National Symphony Orchestra Film Festival: Metropolis
Leonard Slatkin conducts a newly compiled score for a showing of Fritz Lang's silent movie masterpiece.
- 1 hour, 30 min
- $19.00 - $69.00
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About the Program
At the movies, one element does more than any other to heighten the suspense, enhance the romance, and ratchet up the thrills: the music. From the earliest days of cinema, filmmakers have turned to composers to help bring their art to life. Now you can hear that music performed as part of the National Symphony Orchestra's festival Soundtracks: Music and Film. This exciting festival will be co-directed by Leonard Slatkin - who, as a child in Hollywood, was mentored by leading composers and performers from cinema's golden age - and preeminent film composer John Williams, whose music has graced such seminal hits as Star Wars, E.T., Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, and many more.In this unique live music and film screening event, TV/movie producer and historian John Goberman premieres his newly compiled score for director Fritz Lang's 1926 silent cinematic masterpiece Metropolis. Both a compelling commentary on the Industrial Revolution and an expressionistic vision of the not-so-distant future, "Metropolis" has continued to inspire and influence filmmakers everywhere. The National Symphony Orchestra will perform music by composers from the silent film period—including selections from Arnold Schoenberg, Edward Grieg and Bela Bartok.
Please note, there will be no late seating. No one will be allowed in the Concert Hall once the performance begins—please arrive early.
Program:
| SCHOENBERG - Transfigured Night, Opus 4 | |
| SCHOENBERG - Chamber Symphony No. 1 in E Major, Op. 9, arr. Anton Webern | |
| SCHOENBERG - Chamber Symphony No. 2, Opus 38 | |
| GRIEG - Holberg Suite, Opus 40 | |
| Prelude Sarabande Gavotte and Musette Air Rigaudon | |
| BARTÓK - String Quartet No. 1, Op. 7 | |
| BARTÓK - String Quartet No. 2, Op. 17 | |
All events and artists subject to change without prior notice.
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Reviews and Articles
The Washington Post "Now Slatkin and Williams have joined forces to present "Soundtracks: Music and Film," an ambitious festival that begins Thursday night [Jan. 23] at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall and continues through Feb. 1." Read More...
The Washington Post "Slatkin is brilliant not only as a conductor but as an educator as well. As narrator for the third "Soundtracks" program, he introduced a capacity audience to an absorbing evening devoted to the history of aligning music with film..." Read More...
The Baltimore Sun "With more than 80 film credits, including the recent Catch Me If You Can, Williams is widely recognized as the leading contemporary master of the genre." Read More...
The Washington Post "Over the course of five minutes, Williams manages to breeze through 22 film themes..." Read More...
The Washington Post "Williams made a charming, self-effacing host, and a capacity audience cheered him as if he were Luke Skywalker." Read More...
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