The Planets

In April, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra celebrates the cosmos with a stellar program featuring four pieces inspired by different aspects of the celestial. Joyce Yang returns performing Jonathan Leshnoffs KSO co-commissioned Piano Concerto, hailed as a soulful piano concerto [that] enthralls (BBC Music Magazine). The evening culminates with Gustav Holsts evocative and awe-inspiring The Planets. Cosmos Festival is aptly named for the KSOs April On Februarys MoxCar Marketing + Communications Masterworks Series program, and Chamber Classics Series concerts happening within five days of one another. The KSO celebrates how humans relate to their place in the universe-spiritually and physically-through specially programmed works inspired by the cosmos. Aram Demirjian, conductor Joyce Yang, piano Women of the Knoxville Choral Society WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Overture to The Magic Flute JONATHAN LESHNOFF: Piano Concerto CHARLES IVES: The Unanswered Question GUSTAV HOLST: The Planets