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Vertigo & Psycho Live orchestral
experience at the movies with Hitchcock & the
NZSO The New Zealand Symphony
Orchestra is teaming up with Alfred
Hitchcock to present a unique movie experience
featuring a live symphony orchestra. In A
Symphonic Night at the Movies (Michael Fowler
Centre, 26 November), the NZSO plays back-to-back
performances of Vertigo and
Psycho’s full orchestral
soundtracks while the films play on the big
screen. Talented composer Bernard Hermann
scored the music for many of Hitchcock’s greatest films,
working closely with the director to create some of the best
movie soundtracks ever composed. The shower scene from
Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) is one of the most
famous moments in film history. Intended to run without any
music at all, Hermann insisted on adding his iconic stabbing
chords creating a sequence of screeching violins, violas,
and cellos in an original all-strings piece titled ‘The
Murder’. Afterward, Hitchcock reportedly agreed that it
vastly intensified the scene, and nearly doubled Herrmann's
salary.Contrasted against searching, driving phrases
Hermann’s Psycho soundtrack unnerves and excites
even the staunchest listener. Earlier in the evening the
NZSO will also present a screening of another iconic
Hitchcock film, Vertigo (1958), voted the ‘greatest
film ever made’ in the influential international film
magazine Sight & Sound. Of the seven Alfred Hitchcock
films he scored, Hermann considered this to be his best.
With hints of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and
Die Walküre, the motifs of this score work hard to
create arguably one of Hitchcock’s most suspenseful works.
The obsessive themes of the film are expressed in stalking,
circling music that builds an incredible sense of tension
accentuated by this live orchestral experience featuring 83
NZSO musicians. New Zealand conductor Hamish
McKeich, just named the NZSO’s Associate
Conductor for 2017, will be carefully synchronising the
music. “I’ll have to get that shower scene just
right!” Feel your heart pound in time with
staccato strings and let your senses be overwhelmed in this
impressive convergence of sound and screen with your
national orchestra, the NZSO. Please note that the
Vertigo screening will be at 6pm and the
Psycho screening will be at 10pm. ENDS HAMISH
MCKEICH Conductor HITCHCOCK Vertigo HITCHCOCK Psycho
Soundtracks composed by Bernard Hermann WELLINGTON |
Michael Fowler Centre | Saturday 26 November Ticketek | 0800 842 538 | ticketek.co.nz
Vertigo,
6pm | Psycho, 10pm
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