{"id":3988,"date":"2014-09-29T10:04:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T10:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=3988"},"modified":"2014-10-10T09:03:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T09:03:16","slug":"elliot-goldenthals-gothic-suite-rules-at-ascap-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=3988","title":{"rendered":"Elliot Goldenthal’s gothic suite rules at ASCAP gala"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Elliot<\/a>By Ray Bennett<\/p>\n

Robin Williams once told me that there are movie stars, \u201cand then there\u2019s Jack\u201d, as in Nicholson. The Krakow Film Music Festival Sunday night showed that there are film composers, and then there\u2019s Elliot, as in Goldenthal.<\/p>\n

The Oscar-winning composer created for the festival a stupendous 20-minute piece titled \u201cGrand Gothic Suite\u201d with cues from \u201cBatman Forever\u201d and \u201cBatman and Robin\u201d to be performed during the ASCAP 100th Anniversary closing gala.<\/p>\n

Played with evident joy by the Beethoven Academy Orchestra and Polish Radio Choir conducted by Diego Navarro, the suite soared and danced and rampaged and\u00a0almost blew the roof off the Tinning Plant venue not because it was loud but because it was so enthralling. It stopped the show. Audience and orchestra leapt to their feet and demanded that Goldenthal (in the centre of the photo above) go to the stage for a prolonged standing ovation.<\/p>\n

\"Elliot<\/a>As Goldenthal\u2019s life partner, director Julie Taymor, told me afterwards, the suite showed that dumb action movies can have scores that are created with classical orchestral foundations. The composer has an extraordinarily rich musical vocabulary and he employed it fully in the \u201cGrand Gothic Suite\u201d. It is so vividly descriptive and evocative that you don’t actually need to see the movies.<\/p>\n

The performance, which featured Goldenthal’s longtime music producer Teese Gohl on keyboard, was the highlight of an evening of great music that featured cues by Patrick Doyle from \u201cFrankenstein\u201d, \u201cThor\u201d and \u201cHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\u201d, Dario Marianelli’s gorgeous waltz from \u201cAnna Karenina\u201d with a sumptuous clip from that very good movie, Gustavo Santaolalla’s simple but lovely theme from “Brokeback Mountain \u00a0(he sent a video greeting as he could not attend),\u00a0Philip Glass’s “The Hours Suite, Movement III” with Leszek Mo\u017cd\u017cer at the piano, and Garry Schyman from the videogame \u201cBioShock\u201d,\u00a0 plus an \u201cInception\u201d suite by Hans Zimmer, who performed with the orchestra along with vocalist Czarina Russell, German cellist Tristan Schukze and Polish guitarist Aleksander Milwiw-Baron.<\/p>\n

Flautist Sara Andon also stole the show with colour-co-ordinated gowns and staggering musicianship as she performed arrangements of a romantic cue by Alex North from \u201cSpartacus\u201d, a theme by Elmer Bernstein from \u201cTo Kill a Mockingbird\u201d and \u201cMoon River\u201d by Henry Mancini (his own arrangement) from \u201cBreakfast at Tiffany\u2019s\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Ray Bennett Robin Williams once told me that there are movie stars, \u201cand then there\u2019s Jack\u201d, as in Nicholson. The Krakow Film Music Festival Sunday night showed that there are film composers, and then there\u2019s Elliot, as in Goldenthal. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1694,8,9],"tags":[2173,2172,484,1481,2145,1275,2174,4171,950,2175],"class_list":["post-3988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-krakow-film-music-festival","category-music","category-news","tag-grand-gotham-suite","tag-ascap-100th","tag-dario-marianelli","tag-elliot-goldenthal","tag-garry-schyman","tag-hans-zimmer","tag-julie-taymor","tag-krakow-film-music-festival","tag-patrick-doyle","tag-sara-andon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3988"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4035,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988\/revisions\/4035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}