Saturday, December 5, 2026 at 2:00 PM to Saturday, December 5, 2026 at 4:30 PM
The Wende Museum, Culver City
The Wende Museum presents Seven Sisters Productions in a concert of two premieres about space exploration. The concert is part of the program series for the exhibition *Competing Cosmologies: Interpreting the Sky*. *The Silver Mirror* is a new work by composer Sergey Nesterov and librettist Alan Olejniczak. Seven Sisters Productions commissioned it for the exhibition. Written for soprano, piano, contrabass, and clarinet, it tells the story of the human space race from the moon's point of view. The moon first describes its role as watcher and guardian of the earth. Over four movements, it then recalls Sputnik, Apollo 11, the Voyager probes, and the Challenger shuttle. The work closes with a look ahead to future human travel to the moon and beyond. *Stellar* fills the second half. Its three parts, Pathfinders, Celestial Songs, and Wonders, move from orbits and test flights to Apollo 11, Perseverance, and Voyager 1, then on to light, black holes, and the Big Bang. An epilogue returns to Sputnik. The concert runs about 70 minutes. A reception in the garden follows. *The concert takes place in the A-Frame Theater. Doors open at 1:45 p.m. Seating is first come, first served.*