Concerts

Compiled by Lukas Kendall and Jeff Bond

With Special Thanks to John Waxman, Themes & Variations

We print a list of film music concerts every month in FILM SCORE MONTHLY. We ordinarily do not print this on the site as well -- hey, you gotta subscribe! -- but this month, so much stuff was going to happen before the magazine would reach people that we need to tell everyone now.

Here's the news!

Jerry Goldsmith will conduct the Orquestra Simfonica de Barcelona in a concert of his music on December 10 and 11. See www.auditori.com or call (34) 93-247-9300.

From: "John Takis" <takisjoh@pilot.msu.edu>

Tickets are now on sale for "Pops Goes Hollywood"; Detroit, Michigan; June, 2000; Jerry Goldsmith, conductor.

"Academy Award-winning film and television composer Jerry Goldsmith leads his own scores from televison (The Twilight Zone, The Waltons) and films (Patton, Air Force One, Star Trek, Mulan), as well as soundtracks from vintage films."

Concert dates are:

Thursday, June 1at 10:45 a.m.

Thursday, June 1at 8:00 p.m.

Friday, June 2 at 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, June 3 at 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, June 4 at 3:00 p.m

See www.detroitsymphony.com for more information. Plenty of seats available.

Would you also mind announcing that anyone planning on attending should first e-mail me at takisjoh@pilot.msu.edu ? I think it would be a good opportunity for FSM fans to meet under the most ideal of circumstances. Thanks! And thanks for all your outsanding work!

From: Henrik Stender <papillon@VIP.CYBERCITY.DK>

I just stepped into www.lso.co.uk searching for upcoming Williams concerts, but found this instead:

Monday 22 May at 7.30pm (Reference #0005220)

Jerry Goldsmith Film Music Concert

Music from films including: Star Trek: First Contact

The Spirit of St Louis

The Boys from Brazil

All About Eve

Jerry Goldsmith conductor

Tuesday 23 May at 7.30pm (Reference #0005230)

Jerry Goldsmith Film Music Concert

Music from films including: Star Trek

Capricorn One

Alien

The Twilight Zone

Jerry Goldsmith conductor

From: "Frederic Gimello" <frederic.gimello@freesbee.fr>

We would like to inform your readers about concerts programming film/concert music composers in Toulouse, France this year and next year:

TOULOUSE, FRANCE: march 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 2000 : the Italian version of Nino Rota's Il Capello di paglia di Firenze(The strawhat of Italy) and on march 18, 22, 24, 26 the French version of the same operetta by the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse plus tribute to Nino Rota at the Toulouse Cinematheque.

TOULOUSE, FRANCE: january 19, 2000 : Toulouse National Chamber Orchestra plays Nyman's On the Fiddle for solo violin and strings.

TOULOUSE, FRANCE: Toulouse National Chamber Orchestra plays Petrassi's little music for strings. Goffredo Petrassi is Morricone's Master and was also a film composer during the 40s and 60s.

Oregon Symphony

From: kurkoskt@oit.edu

The Oregon Symphony just published its 1999-2000 schedule. Here's a couple of highlights that I think might interest film score fans:

Halloween Silent Movie: Phantom of the Opera

Tuesday, October 26, 7:30 PM

Carl Daehler, conductor

Dennis James, organ

Pre-concert organ recital at 6:30

(I assume this will be a screening with live music deal)

Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky

May 20, 7:30 PM; May 21, 7:30 PM; May 22, 8 PM

James DePriest, conductor

with Portland Symphonic Choir

Also performing Shostakovich's Symphony No. 9

All performances are at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland, Oregon. For tickets, call 503.228.1353

Philip Glass's newly rescored version of Dracula (1931 Bela Lugosi classic) is now available on video, DVD and CD. The music is for string quartet and will be performed by Kronos Quartet (who play it in the new version of the film) at several live events, conducted by Michael Riesman:

October 23-24, screening of the film with live music at Royal Festival Hall, South Bank Centre, London.

October 26-27, screening with live music at Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York.

October 29, screening with live music at San Francisco Jazz Festival, Paramount Theatre, Oakland.

October 30, 31: screening with live music at UCLA Center for the Performing Arts, Royce Hall, Los Angeles.

Orchestra Seattle and the Seattle Chamber Singers will perform music from The Phantom Menace on Sunday, October 24 at 3:00 PM in Seattle's Benaroya Hall. Conducted by George Shangrow, the program will also include Ralph Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music and Randall Thompson's Symphony No. 2. Visit www.osscs.org or call 206-682-5208 for ticket information.

On February 19, 2000, the Plymouth Music Series will perform Seven for Luck in Minneapolis' Orchestra Hall. Part of their annual "Witness" concert honoring Black History Month, it will be conducted by Phillip Brunelle. See www.plymouthmusic.org for or call 612-624-2345 further information.

