Red Balloon Series: Moonrise and Aurora

MOONRISE AND AURORA 30 AUGUST 2019 ESPLANADE CONCERT HALL ROBIN FOUNTAIN, CONDUCTOR JOSÉ FRANCISCO SALGADO, PRESENTER

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JOSÉ FRANCISCO SALGADO, PRESENTER José Francisco Salgado is an Emmy-nominated astronomer, experimental photographer, visual artist, and public speaker. 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 more than 200 concerts and 150 lectures with a combined audience of 400,000 in 18 countries.

His first two films were named by the International Astronomical Union and UNESCO as Special Projects for the International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009). As a photographer, Salgado has visited more than 30 scientific sites in remote places including the Atacama Desert, the French Pyrenees, and the South African Karoo, and has contributed visuals to the History, Discovery, BBC, and National Geographic channels.

ROBIN FOUNTAIN, CONDUCTOR Music Director of the Southwest Michigan Symphony and Professor of Conducting at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, Robin Fountain’s diverse experience ranges from opera to contemporary pops to the masterworks. Recent productions have included Bernstein’s monumental Mass, Mark Adamo’s Little Women, Mozart’s Così fan tutte, and Lucy Simon’s A Secret Garden. His guest conducting engagements have taken him to Russia, Poland and Spain, as well as throughout the US. For his distinguished leadership of the Blair School of Music’s orchestra program, he has won both the Madison Sarratt Award for Excellence and the Blair School of Music’s Faculty Excellence Award.

SINGAPORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Since its founding in 1979, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO) has been Singapore’s flagship orchestra, touching lives through classical music and providing the heartbeat of the cultural scene in the cosmopolitan city-state. In addition to its subscription series concerts, the orchestra is well-loved for its outdoor and community appearances, and its significant role educating the young people of Singapore. The SSO has also earned an international reputation for its orchestral virtuosity, having garnered sterling reviews for its overseas tours and many successful recordings. sso.org.sg/about/singapore-symphony-orchestra

Moonrise A Science & Symphony Film

by José Francisco Salgado Moonrise explores mankind’s eternal fascination with the Moon, Earth’s only natural satellite. Following the character and tempo of the two beautiful orchestral suites from Daphnis and Chloé by Maurice Ravel, this film takes the audience on a journey through history and space. As it has for ages, the Moon stands at the intersection of art and science, motivating scientists, guiding explorers, inspiring artists and writers, and fascinating all who see it. The film features lunar images and time-lapse photography, historical illustrations, as well as NASA scientific visualizations.

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Aurora Triptych Solaris, Borealis, and Wondrous Light Using three thematically-related short pieces by renowned Canadian composer John Estacio, astronomer José Francisco Salgado has produced a film that depicts the origin and formation of the awe-inspiring light display we call the aurora borealis. This work features NASA’s latest cutting-edge images of the Sun, astronaut photography of the auroras, as well as the Salgado’s photography shot on location in Yellowknife, Canada.

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R E D B A L L O O N . O R G . S G Background photos - Unsplash/Conrad Ziebland, Mario Azzi, Naian Wang Atmospheric Layers of the Earth - teara.govt.nz, windows2universe.org Lunar Surface Chemical Composition - Taylor, Stuart R. (1975). Lunar Science: A Post-Apollo View. Oxford: Pergamon Press