Hyde Hall To Feature Special Astronomy, Music Fusion Event Sunday
By CASPAR EWIGSPRINGFIELD
An experience in the fusion of astronomy and classical music will be offered at Hyde Hall on Sunday, July 30. The concert, titled “Celestial Melodies,” will be performed by the Musicians of Ma’alwyck. It will begin indoors at 7 p.m. and will end outdoors, weather permitting, with the viewing of a meteor display.
The concert will open with two classical pieces composed by the late 18th-century and early 19th-century composers and astronomers William Herschel and his sister, Catherine.
“The interesting part of the evening’s performance,” Ann-Marie Barker Schwartz of Ma’alwyck said, “will be that the Herschels’ music will be interspersed with visual components of their astronomic legacy as well as readings from the diary of Caroline Herschel, who was a musician and celebrated astronomer in her own right.”
