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Hector J. Guzman Standard Userer	=========================================== Film Music Festival in Madrid June 30 - July 2 http://www.soncinemad.com/ =========================================== AUSTRALIA Sydney Symphony: The Wizard of Oz with live music Three performances West Side Story, Phantom of the Opera and more in Brisbane Clive James presents Movie Music in Perth, WA Two performances BELGIUM Flemish Radio Orchestra: Muziek en film Dirk Brossé conducts Harry Potter CHINA Symphonic Dances from West Side Story in Hong Kong Two performances SPAIN Harry Gregson Williams in Madrid Trevor Jones in Madrid July 1 UNITED KINGDOM Carl Davis conducts Sci-Fi Symphony in Birmingham Filmharmonic at Royal Albert Hall LOTR Symphony in Glasgow Rodgers and Hammerstein Gala in Glasgow UNITED STATES Boston Pops: Salute to Oscar and Tony Two performances Film Music in the Bay Area Hamlisch conducts Pittsburgh Pops John Williams' Liberty Fanfare programmed in Charlotte Joshua Bell: The Red Violin; Baltimore Symphony Three performances Charlotte Symphony: John Williams Spectacular Baltimore Symphony: Hollywood Epics Three performances Boston Pops: Berstein on Broadway Three performances Rodgers' Victory at Sea in Manchester, CT Seattle Symphony plays music from Hitchcock films Five performances Indianapolis Symphony: Sounds of the Screen Harry Potter music in Vermont VT Dates??? Erich Kunzel: Out of this World; Cincinnati Pops June 30, July 1 [Message edited by Hector J. Guzman on 06-01-2006]
posted 06-01-2006 11:23 AM PT (US)

Dinko Standard Userer	You know what's sad with most film music concerts? They're so shallow. It's like film music is just an afterthought. The type of desperate pops programming orchestras churn out hoping to convert occasional concert goers into long-time symphony patrons. Well tough luck with this kind of crap. It fails on so many levels it's incredible. The costs orchestras incur must be much higher for staging a dozen film music suites in a concert than staging a large scale traditional repertoire symphony: royalties to publishers for recent works, rehearsals, additional instruments or musicians, etc. I'd fall off my chair if 2.5% of film music attendees turn into regular patrons (which I would define very loosley as: anyone attending a classical concert at least once/year). I can't imagine wealthy supporters giving more to symphonies because they stage film music shows. Simultanously, because these are pops concerts, ticket prices are lower. Where I stand, it looks more like film music shows are squeezing what little resources orchestras have left with no benefits worth the costs. The occasional event (Star Wars, Lord of the Rings) is at least worth the experience. Maybe it's just me, but I'd much rather that orchestra sportlight a composer per show as opposed to yet another show of Star Wars march + Mag 7 + Harry Pooper. If they're going to waste their time on short disconnected suites, they can try a different approach: replacing the inevitable 10-minute overture at the beginning of every concert by a short suite from a movie. If you can't convert the mass audience to classical concerts, try enlightening the classical audience by giving them something fresh to listen to before Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto. I'm sure they'd enjoy a suite from First Knight a hell of a lot more than the latest unlistenable garbage by some "modern" wannabe composer whose latest "masterpiece" sounds like it was written by half a dozen 3-year olds randomly banging on instruments for 10 minutes.
posted 06-01-2006 01:40 PM PT (US)

Thor Standard Userer	Are you quite finished, Dinko? Seriously, I would DIE for more film music concerts in this country, even if they were filled with a thousand STAR WARS'es and PSYCHO's. It's that rare. Sometimes, I feel that you guys over the pond have been spoiled by too many film music concerts over the years. I've been to TWO in my entire life, both of them last year. [Message edited by Thor on 06-01-2006]
posted 06-01-2006 03:24 PM PT (US)

Dinko Standard Userer	quote: Originally posted by Thor: Sometimes, I feel that you guys over the pond have been spoiled by too many film music concerts over the years. I've been to TWO in my entire life, both of them last year. If it makes a difference for you, I've been to three: - free Star Wars + Leonard Bernstein concert by Montreal Symphony - Crouching Tiger Suite, by Montreal Symphony - The Star Wars Concert by Toronto Symphony. I'd go to more. If they weren't so lame. As things stand, for 35$ I can get one, but not both, of: 1- concert ticket for a one-time event to see compilation of popular film music themes, of unknown performance quality in pathetic acoustic (Salle Wilfrid Pelletier in Montreal is one of the shittiest-sounding concert halls in the world) over a period of 3-4 hours including going to and returning from the concert 2- a new Chandos disc: pristine sound, perfect performance, good music I've probably never heard before but will most likely enjoy for years to come. Take your pick. I find the CD to be a much better investment than a concert of Silva/Telarc-like short themes. My opÃ®nion would be different if tomorrow an orchestra announced that they would feature a complete show focusing only on Elliot Goldenthal or Cliff Eidelman. Now don't go marketing that show as a pops concert. Stick it in a new music festival setting like they did with Tan Dun. Now, truth be told, I don't expect orchestras to do anything differently that they already are. They're applying the same thinking to film scores as they are to classical: Orchestra programming person 1: - Let's see, next season we can perform Rimsky-Korsakov's superbly orchestrated, lush, unashamedly memorable and tune-filled opera suites, or the underperfomed but equally good 3 symphonies. Orchestra programming person 2: - Oh no! I have a fantastic and original idea. Let's do something we've never done: Let's beat the guinness world record of the most frequent number of performances of Rimsky-K's Scheherazade. Dutoit is trying to do that in Philadelphia, let's beat him to it! Orchestra board unanimously: - Yeah, that'd be really cool! It's refreshing to see concerts like the one in Spain where they focus on a composer as much as they do.
posted 06-01-2006 06:11 PM PT (US)

Thor Standard Userer	I agree with pretty much everything you say, Dinko, but at least you have the POSSIBILITY to see film music concerts quite often. They can be better, yes, but at least they're there.
posted 06-02-2006 03:53 AM PT (US)

Jeron Standard Userer	SUMMER MOVIE MUSIC CONCERT IN DALLAS Bruce Broughton will be in Dallas, Texas, conducting excerpts from several of his film and television scores in June with the Metropolitan Winds, a symphony orchestra with no strings. The concert will be held at the Meyerson Symphony Center on Sunday, June 11 at 7:00pm. He will be conducting wind transcriptions of his work, which includes Tombstone, Silverado, Lost in Space, Eloise at the Plaza and The Three Musketeers. The Metropolitan Winds, conducted by composer/arranger Randol Bass, performs traditional and contemporary symphonic band music in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. For more information, go to www.metropolitanwinds.org.
posted 06-03-2006 09:45 AM PT (US)

Hector J. Guzman Standard Userer	For those in northern Argentina this next Friday: John Williams' Suite from Harry Potter in Tacuman: La Gaceta: Tacuman [Message edited by Hector J. Guzman on 06-14-2006]
posted 06-14-2006 09:06 PM PT (US)

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