One of National Geographic Society’s “Ocean Heroes”, filmmaker and adventurer Jon Bowermaster presents his cinematographic film “Antarctica 3D: On The Edge.” His personal narration of his 3,741-mile trek across Antarctica by dogsled will be accompanied by a symphony orchestra performing the stirring Ralph Vaughan Williams score, “Sinfonia Antartica, Symphony No. 7”.
Vaughan Williams is remembered primarily as a composer of concert orchestral music, but he also wrote music for a dozen films. One of them was Scott of the Antarctic in 1947. The composer was so pleased with his film score that he decided to rework it into concert music....