Heavenly Music
October 7, 2005
No matter that they were born in different centuries, an ocean apart,
to pursue different professions. Gustav Holst would have liked Paul Lewis.
Biographer Ian Lace wrote that the English composer of such disparate
works as “Onward, Christian Soldiers” and “Bring us
in Good Ale” was a man who “rejoiced in ideas he found fantastic
or humorous. He enjoyed a good laugh.” He would have fit right in
with Mr. Lewis, UT’s expert on all things astronomical. As it turns
out, the two will meet, in a fashion, on October 12. That evening members
of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will visit the Farragut Library to
offer an informal sampling of Holst’s famous work “The Planets,”
with Mr. Lewis giving a short introduction. The program begins at 7:00
p.m. and is part of the KSO’s Books, Bach and Beyond Concert
Preview series. The orchestra will perform the piece in full concert
October 20-21.
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