Springdale • “Thank you. That was divine,” said one concertgoer wearing shorts to a Utah Symphony staff member while filing out of Tuesday night’s outdoor concert.
That idea of the transcendent — in nature and in music — was the theme for the kickoff concert of the Utah Symphony’s Great American Road Trip, attended by more than 1,300 people. The redrock cliffs of Springdale’s O.C. Tanner Amphitheater provided a striking backdrop as the orchestra’s music was accompanied by the flights of moths on a hot August night.
Mussorgsky’s “A Night on Bald Mountain,” Debussy’s “Clair de lune” and Dvorak’s “Song to the Moon” filled the nature-themed program.