Coming up
Monday 23 August 2010
Snape Proms
Brian Eno’s Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
Icebreaker
B J Cole pedal steel guitar
Intended to accompany the 1983 film For All Mankind, music from the album also appeared in the films 28 Days Later, Traffic and Trainspotting. Woojun Lee’s new arrangement returns the music to its original conception, accompanying the NASA footage from the Apollo programme projected on to a large screen, capturing the mesmerizing beauty, tranquil mystery and the dizzying scale of the moon and Earth, whilst revisiting one of the iconic moments in 20th-century history.
‘Apollo’s moonstruck ambience has aged gracefully, and ... [the] spare, fiercely intelligent orchestration gave it the bloom of youth.’ The Guardian
Snape Maltings Concert Hall
7.30pm
£18, £15, £12, Prom £6
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Some basic Moon Facts!
Distance from earth in light years 1.5 light seconds
Length of lunar day 27.3 earth days
Radius 1080 miles
Circumference 6790 miles
Weight 81 quintillion tons
Surface temperature (day) 134° C
Surface temperature (night) –154°C
Gravity on surface 0.1667g (1/6th of earth's)
Orbital speed 22,887mph
Driving time by car at 70mph 135 days
Flying time by rocket 60–70 hours
Walking time at 3mph 8.6 years
Men who have walked on the moon 12
Age of oldest collected rock over 4 billion years
Weight of rocks collected by Apollo missions 842 pounds
Widest craters 140 miles in diameter
Deepest craters over 15,000 feet
Highest mountains over 16,000 feet