The following are concerts featuring film music pieces as part of their programs. Thanks go to John Waxman of Themes & Variations (http://tnv.net) for this list; he provides scores and parts to the orchestras.

Due to the lead time of this magazine, it is possible some of this information is too late to do any good. Always confirm the concert with the orchestra's box office; call local information or look on the Internet.

CALIFORNIA

October 27, Hollywood Bowl S.O., Dorothy Chandler Pavillion, Alfred Hitchcock Centennial Concert, John Mauceri cond.; Storm Clouds Cantata (Benjamin), Spellbound (Rózsa), Psycho, Vertigo (Herrmann), Frenzy (Addison), Dial M For Murder, Strangers on a Train (Tiomkin), Rebecca (Newman), Rear Window (Waxman), The Man Who Knew Too Much (Herrmann). There will be a pre-concert lecture by Steven Smith, author of the Herrmann bio Heart at Fire's Center. November 3, Riverside County Philharmonic; Great Escape (Bernstein).

CONNECTICUT

October 28 & 29, New Haven S.O.; Bride of Frankenstein (Waxman), Psycho (Herrmann).

FLORIDA

October 30, 31, Boca Pops, Boca Raton, Crafton Beck, cond.; Psycho, Addams Family (Shaiman).

November 30, December 1, Boca Pops, Boca Raton, Crafton Beck, cond.; Shakespeare in Love (Warbeck).

November 16, 17, Boca Pops, Boca Raton, Crafton Beck, cond.; Lawrence of Arabia (Jarre).

INDIANA

November 20, Lafayette S.O.; all Mancini concert.

MASSACHUSETTS

November-Dec dates TBA., Boston Pops and Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra tour, Holly & Ivy (Malcolm Arnold).

MAINE

November 20, 21, Portland S.O., Composer Post Office Stamps first day issue celebration; Bride of Frankenstein (Waxman), Vertigo, Psycho (Herrmann).

MICHIGAN

November 11, S.W. Michigan S.O.; Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (Herrmann).

NEW YORK

October 30, Westchester S.O., Suny Purchase Univ., Purchase; Psycho (Herrmann).

OKLAHOMA

October 31, Oklahoma City S.O; Addams Family (Mizzy/Shaiman), Twilight Zone (Constant).

PENNSYLVANIA

October 31, Philadelphia S.O.; Bride of Frankenstein (Waxman), Psycho (Herrmann).

TEXAS

October 29, 30, 31, Dallas S.O. Richard Kaufman, cond.; King Kong (Steiner), Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Waxman), Day the Earth Stood Still (Herrmann), It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Gold)

October 30, Abeline S.O.; Bride of Frankenstein (Waxman), Captain from Castille (A. Newman).

November 12, 13, 14, Dallas, Richard Kaufman, cond.; The Caine Mutiny March (Steiner)

December 10, 11, Dallas S.O., Richard Kaufman, cond.; Holly & Ivy (Malcolm Arnold)

UTAH

October 29 & 30, Utah S.O., Salt Lake City; X-Files (Snow), Psycho

October 30 & 31, Richmond S.O.; Psycho

VIRGINIA

October 30, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, New River Valley Symphony Orch.; Beetlejuice (Elfman), The Omen (Goldsmith)

October 30, Blacksburg S.O.; Bride of Frankenstein (Waxman), The X-Files (Snow), Vertigo, Psycho (Herrmann)

WEST VIRGINIA

October 24, Wheeling S.O.; Addams Family, Ghostbusters, Gremlins, Poltergeist (Goldsmith), Psycho

WISCONSIN

November 30, December 1, Milwaukee S.O.; Miracle on 34th St. (Mockridge)

CANADA

November 28, Canadian Broadcasting System, Vancouver, British Columbia; Psycho

FRANCE

December 13, January 2 & 27, Cologne, Paris, Mask of Zorro (Horner).

GERMANY

October 27, 28, 29, Northwest German Phil., Nordwestdeutsche Phil., Herford, Thomas Kalb, cond., The Godfather (Rota), Old Gringo (Holdridge), Bride of Frankenstein, Star Trek "The Menagerie" (Courage)

JAPAN

October 28, Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo; Indiana Jones & Last Crusade (Williams)

MALAYSIA

October 30 & 31, Malaysian Philharmonic Orch., Kualalumpur, Malaysia; Kevin Field cond.; Batman Suite (Elfman), Theme from The X-Files (Snow), Overture from Twilight Zone: The Movie (Goldsmith), The Addams Family (Mizzy & Shaiman), ET: The Extra-terrestrial, Dance of The Witches from The Witches of Eastwick (Williams).

SCOTLAND

November 5, Orchestra of the Radio Slovenja, Ljubljana, Carl Davis, cond.; Psycho. November 20, 21, Royal Scottish Nat'l O.; Of Human Bondage (Korngold).

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