The best movie soundtracks return to Barcelona Auditorium

The Film Symphony Orchestra will offer a second concert Sunday after selling out last | It will include classical melodies and Oscar nominated films this year

Film-Symphony Orchestra Barcelona

Barcelona Auditorium Sunday refills of the best soundtracks of films, with the return to the Catalan capital of popular Film Symphony Orchestra (FSO). The success of his first visit in October, where they sold all the tickets on sale, has led to the formation to include in their 2015 tour a second stop in the Catalan capital. So far, only Valencia had taken over a concert tour of the state.

The founder of the Film Symphony Orchestra, Constantino Martinez-Orts, will run the show, with more than 80 musicians. Born in 2012, it is the only professional orchestra dedicated exclusively to play the best music of the big screen and now has more than 60,000 spectators. After celebrating the anniversary of Back to the Future with a projection-concert, they have returned to the road in a tour that offers some of the most popular titles in the history of cinema in traditional symphonic concert format.

The concert on Sunday, at 19:30, will combine melodies of iconic Hollywood with a special program dedicated to the Oscar awards this year, including the most prominent of the upcoming ceremony BSO, as Imitation Game (Alexander Desplat) and La Theory of Everything (Johann Johannsson), which will be performed live for the first time in Spain. Also sound scoop works composed for The Avengers Alan Silvestri; a spectacular suite of Independence Day by David Arnold; or futuristic music by Don Davis for Matrix, an absolute symphonic premiere in Spain.

Among the classics that will be enjoyed and recognized are also Doctor Zhivago (Maurice Jarre), Out of Africa (Jon Barry) and ET The Extraterrestrial (John Williams), all Oscar-winning. There will also be songs that did not receive statuette but yes were nominated and have stuck in the collective memory, as Star Trek (Jerry Goldsmith), Jurassic Park (John Williams), Citizen Kane (Bernard Herman) and The Big Country (Jerome Moross ).

A variety of genres will be represented in the program, for example recall the romantic Legends of the Fall, in tribute to the late James Horner, retrieve the legendary military parade of The Bridge on the River Kwai Malcolm Arnold and delight the fans Star Wars saga with his famous soundtrack.

Tickets, which can be purchased at the Auditorium or on the website of the orchestra, cost between 25 and 60 euros. The tour serves as an introduction and launch of the first album of training, the best film music Volume I, recorded live during the inaugural concert of the tour 2014 in Las Ventas in Madrid with hundreds of musicians.

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The Music Conservatory of Barcelona premiere spaces

The works have allowed the rehabilitation and improvement of Eduard Toldrà Auditorium and the central space, called Fishbowl

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The auditorium seats have been changed, which have gone from 324 to 315, wider and comfortable. Have also been improved and sound installations to adapt them to the current regulations, and has modernized the space, which has also been decorated with scores of the composer.

The other space is renovated courtyard, called Fishbowl. In this room, covered with a skylight and finished modernist interventions have helped eliminate those damp cracks and repair them. In addition, tambés’han restored stucco and paintings. The works will allow the building is part of the Route of Modernism in the city. “With these interventions open space in the city,” said David Martin, director of the Conservatory.

During the operation have also renovated the 80 doors of the building, incorporating windows that let in light and vision from the hallways. In total, the works have involved an investment of 794 450 euros. “With these works, the building has been adapted to the needs of students, but also to make a public use,” said Raimundo Viejo, Councillor for Education and Universities.

The building is the headquarters of the Conservatory since 1928, and during this year there will 1,000 students, who are undergraduate professional learning music and other unregulated open courses. The opening of these spaces coincides with the tenth anniversary of the “concert Thursday,” which offers free concerts open to the public.

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Diana Krall opens the Voll-Damm Festival in Barcelona

The singer will perform at the Auditorium of the Forum at the International Jazz cycle of Barcelona that gathers names like Chucho Valdes, Chick Corea or Noa

Diana-Krall

This weekend starts the 47th edition of the Voll-Damm International Jazz Festival of Barcelona, ​​dozens of concerts scheduled until next December. It will be on September 26 at the Auditorium of the Forum with Diana Krall and sensuality of a voice falling almost three decades leading the public and critics. Wallflower World Tour, the name given its upcoming world tour, will come loaded with pop classics like California Dreamin’ The Mamas and the Papas, Desperado Eagles or Bob Dylan Wallflower, among many others. His admiration for Elton John was also recorded in this new job and on tour, where not lack Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word, an issue that is part of Diana’s life since he was a teenager, heard first album Blue Moves.

Auditori gain weight

Barcelona Auditorium this year became one of the main venues of the festival. By Pau Casals room will big names such as Chick Corea (October 22), Maria Schneider Orchestra, which will present his latest album, The Thompson extraordinary Fields’s (November 12) and Gonzalo Rubalcaba Quartet Volcano (November 24 ). Camera rooms Auditori also receive Danish artists like Trio Italian pianist Stefano Bollani (November 2), the Quartet Mboko the very young Cuban pianist David Virelles (November 10) -a documented by ECM unusual meeting between Santeria and avant-garde jazz, the duo without borders formed by the artistic couple in real life and Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn (November 11), guitarist Marc Ribot and Young Philadelphians (November 17), a single one of the most influential musicians of contemporary jazz, also guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel (November 18), and saxophonist Mark Turner with the Matosinhos Jazz Orchestra (November 28), among others.

Also highlighted in the programming of this year’s concerts Tori Sparks (October 23), De la Purissima (October 24), Concha Buika (November 7), Txarango with Barcelona Big Latin Band and Chucho Valdes (November 21 ), Neneh Cherry (November 25), Josemi Carmona-Javier Colina (November 27), Stacey Kent (November 28) and Noa (December 9).

Discounts

Last year with great success presented two types of “abonos” (with out sales), which was allowed to go to a good number of concerts with localities notch and very competitive prices, often below 15 euros entry. In this edition will be presented five types: one for all the interesting programming Liceo Conservatory, “Recorregut” called Children Of The Light (8 concerts); and two tours under the name of Chick Corea (3 concerts) and Chucho Valdes (11 concerts); a free subscription, “Recorregut “called Free Jazz, in which everyone can choose five or more concerts they desire it, and a comprehensive “Abono Recorregut” All That Jazz, which is the full amount of the three paths artist (22 concerts) .

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