{"id":9429,"date":"2018-05-30T14:24:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T14:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=9429"},"modified":"2018-09-06T16:02:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T16:02:25","slug":"kfmf18-elliot-goldenthal-on-the-ability-to-inspire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=9429","title":{"rendered":"KFMF18: Elliot Goldenthal on the ability to inspire"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Ray Bennett<\/p>\n

KRAK\u00d3W \u2013 American composer Elliot Goldenthal paid tribute to two Polish heroes at a media conference to open the 11th annual Krakow Film Music Festival today. Oscar-winner for \u201cFrida\u201d and recipient of the festival\u2019s first Wojciech Kilar Award in 2015, he said that the first time he saw the sheet music for Krzysztof Penderecki\u2019s \u201cThrenody to the Victims of Hiroshima\u00a0for 52 Strings\u201d when he was 17, he turned pale and started to tremble.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a deep moment,\u201d he recalled. \u201cI realised that I had seen my first real film score.\u201d With the venerable polish composer sitting next to him on the speaker\u2019s panel, he described spending an afternoon at Penderecki\u2019s home with its bucolic surroundings. \u201cWe didn\u2019t exchange many words but the silences \u2013 in music we call them rests \u2013 the rests were more poignant: \u201cHe has the ability to inspire. His music goes out, he doesn\u2019t know where .. the wind will take it. For me, it took it to Brooklyn when I was growing up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Goldenthal also spoke of his admiration of Poland\u2019s great military hero Tadeusz Ko\u015bciuszko, a general and architect who played a significant role in Polish history and the American Revolution. Last night in NOSPR Concert Hall in Katowice saw the first ever presentation of the composer\u2019s \u201cConcerto for Trumpet and Strings\u201d, which he has dedicated to Ko\u015bciuszko. It will be performed again tonight in concert at the ICE Krak\u00f3w Congress Centre. He said, \u201cThe dedication is related to the first time I came to Krak\u00f3w and heard the trumpets.\u201d The hourly bugle call from the tower of St. Mary\u2019s Church in Krak\u00f3w\u2019s Grand Square has been heard for centuries. \u201cThey echo Ko\u015bciuszko\u2019s values. He was a great hero of the American Revolution and he instilled the values of social issues that are ever more important today. These issues come up every 20 years or so and it seems like we go down the same dark road but Ko\u015bciuszko still has the ability to inspire.\u201d<\/p>\n

Penderecki admitted that when he was a young member of the avant-garde, he believed he should follow a straight line as a composer and thought that when his music was used in films that it was simply good publicity. \u201cBut then director Wojciech Has invited me to watch him film \u2018R\u0119kopis znaleziony w Saragossie\u2019 [1965]. I saw several scenes being shot and I changed my mind.\u201d Renowned in the concert hall, he said he enjoys writing music for short films: \u201cAt the moment, I combine classical music with film music.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Polish director Agnieszka Holland said that she was ignorant about music and confessed, \u201cFilm directors are thieves. They see something glittering, like a trinket, and they steal it and transpose it to their own ends. For me, music in film is another figure, another character. Music is a particular piece of dialogue.\u201d FMF Artistic Director Robert Piaskowski described the festival as \u201ca great holiday of filmmaking\u201d and said it was respectful of tradition but understood the power of innovation. Conductor Eimear Noone, who will conduct a concert of videogame music on Sunday, said that video games offered another great opportunity for composers and she promised a night of magic. Oscar-winning Polish composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek added a cautionary note, observing that while concerts of film music had never been more popular, budgets for feature film scores were being cut. He said \u201cWelcome to reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

And then there was cake.<\/p>\n

In my photo:\u00a0Magda Mi\u015bka Jackowska (RMF Classic radio star and moderator), composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, composer\/conductor Eimear Noone, director Agnieszka Holland, composer Elliot Goldenthal, composer Krzysztof Penderecki, FMF Artistic Director Robert Piaskowski,\u00a0RMF Classic Deputy Program Director Pawel Pawlik.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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