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Fanfares.
"Fan fare" is popcorn. Note the space.
You gotta have space for popcorn.
A fanfare (no space) is the multi-trumpet thing done to usher
in kings
and emperors and Oscar Award announcers and the
like.
It's rilly rilly serious, or off with your head.
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William
Tell Overture - Theme from The Lone Ranger.
The radio show first aired in 1933.
It is not polite to
shout "Hi Ho Silver" during a performance.
You can
ask "Who was that masked conductor" afterwards.
Rossini wrote the overture in 1829. It has four parts,
Dawn, Storm, Call to Cows and lastly the famous "March of the Swiss
Soldiers". The reason it sounds like a galloping horse is because that
rhythm symbolised urgency and rescue. So soldiers could march
to the beat and their officers could ride beside conveying the full
dit-dit-dah dit-dit-dah dit-dit dit dit dah. Yep, a
bit of hesitancy there. That is because the horse was worried. He knew
he was a big target and only being paid oats. All the grass he could
loot of course, but....
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Also Sprach Zarathustra
- theme from 2001, a Space Odyssey.
The movie dates from 1968, when 2001 was far far away,
but the moon was
nearly within reach and not long after that we'd surely be on Mars.
It's all about a computer that knows better. That sort of thing happens
when you let movie moguls decide their core operating systems. (OK,
that's a bit vague. "their" referred to computer operating
systems, but you can read it as how movie production works
if you like.
Not a lot of difference. We play
only the Intro, before the very reasonable computer starts to byte.)
For the nerds among you, the music is a tone poem by
Richard Strauss, written
in 1896. This is the theme-only short version.
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Schindler's
List
A movie celebrating a con man who genuinely deserves
to be honoured. Read the book.
Featuring violinist Blythe Press.
Blythe
Press grew up in the Wellington region, but has since spent quite a lot
of time in Europe before returning. You can find more details on
the Aroha
Quartet website
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Phantom of
the Opera - a Medley
The phantom of the opera was a book written in 1910. Didn't do very
well. However the storyline is a gift to movie makers and
this is the opera version. That is, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical
which was made into a movie and I'm sure there are books written about
it. Next you want a TV mini-series with a heroine and a vampire
rotating in and out of alternate realities and we'll be set for another
generation.
Incidentally - Not a medley of phantoms. There is no collective noun
for phantoms. But you can always email us
suggestions.
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Movie
Spectactular
In which Batman dances with wolves, Robin.
It combines...
- Batman
- Dances with Wolves
- Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves
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Interval
[ Set up to start showing movie clips. ] |
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Pirates of the Carribean
At
Worlds End, mixed with
Curse of the Black Pearl
For those who do not understand this (most of
humanity),
you start with the phrase "The world is your oyster",
add in a bit of "the end of the world"
(ambiguous... It used to be Invercargill,
but Tim Shadbolt fixed that)
throw in the usual villains and heroines...
and play it con braggidacio, streptioso,
scherzando et misterioso
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Themes from 007.
Themes from way back before computer graphics, when the need for oily
red explosions added seriously to California's carbon footprint.
(Whereas Aston Martins are so rare they don't count.)
You'll have to guess the various movies, but one theme tune was written
by Paul McCartney, and described by a musicology professor as
"symphonic rock at its best".
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Star Wars Suite 1, and The Imperial March.
Don't
wars become trivialised once they are long long ago in a galaxy far far
away. You wind up in a hotel on Hollywood
Boulevard being
offered a choice of Suites. "The Titanic Suite is grand, sir, but the
Star Wars Suite has a jacuzzi". That is what they mean by
suite, innit.
Luckily, the Imperial
March is as wonderful as ever. Restores ones belief in the ability
of composers and scriptwriters to mock the mighty by
stupendifying
them. (Makes one re-evaluate Pomp and Circumstance...)
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Harry Potter. Chamber
of Secrets
HP&tCoC is
the second novel in the series. Noted for an early sequence where Ron
Weasley flies a Ford Anglia without recourse to an autopilot
or
hostesses or ground control or... any control really.
Navigation wasn't a problem though. He was really chuffed with it.
Themes for
Fawkes the Phoenix and
Dobby the House Elf.
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Lord of the Rings. Fellowship of
the Ring
In which a trio of halflings set out to deliver a ring to Mount Doom.
One look at the address and boy, did they have serious doubts.
Lovely
music by Howard Shore
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Mission Impossible
Theme from Mission Impossible by Lalo Schiffrin.
The theme is written with a 5⁄4 time signature which Schifrin has
jokingly explained as being "for people who have five legs".
Squeezing 12 movies into one concert is also a difficult mission.
Not impossible though. Just trot out the well known themes and let
memories do the rest.
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Programme:
Final Concerts: (Nov 2013)
Supported
by the Hutt City Council
©2013
Anton Erasmuson.