[FA Worldmusic] Music on Film / Film on Music

[kapilian]

Not intended as self-promotion, but as an FYI as regards film and music, 
this year I will be producing two different original large-scale complex 
film music concert events, both of which have had their premiers already 
at major venues in the UK and the US.

The Movie Music of Spike Lee and Terence Blanchard will be presented on 
June 9, 2007 at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New 
Haven, CT., on December 8, 2007 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, 
D.C., on April 19, 2008 at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, and 
possibly at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam on July 13, 2007 
(tbc).  Each performance features Spike as host, Terence leading his 
quintet and orchestra, with special guest vocalists and projected images 
throughout the performances, which feature original score music and 
songs from a wide range of Spike's films - this year prominently 
featuring Spike's recent HBO film "When The Levees Broke".

Nightmare Romance: Bernard Herrmann and Hitchcock will be presented at 
the great Les Nuits des Fourviere Festival in Lyon on July 6, 2007.  It 
includes Joel McNeely conducting a 72-piece orchestra, with interpretive 
performances by a quintet featuring bassist/arranger Greg Cohen and Marc 
Ribot on guitar, with live narration, original film images (Hitchcock's 
storyboards, for example).  The performances includes Herrmann's 
brilliant groundbreaking music from Psycho, Marnie, North By Northwest 
and Vertigo, plus Citizen Kane, Fahrenheit 451, and Taxi Driver.

Film is an incredible vehicle for music, and vice versa.  I intend to be 
exploring all of these intersecting worlds further, and I hope this is 
not an intrusion, but will open some more interesting discussion on the 
subject.

- Danny Kapilian