Space: The Final Frontier – Star Wars, The Planets & More

ASO Pops Concert

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Diane Wittry, conductor
Jesse Posa, vocalist

With 300 orbital launches expected in 2025, the final frontier is in the news. Join us for this exploration of space including music from movies and television such as Star Wars and Star Trek, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and ET; classical and popular favorites such as “Mars” and “Jupiter” from Holst’s The Planets, and Fly Me to the Moon.

PROGRAM
RICHARD STRAUSS
Space Odyssey 2001 – Also Sprach Zarathustra Fanfare

ALEXANDER COURAGE | arr. Holcombe
Star Trek – TV Theme

MICHAEL GIACCHINO
Star Trek Into Darkness Suite

BILL CONTI
The Right Stuff

BART HOWARD | arr. Bachalis
Fly Me To The Moon
  Jesse Posa, Vocalist                

JAMES VAN HEUSSEN & SAMMY CAHN | arr. Amy
Come Fly With Me
Jesse Posa, Vocalist                

JAMES TEACHENOR & SEAN NELSON
Space Anthem – Semper Supra
Jesse Posa, Vocalist                  

ARTIE SHAW | arr. Holcombe
Stardust

GUSTAV HOLST
“Jupiter” from The Planets    

INTERMISSION

GUSTAV HOLST
“Mars” from The Planets

JOHN WILLIAMS
Lost in Space – Main Theme                                    

JOHN WILLIAMS
E.T.: Flying Theme from ET

JOHN WILLIAMS
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind

DAVID BOWIE | arr. Lindberg
Space Oddity
Jesse Posa, Vocalist

BERNIE TAUPIN & ELTON JOHN | arr. Ben Easler
Rocket Man
Jesse Posa, Vocalist

JOHN WILLIAMS
The Force Awakens
March of the Resistance                           
Scherzo of the X-Wings                                                

JOHN WILLIAMS
The Throne Room and End Title from Star Wars Suite

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JESSE POSA BIOGRAPHY
Jesse Posa is a graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Instititute. He appeared in Phillip Carlo’s Off-Broadway production of “East of Evil” starring Frank Vincent and Tony Sirico of “The Sopranos”.  Jesse is one of the leading Frank Sinatra impersonators in the country and has appeared at numerous corporate events and private affairs. He has performed as “Frank Sinatra” on stage at Radio City Music Hall , in the Off-Broadway production of “Sinatra & Friends”, at BB King’s in Times Square NYC in “Party with the Rat Pack” and on the TV show, “Impractical Jokers”.

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