For Immediate Release: Press Contacts: October 15, 2015 Eileen Chambers, 312-294-3092 Rachelle Roe, 312-294-3090
Photos Available By Request [email protected] CSO AT THE MOVIES 2015/16 SERIES OPENS WITH ON THE WATERFRONT FILM WITH LIVE ORCHESTRA
Screening of the Academy Award®-winning Film Features Performance of Leonard Bernstein’s Score by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Friday, October 23, 8 p.m.
CHICAGO—The CSO at the Movies 2015/16 series opens with On the Waterfront Film With Live Orchestra on Friday, October 23 at 8 p.m.. The screening of Elia Kazan’s Academy Award®–winning film features a live performance of Leonard Bernstein’s score by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Center. On The Waterfront Film with Live Orchestra is presented in cooperation with Columbia Pictures, a Sony Company.
Conductor Richard Kaufman returns to the podium to lead this CSO at the Movies performance of Bernstein’s pulsating original score. Kaufman has been a regular guest conductor on the CSO at the Movies series since 2004 and will also lead film programs at Symphony Center in December 2015 and May 2016.
On the Waterfront premiered in 1954 and won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Story and Screenplay and Best Actor for Marlon Brando’s portrayal of a boxer-turned- dockworker caught up in the dark and violent world of mob-controlled unions. The film’s Oscar- winning screenplay by Budd Schulberg is based on a series of Pulitzer Prize-winning articles by Malcolm Johnson that appeared in The Sun in 1949 and detailed the corruption that permeated the waterfront of Hoboken, New Jersey. The film stars Marlon Brando, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, Rod Steiger and Eva Marie Saint.
The film’s dark undercurrent runs throughout Bernstein’s score, with exciting, quick and sinister notes complementing the movie’s film noir elements. The music earned an Academy Award®- nomination for Best Score, and remains known as one of Bernstein’s greatest works—indeed, his only original score for film.
Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918- October 14, 1990) was a world-renowned musician throughout his entire adult life. He was Music Director of the New York Philharmonic and conducted the world’s major orchestras recording hundreds of these performances. His books
and the televised Young People’s Concerts with the New York Philharmonic established him as a leading educator.
His compositions include Jeremiah, The Age of Anxiety, Kaddish, Serenade, Five Anniversaries, Mass, Chichester Psalms, Slava!, Songfest, Divertimento for Orchestra,Missa Brevis, Arias and Barcarolles, Concerto for Orchestra and A Quiet Place. Bernstein composed for the Broadway musical stage, including On the Town, Wonderful Town,Candide and the immensely popular West Side Story. In addition to the West Side Story collaboration, Bernstein worked with choreographer Jerome Robbins on three major ballets, Fancy Free, Facsimile and Dybbk. Bernstein was the recipient of many honors, including, the Antoinette Perry Tony Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Theater, eleven Emmy Award, the Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award and the Kennedy Center Honors.
On the Waterfront Film With Live Orchestra is one of three film programs in the 2015/16 CSO at the Movies series. Remaining film presentations in the series include Alan Silvestri’s score for the 1980’s sci-fi hit Back to the Future on Friday, March 4 at 8 p.m. and “Hooray for Hollywood,” a journey through cinema history with selections from classic movies Citizen Kane, Gone with the Wind, King Kong, Star Trek and more on Friday, May 6 at 8 p.m.
Richard Kaufman also leads three special holiday presentations of the classic comedy Home Alone with the John Williams’ score performed live by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Friday, December 11, at 7 p.m., Saturday, December 12, at 3 p.m. and Sunday, December 13, at 3 p.m.
Tickets for all CSOA-presented concerts can be purchased by phone at 800-223-7114 or 312- 294-3000; online at cso.org, or at the Symphony Center box office: 220 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60604. Discounted student tickets for select concerts can be purchased, subject to availability, online in advance or at the box office on the day of the concert. For group rates, please call 312-294-3040.
Artists, programs and prices are subject to change.
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra Friday, Oct. 23, 2015, 8 p.m. CSO at the Movies Chicago Symphony Orchestra Richard Kaufman, conductor
BERNSTEIN On the Waterfront
Tickets: $34-$110
Richard Kaufman Richard Kaufman has devoted much of his musical life to conducting and supervising music for film and television productions, as well as performing film and classical music in concert halls and on recordings. The 2015-16 concert season marks his tenth year with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert series, “CSO at the Movies.” Kaufman will soon begin his 25th season as Principal Pops Conductor of Pacific
Symphony. This past May, Kaufman made his conducting debut with the Boston Pops Orchestra, substituting for John Williams at the Annual Boston Pops Film Night.
Kaufman received the 1993 Grammy Award in the category of Best Pop Instrumental Performance. In addition to his two recordings with the London Symphony Orchestra, he has recorded CDs with the Nuremberg Symphony, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the Brandenburg Philharmonic in Berlin. As a violinist, Kaufman performed on numerous film and television scores including Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Saturday Night Fever and (in a moment of desperation) Animal House. He has recorded with artists including John Denver, Burt Bacharach, Neil Sedaka, The Carpenters and Ray Charles.
Kaufman joined the music department of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in 1984 as music coordinator, and for the next 18 years supervised music for MGM. He received two Emmy Award nominations, one for the animated series, The Pink Panther, in the category of Outstanding Music Direction and Composition, and another for Outstanding Original Song co-authored for the series, All Dogs Go to Heaven. For the MGM television series In the Heat of the Night, Kaufman composed songs with actor/producer Carroll O’Connor. He conducted the scores for films including Guarding Tess and Jungle to Jungle. As a unique part of his career in film, Kaufman has coached various actors in musical roles including Jack Nicholson, Dudley Moore and Tom Hanks.
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