JTI Friday Series

North Cleopatra Symphony*
Rota The Godfather – A symphonic portrait*
WaxmanThe Ride of the Cossacks
Herrmann Psycho – A narrative for string orchestra*
Kaper Mutiny on the Bounty*
Goldsmith Star Trek – The New Enterprise*

John Mauceri conductor

*Arranged by John Mauceri.

Welcome to Hollywood and the golden age of movie music, where the shift to ‘talkies’ and the arrival of hundreds of émigré musicians from the great orchestras of central Europe formed a perfect storm of creativity. As Alex Ross observed in The Rest Is Noise, an actress could hardly serve a cup of coffee in a mid-century movie ‘without having fifty strings swoop in to assist her.’ Waxman, Herrmann, North and Rota were no shrinking violets but as such they delivered some of the most emotional and involving orchestral music written for film.

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