Akron Symphony Orchestra presents “Planet Earth”

3/23 “Planet Earth”  The sounds and images of the Arctic Circle and of Antarctica are joined with Respighi’s well-known “The Pines of Rome” for a special evening of music. Rautavaara uses the recordings of arctic birds in Cantus Arcticus, while Vaughan Williams’ Sinfonia Antarctica was originally used as the soundtrack to a documentary film about the Scott expedition to Antarctica. Christopher Wilkins conducts. University of Akron, E.J. Thomas Hall, 198 Hill St., Akron. 8 p.m. $12.50-$60. akronsymphony.org