Prom 65 - 31.08.13: Film Music Prom

[edashtav]

What the F**k
HOW on earth can you have an "excerpt" from Atmosphères ????

It was a "gas", man.

[edashtav]

Ice Cold in Alex - perfect description.

I was please to hear the Richard Rodney Bennett as a pleasant memorial to a composer who lost his way.

[Nick Armstrong]

David Arnold: Independence Day - closing title
Jerry Goldsmith: Alien - closing title

I tuned in on getting home, and heard the above, which confirmed my sense of the disservice that's done by ripping music like this from its proper context and presenting it to stand alone. The pieces sounded inconsequential, repetitive, clearly written by the yard - or rather, by the second: quite rightly, they were produced to do a job, within a very limited time-frame. I thought the Goldsmith in particular sounded faintly ludicrous, like a 'vamp till ready' before some main musical action - but no, it ended, and there was applause. It's really effective in situ. It's a waste of (admittedly, not much) time standing alone.

Rare are the film tracks that can stand alone (the Hermann 'Psycho' car drive music, heard in the Hollywood Prom, being one such rarity imo )

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

What the F**k
HOW on earth can you have an "excerpt" from Atmosphères ????

Wolfgang Rihm's Sphere?


(Welcome back, MrGG - hope the break was great!)

[Serial_Apologist]

Ice Cold in Alex - perfect description.

I was please to hear the Richard Rodney Bennett as a pleasant memorial to a composer who lost his way.

The Lady Caroline Lamb suite was the only piece of 20th century classical music that my dear old mum liked.

[Frances_iom]

it was an end of holiday prom - more typical of old style R2 than R3 but now touted as core R3 material - as others pointed out music written specifically for a film is generally tedious when heard away from context tho it probably sounded better in the Hall and no doubt many of the audience were replaying the films in their mind. The music that could stand on its own was usually that 'borrowed' (or in one case stolen) for use in a film

[secondfiddle]

The Lady Caroline Lamb suite was the only piece of 20th century classical music that my dear old mum liked.

Really good to hear the Richard Rodney Bennett piece. A multi-talented composer, much missed. Does anyone else hear some similarity between the principal themes of 'Lady Caroline Lamb' (on viola) and John Williams' much later 'Schindler's List' score (on violin)?

[Anna]

As it may not have been mentioned, and possibly of interest to some - the BBC across all platforms are producing a series of programmes under the banner of Sound of the Cinema. Details here from the press office.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2013/sound-of-cinema.html

[french frank]

As it may not have been mentioned, and possibly of interest to some - the BBC across all platforms are producing a series of programmes under the banner of Sound of the Cinema. Details here from the press office.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/lat...of-cinema.html

I'm not sure that it's quite ALL platforms, is it? Those that are participating seem to have the odd 4-5 part series. Only Radio 3 has a 'three-week' season involving a number of regular programmes, so I'd assumed the other stations were part of a BBC cross-promotion for Radio 3.

I can't see that BBC Two or Radio 2 are participating except, possibly, with trailers.