“I think the mood of Copland’s fanfare, when I hear it, I feel a sense of power and I feel the majesty of the musical phrase,” Willis says about the traditional, orchestral version. singles chart in 1977 with a version of it that Copland praised in an interview just before his death. It also has been used by the Chicago Blackhawks in its video introduction of the team, and John Williams based the main themes for 1978’s “Superman” on it.īut one of its most famous uses happened when the British progressive rock group Emerson, Lake & Palmer hit No. In May 2014, for example, the New York Philharmonic performed it at the dedication of the 9/11 Museum in Manhattan. “It’s an iconic American fanfare,” Willis says, “connected with patriotism.” The brass section takes center stage for Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man,” a piece Copland wrote at the request of Eugene Goossens, conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, as one of 18 fanfares he commissioned in 1942 to support the war effort, something he had done in Britain during World War I. It’s “fiendishly virtuosic, a chance for the orchestra to really shine,” Willis says.
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The “most virtuosic bumblebee in musical history,” as Willis calls it, follows with “Flight of the Bumblebee” from Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Tale of the Tsar Saltan” opera.Ĭharlie Chaplin’s “The Gold Rush,” Disney’s “Fantasia,” “The Green Hornet” radio and TV series, and “Kill Bill” have all made use of it.
The string section - particularly the violin - takes the spotlight next, with the first movement of the “Spring” concerto from Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons.” According to IMDb, the “Spring” movement has appeared in such films as “A View to a Kill,” “Pretty Woman,” “Up Close and Personal,” “Spy Game” and “Tropic Thunder.”
To see these 60 people make these incredible sounds is an educational moment and a fascinating moment.”įrench and Silk Road connections: South Bend Symphony focuses on climate change with 'Terra Nostra' “But to see the string players play it and to see the intensity of the trumpeters is different. “Perhaps it’s important to know the real source of a piece of art,” Willis says. The overture’s finale, which also figures prominently in the film adaptation of “A Clockwork Orange,” opens with a thrilling theme from the trumpets that heralds the action to come and then goes on to feature the entire orchestra. “Everyone will recognize it but hearing it and seeing it played by an orchestra as opposed to a masked man on a white horse is a completely different experience.” “I grew up hearing that and thinking it was the ‘Lone Ranger’ theme and had no idea it was by an Italian composer,” Willis says. The concert, however, opens with one of the most famous uses of classical music as a film or television theme: the finale of Gioachino Rossini’s “William Tell” Overture. The first five works on the program are short and popular pieces that have all been used in film and television productions, although Dmitri Kabalevsky’s aptly named “Galop” from “The Comedians” suite might not be as familiar as the other four: The percussion-centered work served as the theme song for the game show “Masquerade Party” in the 1950s and during its one-season revival in the 1970s. Visit him online at Bend Symphony Orchestra Music Director Alastair Willis calls the SBSO's Family Concerts "probably the most important" concerts the orchestra performs because they expose children to the orchestra and classical music. Payne lives with his wife and children in Cincinnati, Ohio. He teaches at the Columbus College of Art & Design, where he is the chair of the Illustration Department. Payne has illustrated more than a dozen picture books, including the New York Times bestselling Mousetronaut by astronaut Mark Kelly the Texas Bluebonnet winner Shoeless Joe & Black Betsy, written by Phil Bildner and the New York Times bestsellers The Remarkable Farkle McBride and Micawber, both by John Lithgow. He performs concerts across the country and has recorded the CDs Farkle and Friends, Singin’ in the Bathtub, and The Sunny Side of the Street. An award-winning actor, he has starred on stage, film, and television. John Lithgow is the New York Times bestselling author of I Got Two Dogs Mahalia Mouse Goes to College Marsupial Sue Presents: The Runaway Pancake I’m A Manatee Micawber Marsupial Sue The Remarkable Farkle McBride and Carnival of the Animals.
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