{"id":8083,"date":"2015-05-27T14:10:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T14:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=8083"},"modified":"2015-07-09T12:56:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T12:56:11","slug":"kfmf-reflects-changing-artistic-landscape-artistic-director-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=8083","title":{"rendered":"KFMF reflects ‘changing artistic landscape’: artistic director"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Krakow<\/a><\/p>\n

By Ray Bennett<\/p>\n

KRAKOW \u2013 The 8th Krakow Film Music Festival kicked off today with morning masterclasses and a noon media conference in which artistic director Robert Piaskowski welcomed around 800 artists who will play at 10 concerts during the event.<\/p>\n

He thanked Krakow Festival Office Director Izabella Helbin and Krakow Mayor Jacek Majchrowski for their support and praised the composers and musicians who will, he said, \u201creflect the changing artistic landscape that surrounds us\u201d.<\/p>\n

Helbin said she was very happy that “the great stars of film music have accepted our\u00a0invitation” to attend the event: \u201cEvery year, it\u2019s a better festival. There is no main thread this year, it\u2019s a festival of diversity with music from videogames, television and film.\u201d<\/p>\n

Piaskowski said that tonight\u2019s videogame concert at Kijow Centrum in Krakow, featuring the U.S. orchestral rock band Critical Hit, had sold out in three hours: \u201cWe could put on three videogame concerts and they would be sold out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"fmf_main_en\"<\/a>Critical Hit co-founder Michael Gluck said the show will reflect the growth in videogame music from the earliest games to current productions and games not yet released with 20 pieces. The original games lacked the technology to have more than one melody, he noted, but then the technology became more accommodating to greater sophistication. Critical Hit, he said, is \u201cthe Trans-Siberian Orchestra of videogames\u201d.<\/p>\n

Cellist Tina Guo, who also plays electronic cello\u00a0and\u00a0has been with Critical Hit for three years,\u00a0said she was not a frequent gamer \u201cbut I did play ‘Super Mario’ and ‘Zelda’ when I was a little Chinese girl\u201d. Guo played on Hans Zimmer\u2019s scores for \u201cSherlock Holmes\u201d and \u201cGladiator\u201d and she has just released a video of her version of \u201cNow We Are Free (Gladiator Main Theme)\u201d.<\/p>\n

Piaskowski noted that for the Polish Music Gala: Scoring4Wajda on May 28 the festival had to recreate orchestral scores for classic Polish soundtracks \u201cto regain our cultural heritage\u201d. Andrzej Wajda and some other composers will be guests of honour at the show, which will feature cues by Wojciech Kilar, Zygmunt Konieczny, Krzysztof Komeda, Andrzej Markowski, Krzysztof Penderecki, Pawel Mykietyn, and Andrzej Korzi\u0144ski. The performance features the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice with the Choir of Karol Szymanowski Philharmonic in Krakow conducted by Alexander Leibriech.<\/p>\n

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The Shakespeare in Concert event on May 29, Piaskowski said, will be \u201cfor many of us a dream come true\u201d. It will feature music by Mikl\u00f3s R\u00f3zsa, Prokofiev, Ennio Morricone and Patrick Doyle plus Jocelyn Pook and Stephen Warbeck, who will both be there.<\/p>\n

Elliot Goldenthal, who will be the recipient of the first Kilar Award at this year\u2019s KFMF, has created for the concert a 40-minute suite that combines music from his ballet \u201cOthello\u201d with themes from the movies \u201cTitus\u201d, \u201cThe Tempest\u201d and \u201cA Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream\u201d directed by his partner Julie Taymor, who will be on hand with Goldenthal for the performance.<\/p>\n

Christian Schumann will conduct the Beethoven Academy Orchestra and the soloists will include Reeve Carney, who originated the role of Peter Parker in Taymor\u2019s Broadway show \u201cSpider-Man\u201d. Piaskowksi said Carney will sing \u201cFull Fathom Five\u201d, the song performed by Ben Whishaw in Taymor\u2019s \u201cThe Tempest\u201d.<\/p>\n

The artistic director noted the FMF4Kids concerts \u201cThe Gruffalo\u201d and FMF Youth Orchestra on May 30, and the “Star Trek” live orchestral concert on May 31, and said he was delighted that KFMF will present the world premieres of several television show themes in the International TV Series Gala, also on May 30.<\/p>\n

Canadian composer Trevor Morris said he was pleased to return to the festival after two years to introduce his music from \u201cThe Borgias\u201d, \u201cThe Tudors\u201d and \u201cVikings\u201d. American composer Daniel Licht said it would be the first time his music for (\u201cDexter\u201d) had been performed by an orchestra but he also has brought along the saws and knives and other found instruments that he uses for the score.<\/p>\n

Asked at the media conference if he had found a difference between his home nation of Iceland and America, Atli \u00d6rvarsson (\u201cChicago Fire\u201d) observed drily that he found the weather in Los Angeles to be different. He noted that Icelanders of his generation had been introduced to rock and roll through the U.S. Army base in Iceland but he said \u201cthe biggest influence is the landscape and energy of Iceland itself\u201d.<\/p>\n

Other TV composers who will be at the concert include Jeff Beal (\u201cHouse of Cards\u201d, \u201cThe Dovekeepers\u201d, HBO Overture\u201d), John Lunn (\u201cDownton Abbey\u201d), Lukasz Targosz (\u201cThe Pack\u201d), Cliff Martinez (\u201cThe Knick\u201d) and Ramin Djawadi (\u201cGame of Thrones\u201d).<\/p>\n

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