So Fragile, So Blue is about something we all have in common: this beautiful planet Earth that we all call home. At the center of the project is William Shatner and his remarkable talent for storytelling. In 2021, Shatner took a historic journey into space on Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket. Shortly before the flight, Shatner sat down with two old friends, Robert Sharenow and Dan Miller. The trio had written songs together for many years. Shatner reports: "I met Robert and Dan for dinner and of course started talking about writing a song about going into space and made some notes. But then I flew up and came back down. One of the first calls was to Robert and Dan. I said, "You know that song we were going to write about space? Forget about it. It doesn't work." The experience was beyond anything we could have imagined. We need to write a song about it, but not the one we wrote down that Sunday. So we started writing a song that captured and distilled what I experienced on the flight into space. We called it "So Fragile, So Blue", and it really sums up everything I felt and saw." The songs would later take on a new form thanks to another longtime friend, Ben Folds, who was fascinated by Shatner's experiences in space. Folds, who is an artistic advisor to the Kennedy Center, brought new collaborators to the project - composers Jherek Bischoff and Gabe Witcher. The friends' work was finally brought to life in April 2022 at the Kennedy Center by the National Symphony Orchestra and Steven Reineke.