EVENT
Dark
a concert by the Phoenix Orchestra
December 5, 2019
7:30 PM–9:30 PM
Join Phoenix and the Waterworks Museum for an orchestra performance in the museum’s Great Engines Hall. Dark features a program of music about darkness, played in darkness, on one of the darkest nights of the year. Headlined by Arnold Schoenberg’s absolute masterwork of classical music, Verklärte Nacht (or Transfigured Night). Explore the museum’s steam engines and David Lang’s minimalist masterpiece Breathless with us at a show that you will never forget.
Performance is on Thursday, December 5th, 7:30-9:30 PM. Tickets available online (see link above and below).
Current Exhibit
Moving Water: From Ancient Innovations to Modern Challenges
Ancient civilizations engineered water systems that sustained communities for thousands of years. This exhibition spotlights six places that innovated ways to deliver, and control water for human use. It also looks at how climate change is impacting all of those places, forcing public officials to consider new ways to keep the water flowing.