Robinson Meyer
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November 25, 2013

The Music of the Hubble Space Telescope

Robinson Meyer
|
November 25, 2013

The Music of the Hubble Space Telescope

Robinson Meyer
|
November 25, 2013

The Music of the Hubble Space Telescope

Above, there’s a shortened form from a new classical work, the improbably if appropriately named Hubble Cantata by Paola Prestini. The piece, which played on Saturday at the Brookyln Academy of Music’s celebration of "contemporary art song," celebrates the beauty of the space telescope’s imagery. It was created by four specialists: a composer, a librettist, a filmmaker, and an astrophysicist.

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