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This is based upon or an arrangement of music by Tchaikovsky?
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I'm super excited to hear this -- thanks for sharing the news!
Yavar
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No, it is original music. Although it seems like a Tchaikovsky piece will also be preformed at the same event.
Yes, it says it's a double bill, with Tchaikovsky's Serenade (for Strings Op. 48., presumably) and Thomas Newman's score for OF MICE AND MEN. I guess hence the different credits, "Music: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky", because it is pre-existing music used for the performance, and "Original Score: Thomas Newman", because it is music composed for that event.
Would be great to get a recording of that for sure!
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Apr 23, 2022 - 1:23 AM
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"Newman’s score—his first for a ballet—has a period flavor and is inspired by the rural California landscape where Steinbeck’s tragic tale of friendship, innocence and dreams deferred takes place. “He’s given us a beautiful score,” says Wheater. “He’s like a living [Aaron] Copland,” a reference to the composer of the iconic Wild West ballets “Rodeo” and “Billy the Kid.”
Getting composer Thomas Newman to tackle his first-ever ballet score for the Joffrey’s 47-piece orchestra was “a total longshot,” said Joffrey artistic director Ashley Wheater. It was also the first name Marston gave when they began talking about who should create the score.
“I’ve never done a narrative ballet, and it seemed fascinating to me,” Newman said from his home in southern California. “And this setting, where Steinbeck has it all take place? This is where I’m from. This is where I am. I look out my window and I can see the land he was writing about.
“Doing film is a reactive process. You see something, you’re given something, you react to it,” Newman continued. “This isn’t like that. It was frankly kind of baffling to me at first, how the music had to sub-textualize everything, because there would be no words at all. It was more collaborative than anything.”
Four days left until the premiere.
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"Newman’s score—his first for a ballet—has a period flavor and is inspired by the rural California landscape where Steinbeck’s tragic tale of friendship, innocence and dreams deferred takes place. “He’s given us a beautiful score,” says Wheater. “He’s like a living [Aaron] Copland,” a reference to the composer of the iconic Wild West ballets “Rodeo” and “Billy the Kid.”
Kinda bizarre that in regards to Copland, his own Of Mice and Men (his first original film score for Hollywood) wasn’t mentioned! But maybe the writer just isn’t very knowledgeable about film music…
Yavar
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Kinda bizarre that in regards to Copland, his own Of Mice and Men (his first original film score for Hollywood) wasn’t mentioned! But maybe the writer just isn’t very knowledgeable about film music…
Yavar
It's Aaron Copland though, one of the defining voices in American classical music of the 20th century. So I would suppose most people with more than a passing interest in American classical music know Copland also wrote some (very good) film scores.
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