April 30, 2026 – The Symphony of the Hills presents the final concert in the 2025-26 season, A Time to Soar – The Planets, on Thursday, April 30 at 7 pm.
Rod Leonard, bass trombone soloist
Physics Professor Kim Arvidsson, PhD, guest speaker
The concert opens with the brilliant Strauss fanfare, made famous as the opening theme for the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey. We feature our symphony bass trombonist, Rod Leonard playing Ian Deterling’s recently revised Concerto for Bass Trombone, a colorful work which fully expresses our orchestra’s amazing talent and diversity. Our grand finale will be a multi-media presentation of Gustav Holst’s groundbreaking work, The Planets, with an astrophysicist providing a concert introduction, and a wordless women’s chorus echoing the music of the spheres.
Strauss – Also Sprach Zarathustra (Prelude)
Ian Deterling – Bass Trombone Concerto No. 1 in D Minor “Quest”
-Rod Leonard, bass trombone
Holst – The Planets – With Women’s Choir
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