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Aug 18, 2016 - 4:33 AM
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Smaug
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In leading up to this American premiere of Horner's Double Conceeto, I was Just thinking at this moment how it's a nice little trend that very recently a bunch of film composers have dived into writing away from film: Horner: Double Concerto for Violin and Cello "Pas de Deux" Concerto for Four Horns "Collage" Flight James Newton Howard: Violin Concerto I Would Plant a Tree Elfman: Overeager Overture Rabbit & Rogue Desplat: Sinfonie Concertante for flute and orchestra "pelleas et melisande" Etudes for Piano Howard Shore: Piano Concerto Cello Concerto Guitar Concerto The Fly opera 21st Century Overture A Palace upon the Ruin Thomas Newman: "It Got Dark" for string quartet and orchestra John Powel: "Moltke" a war oratorio Jeff Beal: The Salvage Men Of course the contributions of Desplat, Williams, Randy Newman, Giacchino, et al who contributed to Gloria Cheng's Montage. I hold composers like Williams (a dozen concertos), Morricone (recently his Pope Francis Mass), Glass (a dozen concertos and 11 symphonies) or even Goldenthal to be different with a career long commitment to writing for the concert hall, not just a flirtation. What's impressive about the above list is that these are composers that are in high demand...so it was a big gesture for them to take time away. Perhaps some less busy composers also prefer to stay active even if Hollywood isn't calling at the moment. I'm always happy to see my favorite composers busy making music. With that said Williams recently premiered a number of pieces, Glass's Symphony No.11 premieres at Carnegie in January on his 80th birthday, Goldenthal is composing his Third Symphony and a Trumpet Concerto and there's the whole other sub category of Classical composers who write film scores only occasionally like Corigliano or Tan Dun. I'm still waiting for a concert piece from Silvestri or Zimmer. Giacchino wrote his "Camden Symphony" years ago. I'd love for him to have another go at writing something...
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Elliot Goldenthal's OTHELLO is a favourite (although I'm not sure if a ballet qualifies as a concert work). It does if it's played in concert. ;-)
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