Composer Alex Temple wrote this suite about her experiences during her transition, but makes those experiences unforgettably accessible to pretty much anyone.
"The colors of a rainbow so pretty in the sky.
Are also on the faces of people going by." -Louis Armstrong
It's no secret that white light is the light that we see when all the colors shine together and are seen at once. This has been known for over 400 years, when Isaac Newton demonstrated that white light could be broken up into all the known colors by dispersing it through a prism.
"Enigma" is at the Adler Planetarium this week, performed inside the dome theater. Spektral Quartet’s final season is dedicated entirely to projects lost to the pandemic.