Pops Concert: LSO Goes to the Movies
Saturday, May 6th @ 7:30pm
Vance Brand Civic Auditorium
Celebrate our final performance of the season with fantastic scores from some of your favorite films! Whether you love action, thrillers, fantasy, or romance—be prepared to swoon and cheer as the Longmont Symphony Orchestra takes you to the movies!
Program Details
Music from
STAR WARS
Composed by John Williams
Music from
CINEMA PARADISO
Composed by Ennio Morricone
A Medley for Orchestra
THEMES FROM 007
Arranged by Calvin Custer
Music from
LORD OF THE RINGS
Composed by Howard Shore
Intermission — After Lord of the Rings
Music from
HARRY POTTER
Composed by John Williams
Music from
SCENT OF A WOMAN—TANGO
Composed by Carlos Gardel
Theme from
SCHINDLER’S LIST
Composed by John Williams
Music from
SPIDER-MAN
Composed by Danny Elfman
Music from
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
Composed by Hans Zimmer
Music from
MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
Composed by Elmer Bernstein
Music from
MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
Composed by Elmer Bernstein
Music from
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
Composed by John Powell
Star Wars: A New Hope
Composed by John Williams
“A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, an incredible adventure took place…” So begins George Lucas’s Star Wars, the first in a trilogy of films to be followed by The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi...
More About John Williams
Born in New York, John Williams studied with Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco in California and at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. After playing piano in the 20th Century Fox Studio Orchestra, he began his career as a composer of film music. After the death of Arthur Fiedler in 1979, Williams was appointed conductor and music director of the Boston Pops Orchestra, a post he retained until 1993. He is now Boston Pops laureate conductor, as well as artist-in-residence at Tanglewood. Williams has composed the music and served as a music director for more than a hundred films, including Saving Private Ryan, Minority Report, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws, The Poseidon Adventure, Superman, The Empire Strikes Back, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Jurassic Park. He has been nominated for the Academy Award 52 times, and has won five of them. “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, an incredible adventure took place…” So begins George Lucas’s Star Wars, the first in a trilogy of films to be followed by The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Starring Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia, Harrison Ford as Han Solo, Alec Guinness as Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi, and the voice of James Earl Jones as Darth Vader, Star Wars opened in 1977 and became one of the biggest box-office successes of all time. It won seven Oscars, including one for John Williams’s score.Cinema Paradiso
Composed by Ennio Morricone, Arranged by Angela Morley
Morricone’s score for Giuseppe Tornatore’s Cinema Paradiso won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1989, as well as the Cannes Film Festival’s Grand Prix. Set in a small Sicilian town, the story concerns a young boy and an elderly projectionist at a movie theater named Cinema Paradiso.
More About Ennio Morricone
Morriccone has written over 450 scores for cinema and television, and more than 100 classical works. He is perhaps best known for his music to Sergio Leone’s “spaghetti Westerns”: A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and others. The soundtrack from the film The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2009. Besides Leone, Morricone has worked with numerous international directors, including Bernardo Bertolucci, Lina Wertmuller, Brian De Palma, Roman Polanski, Oliver Stone, and Pedro Almodovar, among others. In 2007, he received the Academy Honorary Award “for his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music”.How to Train Your Dragon
Composed by John Powell
John Powell's 2010 score to How to Train Your Dragon, his sixth DreamWorks Animation, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score.
More About John Powell
Powell took violin lessons as a child, later studying at London’s Trinity College of Music. After moving to Los Angeles in 1997, he composed the scores to over fifty feature films, many in collaboration with Harry Gregson-Williams. These include Antz, Shrek, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, Robots, and The Italian Job.Magnificent Seven
Composed by Elmer Bernstein
The Magnificent Seven appeared in 1960. Based on Akira Kurosawa’s classic The Seven Samurai, it starred Eli Wallach, Horst Bucholz, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, Yul Brynner, and Steve McQueen. Its success produced a series of sequels and its main title was later used in Marlboro cigarette commercials. “The Magnificent Seven is no place to get sparse,” Bernstein once said...
