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Sponsored By
Dick & Betsy Frank
Carl Bender & Barbara Brugnaux
Celebrating Terre Haute’s total solar eclipse in April 2024, the THSO joins the community’s A Total Eclipse of the Haute collaborative event. The symphony will perform a wide variety of musical styles including selections from The Planets by Gustav Holst, John Williams favorites like E.T. and Star Wars, music from Apollo 13 by James Horner, the X-Files theme, and much more heavenly music. Audiences will enjoy their favorite space-inspired music complete with fully integrated video projections created by José Francisco Salgado for an out-of-this-world experience!
Artistic Director-Designate, Dr. Roger Kalia
This concert will feature newly appointed Artistic Director-Designate, Dr. Roger Kalia, as he shares the podium with Artistic Director Dr. David Bowden. Dr. Kalia guest conducted the THSO in November 2022, so we are thrilled to re-introduce him to the Terre Haute community! Dr. Kalia will take over as Artistic Director in July 2025 upon Dr. Bowden’s retirement.
José Francisco Salgado, PhD
José Francisco Salgado is an Emmy-nominated astronomer, experimental photographer, visual artist, and public speaker who creates multimedia works that communicate science in engaging ways. As the Executive Director and co-founder of KV 265, a non-profit science and arts education organization, Dr. Salgado collaborates with orchestras, composers, and musicians to present films that provoke curiosity and a sense of wonder about the Earth and the Universe. His Science & Symphony films have been presented in 260 concerts and 215 lectures reaching a combined audience of more than 480,000 people in 21 countries. Orchestras that have presented these works include the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, the San Francisco Symphony, New World Symphony, and the Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino. Learn more about José here!
We are excited to partner with Indiana State University and the John C. Hook Observatory to offer concert attendees the opportunity to view celestial objects through telescopes that will be set up outside in the plaza directly in front of Tilson Auditorium. The Observatory will be set up starting at 4pm to view the Sun and after the concert (around 9:30pm) to view the Moon, stars, and planets until 11pm.
Supper at the Symphony
Join us for a three-course meal prior to the concert! Supper at the Symphony is served at 5:30pm in the McKee Family Heritage Ballroom, right next door to Tilson Auditorium in Tirey Hall on the campus of Indiana State University. Reservations are only $25. Learn more by clicking below!
Concert Conversations
Listen to Artistic Director, Dr. David Bowden, discuss the repertoire performed on this concert and interview our guest artists during Concert Conversations in the McKee Family Heritage Ballroom in Tirey Hall on the campus of Indiana State University before the concert at 6:45pm. FREE to all concert ticket holders!