{"id":8924,"date":"2017-05-19T15:34:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T15:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=8924"},"modified":"2017-06-20T13:24:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T13:24:01","slug":"kfmf-doldingers-neverending-story-score-charms-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=8924","title":{"rendered":"KFMF: Doldinger\u2019s \u2018Neverending Story\u2019 score charms festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Ray Bennett<\/p>\n

KRAKOW \u2013 The presence of German saxophonist and film composer Klaus Doldinger appeared to electrify conductor Christian Schumann and the Sinfonietta Cracovia as they performed the maestro\u2019s score for \u201cThe Neverending Story\u201d at the ICE Krakow on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Doldinger, 81, added a vital charge to the proceedings as a packed audience, many with children, responded warmly to the story-telling charms of Wolfgang Petersen\u2019s 1984 fantasy film.<\/p>\n

Schumann, the Sinfonietta and Cracow Singers performed the composer\u2019s adventuresome operatic score with great verve.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The film tells of a young lad named Bastian (Barret Oliver) who is given a book that transports him to a phantasmagorical world filled with strange creatures where the land of Fantasia is under threat.<\/p>\n

Only another boy, Atreyu (Noel Hathaway) can save the place through a series of Herculean-like hurdles and in the end only with the aid of Bastian\u2019s imagination.<\/p>\n

The film did not do so well in North America but it was a hit everywhere else and here at the Krakow Film Music Festival, it was easy to see why. A\u00a0digitally enhanced German version in English with Polish subtitles was screened without the Giorgio Moroder tracks that were added for the U.S. release.<\/p>\n

Doldinger\u2019s score moved as swiftly as the adventure with sweeping strings flying as high as the film\u2019s delightful Luck Dragon.<\/p>\n

Pan pipes came in for the occasional quiet moments of sadness but the pace resumed as the challenges came thick and fast for Atreyu. The score\u2019s wit and agility matched the action and helped make the sometimes clunky special effects become charming.<\/p>\n

As the Cracow Singers joined for Bastian\u2019s joyous flight of fancy at the end of the picture, the audience was all smiles and offered a standing ovation to conductor and orchestra and chorus. That was repeated when Doldinger climbed onto the stage with his saxophone and reprised the engaging main theme melody.<\/p>\n

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Photos:\u00a0Wojciech Wandze<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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