Utah Symphony | Utah Opera is adding its music and voices to next spring’s 150th-anniversary celebration of the Golden Spike, building the organization’s annual Cultural Festival around the theme of the Transcontinental Railroad.
The festival will be tied to Utah’s Spike 150 celebrations, marking the sesquicentennial of the driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory, Utah, on May 10, 1869, uniting the West and East coasts.
In an announcement Wednesday, USUO said the orchestra’s part of the festival will be its May 17 and 18 performances at Salt Lake City’s Abravanel Hall, which will include the previously announced world premiere of a commissioned work written by Chinese-born American composer Zhou Tian.