The Abi­lene Phil­har­monic presents an evening of musi­cal for­ti­tude in Cel­e­bra­tions which fea­tures Dan­zon No. 2 by Mar­quez, Glazunov’s Vio­lin Con­certo in A minor and Sym­phony No. 5 by Tchaikovsky. The evening show­cases vio­lin­ist Rachel Barton-Pine. The con­cert is on Jan­u­ary 28^th at 8pm in the Abi­lene Civic Center.

The Abi­lene Phil­har­monic will also have its inau­gural meet­ing of the Glow in the Dark Club at this con­cert. The Glow in the Dark Club is a des­ig­nated sec­tion of Abi­lene Civic Cen­ter Hall, where audi­ences can bring their lap­tops, iPhones or iPads, and go online to a secure site that con­tains mate­r­ial that will enhance the musi­cal expe­ri­ence and add com­men­tary in real-time dur­ing the con­cert. The first trial of this con­cert exper­i­ment will be held at the Sat­ur­day night’s per­for­mance of Cel­e­bra­tions.

Con­cert com­men­tary cov­ers only Tchaikovsky’s Sym­phony No. 5 and con­sists of pro­gram­ming notes and visual enhance­ment pro­vided by the Abi­lene Phil­har­monic. This com­men­tary includes an infor­ma­tive, musi­cal guide that pro­vides addi­tional infor­ma­tion on the com­poser, his­tory of the piece and insight into the world of clas­si­cal music all while the orches­tra per­forms the piece. These real-time pro­gram notes will be dis­played online and can be viewed through com­pli­men­tary access to high-speed wire­less inter­net in the theater–digitizing the tra­di­tional con­cert hall expe­ri­ence. 

Glow in the Dark Club tick­ets are $15 and may be pur­chased by call­ing the Phil­har­monic Box Office at 325–677-6710 and men­tion­ing, “Glow in the Dark.”At that time, you will be given instruc­tions how to access the con­tent. Future per­for­mances of the Glow in the Dark Club will be announced fol­low­ing the feed­back and recep­tion of this first beta test.

Stu­dent Rush does not apply to the Glow in the Dark Club. The con­cert spon­sor for the evening is Abi­lene Regional Med­ical Cen­ter. Super spon­sors are Town­Square Media and KTXS. Guest artist sup­port pro­vided by Hardin-Simmons University.