MusicPresenter

Between the following two concepts, which would be more attractive to you as a concert-goer? A) The entire score performed live to picture (thus, only 1 movie for the evening) B) A night of film clips themed along the lines of, for example, all western scores, sci-fi scores, the music of Paramount, etc. – some clips during the evening which are presented first without music (dialogue, sound effects only) then with the music synced by the orchestra (giving the audience an opportunity to experience the power of what music can do for a film) – I believe Williams has done this with the Shark and Cage Fugue from Jaws?

Luckily it's rather easy to just kill the music track during the film and keep dialogue and sound effects as they are all on separate tracks. The trick is finding a film where the studio has actually kept all of the cues so that parts can be generated for each orchestra that performs the score. And of course the timing is an issue. Click tracks are annoying so I generally try and go with punches and streamer markers to let the conductor have at least some leeway with tempi.

Worldwide, certainly not limited to the US. Subtitles would be provided in the local language. Could end up being an arena tour actually, although I prefer the concert halls for intimacy and acoustics.

Naww, you'd just keep the original vocal tracks intact and perform the accompanying live score in sync. Otherwise, you're right - would be a difficult production that way, I must admit.

Superman: The Movie I think would be fantastic, not sure if enough of the young ones would jump on board due to the current reboot that is out there. Polar Express or Home Alone for the holidays? The Nightmare Before Xmas for Halloween?

Love them all so far! The trick with Star Wars is the mega royalty that needs to be paid to Lucas and Williams – makes it very difficult to green light. The Star Wars: A Musical Journey production that is touring right now took years to get off its feet, in part, due to the former. Pretty much anything with Lucas is a challenge. Love Jaws as an idea though. Keep the Williams suggestions coming, obviously – but how about films outside of the Williams catalogue? Anything goes.

Hello All, Perhaps some of you have attended live to projection events before – maybe when John Williams did E.T. in Los Angeles years ago, or Lord of the Rings In Concert or Prates of the Caribbean which is a little more recent in terms of production. I’m helping to produce some additional live to projection events coming up in the future and I would like to enlist your opinion(s) of what film scores you might like to hear, performed in full, live to picture. I hope this is the proper place in the forum for such a question. Looking forward to dialoguing with you all.