\”The World Festival of Sacred Music–The Americas,\” a 9-day multicultural program initiated by his holiness the Dalai Lama, kicks off this weekend with a mind-boggling schedule of over eighty concerts and \”musical happenings\” that cover an eclectic range of styles and ethnicities of almost anything that can broadly be called \”sacred\” in places where you might not expect them.
In spite of thunder, lightning, pouring rain and occasional gusts of unchecked sentimentalism, the Viva Klezmer-L\’Khayim Mariachi concert at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre on Sunday, July 11, was a high-energy, crowd-pleaser that mostly delivered on its promise to explore the intersection of the two forms.
With the release of \”Star Trek: Insurrection,\” composer Jerry Goldsmith has completed his fourth orchestral score for a \”Star Trek\” feature film. During the past 35 years, the composer has written some of the most memorable film and television music ever. His 100-plus film scores are remarkably diverse, including \”Alien,\” \”Chinatown,\” \”Basic Instinct\” and last summer\’s \”Mulan.\”
The list of films for which Elmer Bernstein has written orchestral scores reads like a roll call of cinema\’s all-time classics: \”The Ten Commandments,\” \”The Age of Innocence,\” \”The Magnificent Seven,\” \”Ghostbusters,\” \”To Kill A Mockingbird,\” \”CapeFear,\” \”True Grit,\” \”Animal House,\” \”The Great Escape,\” \”My Left Foot\”…just to name a few.
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