![]() ![]() John Williams’ scores are instantly recognizable, filled with soaring melodies, poignant emotion, and thrilling moments. Saturday, July 8, 8PM (John Williams 100th date conducting the LA Phil) Maestro of the Movies: John Williams with the LA Phil Lorne Balfe leads the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra in music selections and suites from Arcane, Diablo, Elden Ring, Final Fantasy® XVI, God of War, Hades, Hogwarts Legacy, League of Legends, Marvel’s Spider-Man, Starfield, Star Wars Jedi, The Last of Us, and live performances by Gustavo Santaolalla and Tenacious D. This special live concert event celebrates the unforgettable role music plays in video games. June 25: The Game Awards 10–Year Concert with FireworksĬelebrating the past decade of video game music and looking ahead to its future. ![]() WIZARDING WORLD and all related trademarks, characters, names, and indicia are © & ™ Warner Bros. The 2023 season offers the epic finale to the Harry Potter Film Concert Series with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows™ Part 2, bringing the final chapter to the big screens as the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra performs the dazzling score by Alexandre Desplat June 24: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows™ Part 2 in Concert The Hollywood Bowl 2023 season offers more than 20 classical programs including Gustavo Dudamel, Music & Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, returning for his 14 th Hollywood Bowl season. Once again, the Hollywood Bowl is back to thrill audiences with evenings for the upcoming “Music from the Stage and Screen.” Kubrick’s trust in his audience was repaid.Star Wars, Harry Potter, The Game Awards and Hayao Miyazaki’s films with Studio Ghibli. But get this: When the composer credits were flashed on screen, the one who got the biggest ovation was Ligeti. The turnout was huge for a Bowl weekday - not posted, but estimated at more than 11,000 by an usher - and a good deal of the audience behaved like a movie crowd, laughing and applauding at times, with many leaving en masse as the credits rolled while the philharmonic was still stoically playing the “Blue Danube” onstage. Same with the Adagio from Khachaturian’s “Gayane,” given a lovely, patient rendition, and Ligeti’s “Lux Aeterna.” ![]() Film audiences may be used to these sound levels, but it doesn’t do justice to this incredible music.įortunately, Johann Strauss Jr.’s “Blue Danube” Waltz wasn’t subjected to such sonic mayhem, and Lubman led it with considerable sway and grace, syncing with the footsteps of a flight attendant in the film. In the excerpts from Ligeti’s Requiem, Lubman led members of the Los Angeles Master Chorale with skill and fervor, but the voices sounded distorted at peak level, almost drowning out the instruments.ĭuring the stunning “Star Gate” sequence, where the Requiem, “Atmospheres” and an electronic alteration of Ligeti’s “Aventures” follow in succession, the Bowl seemed to shake with unpleasantly deafening bass rumbling. Yet the initial thrills soon threatened to spill into overkill, for the sound level was sometimes cranked up to the level of a rock concert. And one has to admit, the “Sunrise” opening has never sounded so thrilling as when heard by a live orchestra outdoors with the unforgettable corresponding images on the big screens, validating Kubrick’s original vision. Lubman immediately made an impression, leading a powerful rendition of an excerpt from Ligeti’s “Atmospheres” prior to the film’s opening sequence. With the Ligeti pieces most likely in mind, the phil turned to a new music person, Brad Lubman - whose Ensemble Signal participated in the Next On Grand concerts in May - to conduct. It was easy to let go of any grappling with the film’s amorphous story line and just take the thing in as a spectacular, sensual, abstract light show. Yet all of these were done indoors, so seeing and hearing this sci-fi space-travel film under the stars added an extra dimension to the experience. ![]() There were live-orchestra screenings of “2001” in London in 2010 and Birmingham, England, in 2013 the San Francisco Symphony performed a “2001” program last September, albeit playing complete works without the film. ![]()
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