Regular readers of this blog know that I’m active in promoting an annual concert in Shelbyville by The Nashville Symphony. The symphony, of course, hopes that events like this will draw people to their classical and pops concerts in Nashville.

That strategy worked with my parents, who this year have bought a package of symphony tickets. They are taking me along to the first concert of the season, which will feature a performance of Holst’s “The Planets” complete with projected images from the Hubble space telescope.

There will also be a narrator. Originally, the narrator was scheduled to be Patrick Stewart, but movie commitments forced him out, and so the symphony has made an extremely logical choice for his replacement.