Program to include music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Bernard Herrmann, Alex North, Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams. .
The Day the Earth Stood Still King of the Khyber Rifles A Portrait of Hitch (from The Trouble With Harry) The Naked and The Dead North By Northwest Scherzo Macabre (from Jason and the Argonauts) It's Alive! and world premiere of William Malpede's "Eye of the Storm: A Portrait of Benny".
Organist Stephan Tharp opens the program with adaptations of "The Man Who Knew Too Much", "Vertigo" and "Psycho". Then organist Christoph Bull provides a live improvised score to the early Hitchcock silent film "The Lodger".
KORNGOLD Suite from The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex NORTH "Forest Meeting" and March from Spartacus HERRMANN "Scene d'Amour" from Vertigo WAXMAN Excerpts from Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, October 1996
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic
The Los Angeles Philharmonic recently performed excerpts from four Herrmann scores, at a Tribute to the Movies concert fundraiser.
