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Max Mueller Bhavan | India Chennai

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7:00 PM

Digital Concert Hall: Film scores at the Waldbühne

Digital Concert|in cooperation with BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

  • Library, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi

Programme

  • Alfred Newman - Bronislau Kaper (composer)
    20th Century Fox Fanfare · Meuterei auf der Bounty
  • David Raksin
    Laura
  • Jerome Moross
    The Big Country
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold
    The Adventures of Robin Hood
  • Scott Bradley
    Tom und Jerry 
  • Miklós Rózsa
    Ben Hur-Suite
  • John Williams
    Indiana Jones: Raiders March
  • John Williams
    E.T.: Flying Theme
  • John Williams
    Star Wars: Main Title
  • Paul Lincke
    Berliner Luft

Simon Rattle conducts film scores at the Waldbühne

At their traditional concert in the Waldbühne, the Berliner Philharmoniker will be rounding off the season as usual with a programme that is particularly full of atmosphere. This time Sir Simon Rattle will devote himself to the genre of film music, otherwise the exception in philharmonic concerts. The opener, the famous 20th Century Fox Fanfare, is a work by Alfred Newman, who has won many Oscars and is considered one of the best-known film music composers of America. Miklós Rózsa was no less famous – he wrote, for instance, the music for Ben Hur, including what is probably the best-known chariot race in film history. And there’s Bernard Herrmann, who became world-famous through his work with Alfred Hitchcock (e.g., The Trouble with Harry, Vertigo, Marnie, Psycho). In the Waldbühne, the Berliner Philharmoniker have surrounded themselves with plenty of celebrities, including not only conductor Simon Rattle and – as soloist in Grieg’s Piano Concerto – pianist Lang Lang, but also many figures from film history: Robin Hood, Tom and Jerry, Ben Hur and more. They were all brought to life musically when the orchestra struck up some of Hollywood’s most famous film music.

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