Friday, 16 February 2018, was a triumphant evening for the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. In fact, it was a victory for ALL inhabitants of this dry, dusty, Sonoran Desert town, as a long, slow, lightly-foggy drizzle blanketed this Old Pueblo, yielding our first significant accumulation of precipitation in over six months – salvation at last! This gift from above was deeply appreciated, though it turned us concert-goers into a trail of snails, slogging through downtown's construction muck to get into the TCC Music Hall. And while the start time was intentionally delayed, the action on stage was well worth the wait. Regarding 'LUMINOSITY'S WITNESS': Hailed in advance by Maestro José Luis Gomez for its orchestration and narrative, 'Luminosity's Witness', by 23-year-old composer Anthony Constantino , delivered an enlightening trek through a striking array of well-judged, unusual sonorities. This first ever premier of an orchestral work by a TSO Young
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