“Where have all the symphonies gone? To the Silver Screen!” writes Kim Allen Kluge, music director of the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra, in Wednesday’s (7/15) Alexandria Gazette Packet (Alexandria, Va.). “Each [of five concerts] in the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra’s 2015-2016 season focuses on one contemporary film composer and explores the composers and symphonic traditions that shaped that unique musical style. The season opener … features music from John Williams’s film scores to ET and Star Wars. The concert includes … Holst’s The Planets, in its entirety.… ‘Whimsy & Wonderment’ explores the profound influence that Prokofiev and Stravinsky exerted on … Danny Elfman,” composer of Spiderman and Edward Scissorhands. … ‘The Dramatic’ explores the influence of verismo Italian opera on the musical style of The Godfather’s composer Nino Rota…. ‘Lushness & Lyricism’ pairs James Newton Howard’s lyrical setting of Peter Pan with … the Waltz from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy and Smetana’s The Moldau.” The Alexandria Symphony will perform Hans Zimmer’s Concert Suite from The Dark Knight on a program that includes Copland’s Rodeo, Gershwin’s An American in Paris, and the premiere of a piano concerto composed by Kim Allen Kluge and his wife, Kathryn Vassar Kluge.
Posted July 17, 2015
