Pioneering Film Scores and Unconventional Approaches
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Pioneering Film Scores and Unconventional Approaches
This program will be held in Hungarian.
In their interactive musical performance series entitled Music in Cinema, László Pirisi and Petra Grisnik explore film music, this time focusing on the brave pioneers. What does Morse code have to do with the music of Mission Impossible? How did Ennio Morricone bring his experience from musical experiments to the world of westerns? How much of the success of Psycho was due to composer Bernard Herrmann's ideas? How daring is it to fill a coming-of-age/romantic film set in the 1960s with songs from the 1980s, as they did in Dirty Dancing?
This lecture is about innovators. About pioneers of film music, mad professors, composers, music supervisors, and directors, creators who have at least once approached film music in a way that no one had done before. We examine the related rumors, insider information, and in some cases, how the impact of a scene would have been different if the composer had chosen the "usual" approach for that era. All this, of course, in a lighthearted, interactive, and playful way.
Rock Troubadours (US, 70s): CSNY, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison, Roy Harper
