Omen II 1,235 Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra will be performing a special concert devoted to Elmer Bernstein's film music on Sunday 18th June 2017 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The concert will be conducted by Elmer's son Peter Bernstein, while director John Landis will also be putting in an appearance at the London premiere. http://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/events/2017/elmer-bernstein-50-years-of-film-music/ Tickets are available from tomorrow, but for now here is a link to a press release in the Daily Express. Elmer worked with the RPO quite a bit and I was lucky enough to see him conduct them in concert a couple of times back in the day. This has the makings of a very special event. World concert premieres are promised - I see there is mention of Music from the Comedies, so maybe Airplane!, Animal House, Trading Places and others will feature? Time to dust off the score for Robot Monster, methinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Omen II 1,235 Posted June 18, 2017 Author Share Posted June 18, 2017 This was really good! Elmer's son Peter conducted the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, while director John Landis proved to be a witty and engaging host. The pieces performed were as follows: National Geographic - Theme The Ten Commandments - Suite Hawaii - Main Titles Hollywood and the Stars - Theme The Man with the Golden Arm - Theme To Kill a Mockingbird - Suite The Magnificent Seven - Suite - INTERVAL - Walk on the Wild Side - Theme From the Terrace - Suite Three Amigos! - End Titles The Age of Innocence - Waltz and End Titles An American Werewolf in London - Suite The Great Escape - Suite - ENCORE - The Sweet Smell of Success - Theme The second half included a number of concert premieres / new arrangements. The hall was probably only about half full, which was a pity, although it did mean that lots of people with tickets for the circle were upgraded to the stalls and arena. Jenny Agutter was amongst those in the audience. Ricard and Disco Stu 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 Great program! Includes most of my favorite Bernstein scores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,349 Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Why not include Far from Heaven? It's the only Bernstein score I know and for a career finale it sounded extraordinary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 14 minutes ago, bollemanneke said: Why not include Far from Heaven? It's the only Bernstein score I know and for a career finale it sounded extraordinary. You need to at least listen to To Kill a Mockingbird. It's one of the great film scores of all time, a true classic I think all film score fans should be familiar with. Oh, and of course our own John Williams played piano on the original score recording (there have been a couple of different re-recordings of the score that have supplanted the original). Try just the last two tracks here in this one Youtube video. Wonderful music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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