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23 March 2025 Genève (Geneva) (Switzerland)
Hollywood Golden Age, Grand concert of Film Music
L'orchestre Symphonique Bande-son conducted by Thierry Besançon - Victoria Hall
Soundtracks date back to the origins of American film music
At a time when film music is finally coming to the forefront, when orchestras from all over the world are tackling this repertoire and when the public is showing growing interest in it, the Bande-Son Symphony Orchestra offers a discovery of the origins of American film music.
Hollywood, 1930s-1960s: With the advent of talking cinema, film music evolved and its importance grew. Each studio has its own orchestra and its assigned composers, often Europeans. Indeed, during this period, many musicians coming mainly from Eastern Europe left the continent to escape the rise of Nazism. Many of them received training from the great names of classical music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold is a disciple of Zemlinsky, Dimitri Tiomkin a student of Glazounov, Max Steiner received advice from Mahler, Miklós Rózsa and Maurice Jarre worked alongside Honegger, Elmer Bernstein and Alex North studied under Aaron Copland.
Marked by Germanic post-romanticism, the most beautiful Wagnerian pages to the ear, the composers of the golden age of Hollywood cinema forged a musical identity specific to American films of this era and developed new writing techniques and of orchestration conducive to great orchestral frescoes.
Golden Age composers gave birth to American film music. This concert is dedicated to them.
Miklós Rózsa - Ben-Hur Maurice Jarre - Lawrence of Arabia Max Steiner - Gone with the Wind Elmer Bernstein - The Ten Commandments Bernard Herrmann - North by Northwest Franz Waxman - Prince valiant Erich Wolfgang Korngold - The Adventures of Robin Hood David Raskin - Laura Alex North - Cleopatra Alfred Newman - Wuthering Heights Dimitri Tiomkin - The Fall of the Roman Empire
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