The celestial image on the cover of the November 2022 issue of Limelight is of the icy Enceladus – the sixth largest of Saturn’s 82 moons – which is featured in Amanda Lee Falkenberg’s The Moons Symphony.

In our cover feature, Seven Ways of Looking at a Moon, Megan Steller talks to the Australian-born composer about her epic composition in which she depicts seven of the moons in our solar system, including Earth’s moon, after consulting with a number of the world’s leading scientists.

Earlier this year, Marin Alsop conducted the London Symphony Orchestra and London Voices in a recording of the cinematic, pictorial symphony, released by Signum Classics in October. Steller also talks with Alsop and some of the scientists to find out how the space adventure came about, and what listeners can expect from the thrilling musical odyssey in which the arts and science interconnect.

Next year, the Adelaide Festival will present Ballett Zürich’s staging of Verdi’s Requiem, choreographed and produced by Christian Spuck. First staged in Zurich in 2016, Messa da Requiem will feature over 200 singers, musicians and dancers. In our second feature, A Return to Morality,...