Matt S. 493 Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 Just announced a few days ago, with tickets going on sale today September 7 at 10am ET...Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Orchestra are playing Bernard Herrmann's score to PSYCHO live to picture, on October 29 and 31 (Halloween). https://www.bso.org/Performance/Detail/98547 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 That's pretty awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,550 Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 It's really...cutting edge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,370 Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 Wow, that's pretty cool! Unfortunately, I'll be in Paris at the time. Oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 I saw this at the Sydney Opera House about a decade ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt S. 493 Posted October 29, 2018 Author Share Posted October 29, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted October 29, 2018 Share Posted October 29, 2018 Sweet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 I saw it in the cinema in London just a few days ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,370 Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 So cool, Matt S! We would have gone if we weren't in France. How was it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 They keep it up with Psycho because they don't have to pay a full orchestra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt S. 493 Posted October 30, 2018 Author Share Posted October 30, 2018 It was a great show, as expected. Anyone who's been knows Keith Lockhart and the Pops always do a wonderful job. If there was a critique to be made, however, I think Boston's Symphony Hall might not have been the best place to put on this show; the warm, resonant acoustics of the Hall didn't seem to match the tone of the music itself. I noticed it right away with the film's main title sequence. It could be that I'm just so used to the mix of the original film score, but I missed the drier, edgier sound that really gave it a harsh, choppy quality. This is not meant as a knock on the orchestra; they did a fantastic job, no question. And I'm well aware that these live-to-picture concerts are concerts first and films second (with no intention to actually replace or improve upon the original performance), so at the same time it was definitely nice to hear the score in a live, full-bodied sound. It was just...different, I guess, to hear. The previous LTP films I've been to (Home Alone, ET, Jaws, and Raiders) weren't quite so noticeable. Also of interest: in the past live-to-picture concerts, the conductor has a screen in front of him with the film showing, with colored lines scrolling across the screen so he can hit the sync points of the music. Last night, Lockhart had two screens; one showed the film (without the colored scrolling lines), while the second screen had a large analog clock, like a stopwatch. He must have been conducting the cues to the written timings, rather than sync points? Impressive, if that was indeed the case. (I had floor seats, so I didn't have the best vantage point to see exactly how he was doing it, but I'm guessing that was the case?) Jay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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