Marian Schedenig

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This post by Koray reminded me of a thread I've been meaning to start for over a year:

 

 

Sad that Family Plot didn't even sell 3,000 copies after all these years.

 

This is the Große Saal at the Wiener Konzerthaus:

 

 

It seats 1,865 people and is usually sold out at the now annual Hollywood in Vienna film music concert. That's 1,865 people from Vienna, Austria, Germany and other neighbouring countries who have at least some interest in film music that's strong enough to pay the ticket price (which has been consistently rising, a mid range ticket is about €50, with ground floor tickets going up to about €100).

 

Now obviously, not every single one of them is a fanatic like we here are. Some just want to hear some nice familiar melodies from films they like, some are there accompanying friends. Still, a significant percentage probably has an active interest in film music, and altogether there are 1,865 people with *some* interest in film music in the same place at the same time.

 

That's nearly twice as many people as there are printed CD copies of Abel Korzeniowski's score to Copernicus Star (1000) in the world. And not all of them have been sold.

 

It's nearly as many people as the number of La-La-Land's Jane Eyre and Tora! Tora! Tora! releases, two classic scores by two of the greatest and most famous film composers of the second half of film history. Take all sold copies of one of these releases and give one to each audience member and you might just not run out of CDs before everyone has one.

 

Which raises the question: How many of us actually are there in the world?

According to Hollywood in Vienna's latest Facebook announcement, James Horner will receive the Max Steiner this year and therefore presumably be the special guest at this year's film music symposium and the concert on October 4.

I wonder if I should ask him to sign my Prokofiev CDs?

Here's a place for all the photos I'm sure many of us shoot at various film music related events. For those cases where there's not enough to discuss to warrant a separate thread.

I'll start with some photos from yesterday's annual Film Music Symposium in Vienna. As always, it's tied to a film music concert, which will take place on Monday. David Newman will conduct the RSO, and special guest Lalo Schifrin will be awarded the Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award.

David Newman:











Lalo Schifrin:











Nick Redman introducing Lalo Schifrin:









More pics below.