Cosmos Festival 1

The Knoxville Symphony Orchestras Cosmos Festival kicks off with a homage to NASAs Golden Record. The KSO brings to life three orchestral works found floating in the depths of space on NASAs Voyager spacecraft-Beethovens Fifth Symphony and String Quartet No. 13, and Bachs Brandenburg Concerto No. 2. Rounding out the program is Mozarts Jupiter Symphony. Cosmos Festival is aptly named for the KSOs April Moxley Carmichael Masterworks Series 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 NOKUTHULA NGWENYAMA: Primal Message JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, Mvt. I LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 5, Mvt. I Allegro con brio LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No. 13, Mvt. V Cavatina WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Symphony No. 41 (Jupiter)