The Ontario Pops Orchestra will add a finale to their 2024/25 season with a live performance that features film music and two of the giants of the classical canon. The Music of Hans Zimmer & Blockbuster Classics on Could 31 combines a few of Zimmer’s finest identified scores with Schubert and Beethoven.
Soprano Leslie Higgins joins OPO for the live performance. Higgins earned a Bachelor’s diploma from Western College, and a Grasp’s of Music from the College of Toronto. Right this moment, she is a school member of the Royal Conservatory of Music.
On this system:
- The Gladiator by Hans Zimmer
- Ave Maria by Franz Schubert.
- On the Films with Hans Zimmer (Picks from: Man of Metal, Inception, and The Darkish Knight Rises)
- Over the Rainbow by Harold Arlen with lyrics by Yip Harburg
- Hans Zimmer: Film Milestones (Picks from: Driving Miss Daisy, Gladiator, Madagascar, Crimson Tide and The Lion King)
- Pirates of the Caribbean by Hans Zimmer
- Symphony No. 8 by Ludwig van Beethoven
Hans Zimmer & The Films
Zimmer grew up in a music-loving household, however rejected formal classes. He grew to become a fan of movie composer Ennio Morricone, and he’s typically mentioned in interview that’s what spurred him to develop into a film music composer himself. Nonetheless, his musical profession started with keyboards, synthesizers, and bands like The Buggles, and Krisma, an Italian new wave band.
However, at the same time as he was performing and at occasions producing rock and pop singles by means of the Eighties, he started writing music for promoting jingles by the mid Eighties, and partnered with Stanley Myers, a prolific composer, to discovered the Lillie Yard recording studio. The 2 composers shared a imaginative and prescient of music that blended orchestral sounds with digital devices. It’s nonetheless his carrying card at present.
His music is usually touted because the quintessential fashionable soundtrack for fantasy, motion, and thriller films, however his catalogue consists of a variety of films from Driving Miss Daisy to Kung Fu Panda.
Zimmer’s musical type is characterised by a type of late Romantic Austro-German type at its coronary heart, typically utilizing darkish minor keys, dramatic ostinatos and dynamic ranges. The Pirates of the Caribbean rating is amongst his finest identified, together with a fugue-like therapy of the principle theme, and stellar string writing.
He virtually didn’t tackle The Lion King challenge when it was provided to him.
“At first, I didn’t wish to do Lion King, as a result of I don’t actually like Broadway musicals,” he says in an interview. “I assumed that’s what Disney needed from me, however they saved saying, ‘No, no, no, we actually like that you simply don’t like Broadway musicals. We would like this to be completely different.’”
He modified his thoughts, based on interviews, as a result of his daughter was six years previous on the time, and because of the nature of the flicks he’d written for beforehand, she’d by no means been in a position to attend any of the premieres.
And, after all, a number of years later, The Lion King grew to become one in every of Broadway’s largest hits.
Zimmer is accountable for the music for greater than 200 initiatives, which to date, have received two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, 5 GRAMMY Awards, together with three Emmy and one Tony Award nominations.
Considerably satirically, he’s develop into so well-known as a movie composer that he now typically takes to the stage as a performer once more.
A Crowd Pleasing Program
With its mixture of classical luminaries, traditional songs and film music, it’s a program with dramatic aptitude.
- Discover tickets and extra particulars in regards to the Could 31 efficiency [HERE].
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Anya Wassenberg is the Toronto Metropolis Editor at Ludwig Van. Beforehand, she was a contract author with a specialty in tradition and journey for 3 many years, and a artistic writing teacher for Ontariolearn.