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EDEN COURT caird hall tramway the queen's hall INVERNESS glasgow edinburgh 10 Sep 14 Sep 15 Sep 16 Sep welcome to silver screen sounds 3 by In His Cell from Dracula Over the course of the concert, you'll hear music chosen to accompany films and extracts from scores written specifically for the screen. There'll be pauses between some, and others will flow into the next. We recommend following along with your listings insert, dracula (1931) and using this guide as extra reading. Directed by Todd Browning Browing's infamously low-budget black-and-white classic didn't by 1 Prelude originally have a soundtrack, instead featuring just three pieces from of - Swan Lake, in the opening credits, as well as Wagner's from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and the start psycho (1960) of Schubert's Unfinished during a scene set at the .

Directed by At the time the film was made, music in films was a relatively "When a director finds a who understands them, who can new innovation, and there was quite a prominent belief that get inside their head, who can second-guess them correctly, they're just the audience would not understand or accept music in the film going to want to stick with that person. And Psycho... was just one unless it was obviously explained by a visual object, or referenced of these absolute instant connections of perfect union of music and in the storyline (the at the concert hall, in this case). image, and Hitchcock at his best, and Bernard Herrmann at his best." In 1998, Philip Glass was commissioned to write a new Film composer soundtrack, with a fairly blank canvas. He chose to write what Herrmann's now-equally-iconic soundtrack to Hitchcock's iconic is essentially , both in order to match the 19th- film showed generations of filmmakers to come the power that century setting of the story and the claustrophobic domesticity music could have. It's a rare example of a composed for of its spaces - libraries, hallways, gardens - but also to free himself "I want you to believe... strings only, a restriction of tonal colour that was, according to an from the chains of the orchestral 'horror movie soundtrack', by interview with Herrmann, intended as the musical equivalent of this point a recognised concept and sound. to believe in things that Hitchcock's choice of black and white (Hitchcock had originally you cannot." requested a score, as well as for the shower scene to be silent; The result is a close, intimate collection of miniatures which Herrmann clearly decided he knew better). and complements the curious, mysterious, seductive and psychological personality of the film, eschewing the conventional Also known as the 'Psycho theme', this prelude is frenetic and horror tropes in favour of delicate emotional nuances. "A boy's best friend fast-paced, suggesting flight and pursuit. Given that this is not what the film's nature or subject matter develops into, some have by is his mother..." noted Herrmann's deliberately off-putting theme as a clever nod 4 Gabriel's [arr. Manson] to the red-herring nature of the first third of the film. Once from the notorious shower scene rather abruptly turns the film from thriller to slasher, the music becomes much more static, and the The mission (1986) prelude comes back only very subtly. Directed by Roland Joffé by This main theme from the award-winning soundtrack by the now 2 Future Markets from There Will Be Blood legendary film composer Ennio Morricone has been arranged and performed by a huge number of artists, including cellist Yo- there will be blood (2007) Yo Ma, oboist Brynjar Hoff and vocalist as Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson well as across the world. Composer and guitarist Jonny Greenwood provided the It features most prominently in the film when the protagonist, widely-admired score for Anderson's story of family, religion, hatred the Jesuit Father Gabriel () tries to connect with and madness in the pursuit for oil in turn-of-the-century California. the South American natives through his music. In a significant Writing in a striking language influenced by Oliver Messiaen and scene, his oboe is snapped in two by the Guarani chief - marking Krzystof Penderecki, his score also included extracts from works the start of his bond with the tribesmen. by Arvo Pärt and Brahms - which officially deemed it ineligible for Gabriel's Oboe authorised for the exclusive use of Scottish Ensemble (). Licensed by Tresona nomination as an 'original soundtrack' at the major film awards. Multimedia, LLC, Tresona License Number 316462. Arranged for string orchestra by Jamie Manson. by Bernard Herrmann by 5 11 The City from Psycho Adagio For Strings from Platoon by Philip Glass 6 Journey to the Inn platoon (1986) It's difficult to describe the astonishing emotional effect of from Dracula Barber's Adagio, or even just the opening four bars, without Directed by falling into hyperbole. But ironically, this is exactly what the by Bernard Herrmann 7 piece does not command. Its sense of pathos, dripping from the The Water from Psycho slow shift of the strings, mostly in small, tentative steps around the home note, is honest and unpretentious. It doesn't strive or by reach or try, just simply exists - the quality which perhaps lends 8 German Dance No. 1 in CDid Major you know? from Barry Lyndon the feeling of catharsis that so many listeners associate with the piece. barry lyndon (1975) Because of its austere and seemingly universal effect, Barber's Directed by Stanley Kubrick most famous work, which began as the second movement of his before being scored for string orchestra, has been Based on the novel by Thackeray and following the exploits of used widely not only in films but in TV, computer games, and an 18th-century Irish adventurer, this period drama is widely at ceremonies and events. However, one of its most powerful considered to be one of Kubrick's finest yet most underrated films, and memorable uses in cinema must surely be Platoon, an anti- overshadowed by a long list of groundbreaking and now-iconic war film written by a Vietnam veteran, intended to counter works (2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange and The Shining, to the glorification of war in so many other representations (most name just three). specifically, John Wayne's The Green Berets). The piece appears in the brutal and harrowing death scene of Elias, the 'good Typical of Kubrick's style, classical music is used not just as marine' who has been betrayed by his sergeant. a means of generic soundtrack, but as an active element in his vision. One of the themes of Barry Lyndon is the jarring contrast by Philip Glass between lavish courtly excess, with its veneer of courtesy, and the 12 "Excellent, Mr Renfield" from Dracula underlying antagonism coming from the potato fields and the back- alley parties. This is excellently represented in the juxtaposition of by Toru Takemitsu over-the-top, over-romanticised and rather flat-sounding famous 13 Music of Training and Rest classical works with rough, rustic Irish folk tunes throughout the from Jose Torres film. Handel's well-known Sarabande from the Suite in D minor, used in the opening credits, really sets this idea in motion before jose torres (1959) Takemitsu's prolific output of film music was propelled by his we hear pieces by Mozart, Vivaldi and Schubert, whose elegant "After reaching the Directed by intense love of cinema (he claimed to attend more films than yet spritely German Dance captures all the poise and manners of anyone else in Japan, around 300 a year), and his knowledge top, where can you a courtly 18th-century ceremony. Hiroshi Teshigahara of the medium seems to come across in each one of his scores. go except down?" Jose Torres was a pair of documentaries by avant- garde and much-celebrated Japanese film director Hiroshi by Philip Glass 9 Women in White Teshigaraha - the first person of Asian descent to be nominated from Dracula for the Academy Award for Best Director. It seems only fitting that he would ask Toru Takemitsu, one of the first to 10 by Bernard Herrmann significantly bridge East and West, to score his gritty New York The Stairs from Psycho documentary on the Puerto Rican boxer. As the title suggests, this piece contrasts "training music" - propelling, rhythmic, Or, 'the other murder scene'; this track accompanies the equally using light, surprising tango to mimic a boxer on his shocking sequence of Detective Arbogast slowly and silently toes - with softer, more lyrical swathes of "rest", all within a climbing the stairs at the Bates Motel. As the music ominously jazz-and-contemporary inspired framework which showcases creeps and shimmers, the audience sees the door at the top of his range as a composer. the stairs creaking open - with the murderer's sudden appearance heralded by the famous motif of the shrieking violins. interval (approx. 20 mins) by by Bernard Herrmann 14 Hoe Down 25 from He Got Game from Psycho by Philip Glass 15 Possibly one of the most famous soundtrack excerpts of all time, The Storm from Dracula it's easy to see why Herrmann's screeching violins, accompanying the murder scene in the shower, have become cultural shorthand by Ennio Morricone 16 for terror. from Cinema Paradiso

