Earth on Fire

As part of the prestigious ASU Visiting Quartet Residency Program, the critically acclaimed string quartet Brooklyn Rider joins the ASU Symphony Orchestra in a rich tapestry of musical selections exploring major issues facing a global, interconnected society on a warming planet. With its intrepid musical appetite, the quartet will act as leaders, soloists, and collaborators throughout the evening on this fascinating and thought-provoking musical journey. Works by Ruth Crawford Seeger, Michael Abels, Gabriela Lena Frank and others.

The ASU Gammage lobby will be open at 6:00 p.m. to all ticket holders to experience exhibits and art displays on topics of climate change and sustainability by ASU faculty and students from Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, ASU School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures, ASU Landscape Architecture, Urban Design and Environmental Design, The Design School, School of Molecular Science, School of Art.

Program:
Ruth Crawford Seeger: Rissolty Rossolty
Colin Jacobsen: A Short While To Be Here… (based on American Folk Songs as collected and transcribed by Ruth Crawford Seeger)
Michael Abels: Global Warming
Osvaldo Golijov: Tenebrae for string quartet (Brooklyn Rider)
Gabriela Lena Frank: Contested Eden
Siamak Aghaei/Colin Jacobsen: Ascending Bird: Introduction and Dance for Orchestra, (arr. for full orchestra by Michael P. Atkinson)

ASU faculty, staff and students eligible for complimentary tickets through the ASU Gammage box office.