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Hey Thor, I picked up some schwag from last night's concert for you. Can I still e-mail you at that celluloid thingy?
And Danny only came out on stage at the very end of the show . . . he didn't perform. He just took a bow.
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May 12, 2013 - 12:42 PM
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Sirusjr
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For now you can check out the event page on facebook (should be visible to anyone not just those on Facebook).
https://www.facebook.com/events/152902618183112/
I tagged some photos there from the red carpet.
We had a short gathering at the brewery before hand. I had their IPA, Iowa Battleship and it was quite solid at 6.8% with a nice amber color and heavy grapefruit flavors. I had two of those and then we went over to hang out for the red carpet. I caught photos of Michael Giacchino, Brian Tyler, John Debney, Christopher Lennertz, and the conductor, Steven Allen Fox at the red carpet before going in to grab my seat.
The opening number was an overture suite with different pieces. It gave the concert a powerful start. Driving Miss daisy piece was pretty boring. They could have picked a better Zimmer piece that would have taken better advantage of the full orchestra.
That Hamilton Woman by Miklos Rozsa was a powerful romantic piece that really gave the violins a workout. Dolphin Tale was a great emotional selection for Isham and made great use of the visuals from the film on screen. The solo flutist Sara Andon made her debut in A Little Romance (Georges Delerue), hitting all the right notes in the quite difficult piece. Every time she made it out again I knew I was in for a treat.
How to Train Your Dragon (John Powell) gave the orchestra a workout with its powerful passages and big sweeping themes. Aliens vs Predator Requiem (Brian Tyler) was a powerful piece but also over way too fast. Even my boyfriend was saying "WOW!" at how powerful the orchestra sounded. Part One ended on a powerful note with Rudy (Jerry Goldsmith) adding on the choir for even more effect.
For part 1, I only didn't like Driving Miss Daisy.
Part 2 started with a bang with another suite, this time an Entr'acte. The big rousing Sci-Fi themes presented here blended perfectly together and gave us a taste of Robocop, City Slickers, Back to the Future 3, Iron Giant, Aliens, and others.
Iron Will (Joel McNeely) was a solid performance although it did drag at parts. Spartacus (Alex North) was of course introduced with Robert Townson proclaiming it the greatest theme ever written. Once again we got the lovely Sara Andon to play flute, and again the parts were quite complicated but she pulled them off beautifully.
Pee Wee's Big Adventure (Danny Elfman) was introduced with a bunch of talk about how it really got people into Elfman. Being one of Elfman's more quirky works, I didn't really think it fit with the rest of the program. It was at least slightly more interesting than Driving Miss Daisy. Though both Pee Wee and Driving Miss Daisy were the first scores the respective composers had released by Varese so I can see why it would make sense to include them.
The Ant Bully (John Debney) gave us a nice African flavor for the evening with Swahili vocals. A solid and engaging piece. Shrek (Harry Gregson Williams) was a powerful piece, and a highlight of the second half. Great themes and use of solo vocalists. Star Trek Into Darkness (Michael Giacchino) was a solid suite but it also sounded like most of it was themes from the first film. A few of the parts that sounded new were kinda boring and a bit heavy on the textured suspense side of things. It might have been more accurately called simply Star Trek suite.
As an encore, we were given the lovely To Kill a Mockingbird (Elmer Bernstein) suite. Unexpected but quite lovely as it has always been one of my favorite Bernstein scores. To end things off, we had a piece from The Final Conflict (Jerry Goldsmith) as a preview of the upcoming Varese concert in October featuring other horror scores as well.
My boyfriend enjoyed himself for his first film music concert. For him, the highlights were How to Train Your Dragon, AVP, and Shrek. For me, the highlights were To Kill a Mockingbird, Rudy, and A Little Romance.
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The concert and presigning events were a blast! It was awesome to see so many friends in the same room with all of the composers and such awesome musicians. The signing part went well, mostly Giacchino, Debney, Eidelman, Tyler, Isham, Navarro and Lennertz sat down to sign most of the time. Elfman slipped in quietly and no one saw him until his moment on stage at the end. After that, he slipped out faster then anyone and had an entourage that looked like the Secret Service. Hans Zimmer also slipped out and avoided the crowds. Myself, along with a couple other folks (including my dear friend Peter Hackman) managed to snag Hans Zimmer while he was smoking outside. I calmly went up to him and apologized for interruping his smoking and kindly asked him to sign...and to my surprise he signed everything I brought with me. He said he was nervous about the concert, and I assured him that he would do quite well and not to worry. He performed well. The concert was amazing in every sense of the word. John Powell sat in the audience but also came and went before anyone could stop him to sign anything. With the exception of a couple of us catching Zimmer earlier in the day, he, Powell, and Elfman were the hardest to catch up to and didnt shop up for any pre-events or signing.
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