26 String Quartet No. 2 (mvt four) by Leoš Janáček cinema paradiso (1988) [arr. Valve] from The Unbearable Lightness Of Being Directed by the unbearable lightness Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1989, of being (1988) this charming, coming-of-age tale is the story of the young Directed by Philip Kaufman Salvatore Di Vita, who discovers the perfect escape from his life in a war-torn Sicilian village: the Cinema Pardiso movie house. Set during the 1968 Prague Spring, this film adaptation of Czech author Milan Kundara’s novel of the same name follows Scored entirely by Morricone and his son, Andrea, the music three bohemian friends, exploring the moral, political and sexual perfectly captures the soft-hued, gentle nostalgia of the film, consequences of the historic socialist liberalization which occurred creating a masterfully unobtrusive soundtrack which adds a before the subsequent invasion that plunged the country back subtle depth to each scene. This graceful, wistfully romantic beneath communist repression. With Kundera allegedly citing title theme - originally written for solo and orchestra - is Janáček as his favourite composer, it is no coincidence that the revisited in most of the tracks. soundtrack is nearly entirely made of works by the Czech composer.

Arranged for string orchestra by Timo-Veikko Valve. 17 by Philip Glass The Crypt from Dracula by Craig Armstrong 27 Dream Violin by Claude Debussy from The Great Gatsby 18 Pour l'Egyptienne [arr. Paillard] from Henry and June the great gatsby (2013) by Bernard Herrmann Directed by Baz Luhrmann 19 The Swamp from Psycho Luhrmann's 2013 blockbuster was full of his trademark visual by Philip Glass splendour, colour and spectacle and, as with previous films such 20 London Fog from Dracula as Moulin Rouge! and Romeo + Juliet, the soundtrack is very much a character in its own right, appearing prominently in the foreground.

21 String Quartet No. 1 in G Minor by Claude Debussy Lurhmann's vision was to give a modern spin on the daring jazz of [arr. Morton] (mvt one) from Six Degrees of Separation the film's 1920s American setting. Having previously worked with Lurhmann on the above films and more, Scottish composer Craig by Jonny Greenwood Armstrong was again approached to provide the score. The result is 22 Prospector's Quartet from There Will Be Blood a series of orchestral tracks of extreme beauty and longing, which sit alongside a soundtrack of new compositions from a who's who by Bernard Herrmann So we beat on, boats of pop. Produced by Jay-Z and The Bullitts, it included new tracks 23 The Cellar from Psycho against the current, by Lana Del Rey, Florence and the Machine, Beyoncé and André borne back ceaselessly 3000, Jack White and The xx. The official recording of Armstrong's by Philip Glass soundtrack features his long term collaborator (and former Scottish 24 Carriage Without a Driver into the past. Ensemble Artistic Director), the violinist Clio Gould, who performs from Dracula on Dream Violin amongst other tracks. Leader Jonathan Morton Violin Cheryl Crockett, Daniel Pioro, Liza Johnson Violin Colin Scobie, Laura Ghiro, Emily Nenniger Viola Jane Atkins, Andrew Berridge Alison Lawrance, Naomi Pavri, Balasz Renczes* James Manson, Ben Burnley*

*SE Young Artists (from Royal Conservatoire of )

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