In a world where film and music are inseparably linked, Music@Menlo will focus its lens on the relationship between composers and “the seventh art.” Music has always played a paramount role in the movie theater, supporting the rich emotional connection between the audience and the silver screen, and many composers have been deeply influenced by cinema’s traditions, tropes, and heritage. This Focus Residency will explore the why and how behind several such composers’ works as our camera moves through all the angles: music written for cinema, because of it, mimicking it, and even establishing the cinematic sound. Join us for a fascinating look into the life and works of several composers, featuring Dmitry Shostakovich and his relationship to Soviet cinema; the chamber music of Nino Rota, the man behind The Godfather; Patrick Castillo, a name so dear to Music@Menlo, and his fascination with Ingmar Bergman; the vibrant world of Libby Larsen and her dive into the smoky atmosphere of film noir; and, of course, the “Father of Soundtrack,“ the “Haydn of Film Music“ himself: Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

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Concert Program

Menlo School Campus

From romantic, savage, and epic American dramas to Japanese anime fantasy, The Hollywood Sound explores film scores from the past 80 years. VSO Concertmaster, Katherine Winterstein, performs Korngold's 1945 film score-infused violin concerto to complete the concert.

Vso At the Flynn

The Flynn

CineConcerts invites you to relive this chilling portrait of the Sicilian clan’s rise and near fall from power as a live symphony orchestra performs Nino Rota’s Oscar®-nominated score live to picture: The Godfather Live in Concert. This three-time Academy Award® winning film features Marlon Brando as the Corleone family patriarch, accompanied by career-making performances from Al Pacino, James Caan, and Robert Duvall. A concert experience you can’t refuse!

The Godfather™ in Concert

DeVos Performance Hall

A lively, tuneful score by the celebrated film composer Nino Rota illuminates this delightful farce in which a straw hat eaten by a horse sets in motion a hilarious chain of events, further complicating tangled wedding day preparations. 

U of T presents Il cappello di paglia di Firenze (The Florentine Straw Hat)

University of Toronto Faculty of Music

A lively, tuneful score by the celebrated film composer Nino Rota illuminates this delightful farce in which a straw hat eaten by a horse sets in motion a hilarious chain of events, further complicating tangled wedding day preparations.

Il cappello di paglia di Firenze

With a nostalgic, golden-age voice that routinely inspires comparisons to “legendary singers from earlier eras” (Associated Press), Maltese-born Joseph Calleja has become one of the most acclaimed tenors today, and he will make his BroadStage return as part of the 2023/24 Celebrity Opera Recital Series. Calleja’s extensive discography and appearances on the world’s leading opera, concert, and television stages have marked him as one of the most sought-after tenors of today. Recent operatic seasons have included appearances at notable opera houses such as the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Paris Opera, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and the Royal Opera House in London. Calleja received a GRAMMY® nomination for his recording of La Traviata from the Royal Opera House, and in 2012, he was named Gramophone Magazine’s Artist of the Year. NPR describes Calleja as “arguably today’s finest lyric tenor” (NPR), and his warm and rich tone matched with his impeccable stage interpretations leave audiences enchanted.

Celebrity Opera

Veterans Memorial Auditorium (The VETS)

Joseph Calleja, tenor

Journey to the Golden Era of Hollywood with the Lima Symphony Orchestra and crossover superstar Grammy-winning violinist Charles Yang. Experience the sounds that made the classics: the lush romanticism of Casablanca, the spine-tingling strings of Psycho, the haunting nostalgia of The Godfather, and the lyrical virtuosity of Korngold’s Violin Concerto.

Korngold and the Hollywood Sound

Veterans Memorial Civic and Convention Center

Mainstage Chamber Concert 5

Southern Vermont Arts Center

Tonight, Carlos Kalmar and the Grant Park Orchestra offer up one of Johannes Brahms' favorite composers with the Fuchs Symphony No. 2 alongside Brahms' cheeky Academic Festival Overture. Also, the Orchestra welcomes one of the most exciting young musicians to come onto the music scene in recent years. Composer and bass-player extraordinaire Xavier Foley joins the Grant Park Orchestra to play the Divertimento Concertante by the legendary Italian film composer Nino Rota. 

Brahms Academic Festival Overture

Millennium Park

The Godfather Live in Concert brings Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece film to Davies Symphony Hall.

Relive the chilling portrait of the Sicilian clan’s rise to power as the SF Symphony performs Nino Rota’s unforgettable score live to picture. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola and featuring landmark performances from screen legends Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, this ten-time Academy Award-winning film is a concert experience “you can’t refuse!”

The Godfather Live

Davies Symphony Hall

Fanfares, marches, and jubilant melodies open our 30th anniversary season in the Festive Overture of iconic American composer William Grant Still. Nino Rota, composer of film music for The Godfather parts I and II, brings his dramatic gifts to the concert stage with the playful and lyrical Concerto for Bassoon, featuring MPO’s own Brian Hadley. And the pastoral open spaces of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 are host to dances, storms and songs of gratitude.

#133: Openings

St. Catherine University

Discovery Open Rehearsal  - Francesco pairs the Ballet Suite from La Strada (The Road), by influential black-and-white film score composer Nino Rota with Sergei Rachmaninoff's brilliant Symphony No. 1. Hildur Guŏnadóttir's experimental yet warm From the Other Place, played from a color map rather than a traditional score, provides room for the strings to organically make music together for a one-of-a-kind performance.  RACH & the Hollywood Sound is a four-year exploration in which Rachmaninoff's monumental orchestral works are brought together with works by influential Hollywood composers of the past and present, illustrating their shared lush, lyrical and highly praised Hollywood sound.  

RACH & THE HOLLYWOOD SOUND - MARCH 19, 20 & 21

Green Music Center

The Graber-Graham-Rose Trio or G-G-R Trio, was formed in 2013 and made its debut performance at Trinity Chamber Concerts in Berkeley. Since then, the group has performed at Old First Church and NoonTime Concert in San Francisco, Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley, Four Seasons Arts Cameo Concerts, and other venues. Because works of major composers for this instrumentation are limited, G-G-R Trio also explores arrangements and works by lesser known composers, including Mikhail Glinka, Marko Tajevi, Paul Juon and Gunter Raphael.

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Events

Mar 30, 2024

Concert Program · Music@Menlo

Mar 2, 2024

Vso At the Flynn · Vermont Symphony Orchestra

Jan 5, 2024

The Godfather™ in Concert · Grand Rapids Symphony

23 - 26 Nov, 2023

U of T presents Il cappello di paglia di Firenze (The Florentine Straw Hat) · Royal Conservatory

23 - 26 Nov, 2023

Il cappello di paglia di Firenze · UofT Opera

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