Film Music Programmes

Hollywood Drama

An orchestral celebration of the brilliant film and TV scores that almost won the Oscar, almost got thrown off the project — a night of brilliant music that carry hilarious stories about its creation. Thomas Newman, Alex North, David Raksin, Danny Elfman, March Shairman, Lalo Schifrin, James Newton Howard, Randy Newman, Johann Johannsson, Quincy Jones, Philip Glass, Shirley Walker, Jerry Goldsmith, Igor Stravinsky, Arthur Hamilton – each and every one of these brilliant film composers has hilarious stories of how and why their music that, is now considered a true legacy, almost won an Oscar, or got cut off the movies they were written for.

The Raksin Legacy: From the Golden age of Hollywood to the Fantastical Landscapes of Video Games

David Raksin, dubbed the ​“Grandfather of Film Music” has written 100 film scores and 300 television scores, including The Bad and the Beautiful and Laura.

This evening of David Raksin’s legacy takes the audience from the Golden Age of Hollywood to the Fantastical Landscapes of Video Games through the music of David Raksin and his students.

Programme includes: David Raksin, Christopher Young (Spiderman III; The Shipping News; Hellraiser), Don Davis (The Matrix trilogy), Craig Stuart Garfinkle (Baldur’s Gate, World of Warcraft)

“Hey Willy Wonka, that​’s not Rachmaninoff!”

Movies owe so much to classical music, which forms the soundscape of many legendary films. Eimear Noone has curated this programme to feature the best supporting roles played by classical music on screen, as well as original scores by fantastic film composers.