More About Elmer Bernstein
“You’ve got a big, outdoor film that was a bit on the slow-moving side, and it needed a kind of vigorous score to get in there and really fight…. The purpose of the music… was largely to accent excitement, but it also served in a quite specific way to provide pacing to a film which would have been much slower without the score. When next you see the film, observe that the music is often faster in tempo than anything that is actually happening on the screen. The film needed music to help give it drive. In that sense, it is a quite physical score, as much foreground as background.” At the age of thirteen, Bernstein met Aaron Copland, who encouraged him to pursue composition. After study with Stefan Wolpe and Roger Sessions, he was an arranger for Glenn Miller’s Army Air Corps Band, then began composing a series of scores for B movies like Robot Monster and Cat Women of the Moon. Then came the better movies: The Man with the Golden Arm, The Ten Commandments, Walk on the Wild Side, To Kill a Mockingbird, Bird Man of Alcatraz, Hud, The Great Escape, The World of Henry Orient, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Airplane and Ghostbusters, among others.Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Composed by Howard Shore
Shore wrote the music for Peter Jackson’s film versions of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. The films are subtitled The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002), and The Return of the King (2003). The series won 17 out of its 30 Academy Award nominations, and The Fellowship of the Ring was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
More About Howard Shore
Born in Toronto, Canada, Howard Shore served as music director of Saturday Night Live from 1975–1980, composing the original theme song as well as the closing theme. He also began a collaboration with director David Cronenberg, scoring 15 of his films. In addition, he has written the scores for over 80 films, including Gangs of New York, The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, Mrs. Doubtfire and others.
Intermission
Harry Potter and
The Sorcerer’s Stone
Composed by John Williams
Williams composed the soundtracks for the first three Harry Potter films: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2002), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). Jerry Brubaker’s Symphonic Suite consists of “Hedwig’s Flight,” “Nimbus 2000”, “Hogwarts,” “Daigon Alley,” “Voldemort,” “Quidditch,” “Family Portrait” and “Leaving Hogwarts.”
Scent of a Woman—Tango
Composed by Carlos Gardel
Martin Brest’s film Scent of a Woman was released in 1992, and starred Al Pacino and Chris O’Donnell, with James Rebhorn, Philip S. Hoffman and Gabrielle Anwar. Pacino won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance. The soundtrack uses a tango, “Por una Cabeza,” originally composed in 1935 by Carlos Gardel, and rearranged by John Williams for his “Cinema Serenade” CD with violinist Itzhak Perlman.
Theme from Schindler’s List
Composed by John Williams
Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List premiered on November 30, 1993, in Washington, D.C. It starred Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, and Ben Kingsley. The music, by John Williams, won the Academy Award for Best Original Score, the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music, the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, and a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Original Score. The opening theme, titled “The Triumph of the Human Spirit,” featured violinist Itzhak Perlman.
Spiderman
Composed by Danny Elfman
In 2002 Elfman wrote the music for Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, the first installment in the Spider-Man trilogy. It starred Tobey Maguire as Spiderman, with Willem Dafoe, KirstenDunst, James Franco, Cliff Robertson and Rosemary Harris.
More About Danny Elfman
Four-time Oscar nominee Danny Elfman, has scored over 100 films, including: Milk (Oscar nominated), Good Will Hunting (Oscar nominated), Men in Black (Oscar nominated), Edward Scissorhands, Batman, and Justice League, among others. A native of Los Angeles, Elfman helped found the band Oingo Boingo, and came to the attention of a young Tim Burton, who asked him to write the score for Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. In addition to his film work, Elfman wrote the theme music for the television series The Simpsons and Desperate Housewives.Music from Pirates of Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Composed by Hans Zimmer
Zimmer has composed music for over 150 films, including The Lion King, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1995, Gladiator, The Last Samurai, The Dark Knight trilogy, and Dunkirk. He won a second Academy Award for Dune in 2022. In 2006 Zimmer wrote the music for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, the second installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean film series and the sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003). Directed by Gore Verbinski, and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, it starred Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Tom Hollander, Bill Nighy and Johnny Depp.
Single-Ticket Pricing
Adult: $29, Senior: $26, Student: $6
This concert is part of the Main-Stage and Complete Packages.
On-demand streaming of concerts will be available to every ticket holder within two weeks following the live performance.