Sinfonieorchester Basel
John Wilson, conductor
Alfred Newman: Fox Fanfare
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Kings Row, Main Title
David Raksin: Laura
Bernard Herrmann: Psycho, Suite for Strings
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: The Adventures of Robin Hood
Jerome Moross: The Big Country, Main Title
Max Steiner: Gone with the Wind, Suite
Franz Waxman: A Place in the Sun, Suite
Scott Bradley: Tom and Jerry at MGM
Miklós Rózsa: Parade of the Charioteers from Ben Hur
Virtually no other place epitomises the American dream “of plate washer to millionaire” more strongly than Hollywood. With the merger of films and musicals, a golden age began in Los Angeles in the 1920s. In the last few years, British conductor John Wilson has rescued and painstakingly restored numerous scores from this phase of American film history, which lasted until 1960. However, during this concert he will not take his usual place behind the baton of his world-renowned John Wilson orchestra, with whom he guest stars regularly during the BBC Proms, but instead get the Sinfonieorchester Basel “swinging”. Besides the melodies from famous film classics such as Gone with the Wind, Psycho and Ben Hur Tom and Jerry also needs to take pride of place.
Golden Hollywood
Symphony Concert
Donnerstag, 07 Mai 2020
19:30
6.30pm: Introduction to the concert (in German) at the Musical Theater (1st floor, not accessible for wheelchairs)