“It all begins with a flick of the maestro’s baton. The signal ushers in the first stroke of a violin, a chord on the piano, or a burst of notes from a united orchestra and results in what the Utah Symphony’s music director, Thierry Fischer, calls a “shower of sounds.”

You are surrounded by this invisible energy,” Fischer said. “And then to share this with an audience and in a community, with the fact that they know something is happening in the Abravanel Hall, is what matters.”

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Deseret News, 22nd February 2014