The Pinnacle String Ensemble presents its Fall Concert, “Though Space and Time,” on Saturday, November 22, at 3:00 pm in Coulter Recital Hall at Western Carolina University. The concert features music that represents the planets, the moon, and stars.

This concert brings together the WCU School of Music and the Chemistry and Physics Departments in an interdisciplinary collaboration. Dr. Enrique Gomez, Associate Professor of Astronomy and Physics, will open the program by sharing some of the interesting discoveries in the field of astronomy with images taken by
Dr. Gomez and his students.

The Pinnacle String Ensemble is directed by Kim Neidlinger, Adjunct Instructor of Music Education. The program begins with the first movement of Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 43, “Mercury”. Other selections features movements from Mozart’s Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter”, “Mars” from The Planets by Gustav Holst, “Song To the Moon” from the opera, Rusalka by Antonin Dvorak, “Quiet Night of Quiet Stars” by Antonio Carlos Jobim and concludes with Frank Sinatra’s signature standard by Bart Howard, “Fly Me to The Moon”.

The Pinnacle String Ensemble is in its second season as a collegiate-community ensemble. The concert is free and open to the public.