Symphonic cinema
Symphonic cinema is a film genre that was introduced in 2010 by Dutch film director Lucas van Woerkum.[1] The stories told by classical music masterpieces are turned into film scenarios. The silent films are presented in concert halls with live orchestral performances.[2]
From within the symphony orchestra, Lucas van Woerkum controls the films from a touchscreen using specially developed software. In November 2010, commissioned by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, he created the film Scale based on the composition Scale, le Tombeau de Mahler by Willem Jeths. In the spring of 2011, The Isle of the Dead, based on Sergei Rachmaninoff's Die Toteninsel, premiered in a performance by the Residentie Orkest The Hague. The film was also screened at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
At the Dutch Film Festival in 2014, the film Firebird (Stravinsky) was performed by the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Mark Wigglesworth. The Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra performed five shows of Firebird at the Royal Concertgebouw in 2015. Scenes from the film were broadcast on the Dutch television program DWDD with live orchestra.[3]
In July 2016, symphonic cinema made its debut in Asia at the National Center for Performing Arts in Beijing. In April 2017, Firebird was performed at the Barbican Centre in London by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Since then, symphonic cinema has been performed worldwide. Recent productions in this genre include Daphnis & Chloé based on the ballet music of Maurice Ravel and The Echo of Being featuring excerpts from Gustav Mahler's symphonies No. 2, 4, and 9.[4]
References
- ↑ "Film als extra stem in het orkest". NRC (in Nederlands). 2015-01-26. Retrieved 2023-06-01.
- ↑ "Van Woerkum, BBCPO, Gernon, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review - a symphony of cinema". theartsdesk.com. 2019-01-21. Archived from the original on 2023-05-05. Retrieved 2023-06-01.
- ↑ "De Wereld Draait Door hele uitzending - 27-1-2015 - De Wereld Draait Door - BNNVARA". De Wereld Draait Door (in Nederlands). Retrieved 2023-06-01.
- ↑ "Symphonic Cinema – Classical Music Brought to Life" (in Nederlands). Retrieved 2023-06-01.
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