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 Manga turns to the universe of ‘Star Wars’ (Barcelona)

Manga Festival Barcelona-2015

Japanese illustrator of Star Wars, Tsueno Sanda, will be in the XXI edition of the Manga Fair of Barcelona to be held from  29th to November 1st in Fira Barcelona Montjuïc and this year will pay special attention at the saga created by George Lucas.

Tsueno made dozens of posters, posters and illustrations, as well as several covers of the sleeves of the saga of “Star Wars” both official adaptations of the films as the “expanded universe”.

Japanese illustrator sleeve give a workshop, and will meet with fans, while it will have its own stand.

The force that binds the universe Japan with “Star Wars” is “strong”, explained those responsible for the event, recalling that the relationship between the universe of the series of Lucas and China comes from afar, from the conception the history of the Jedi and the Sith.

Lucas was a big fan of Akira Kurosawa film, and “A New Hope” (the first title in the series) gave a small tribute to the movie “The Hidden Fortress”, the Japanese manager.

The American director adopted an aesthetic that referred to the Japanese clothing, while the Jedi philosophy has much to do with the code “bushido” samurai.

Hall produced the exhibition Star Wars Japan, where you can see illustrations and graphic creations Tsuneo Sanda and manga adaptations of the galactic saga.

The exhibition will also feature a section dedicated to merchandising franchise.

Japan has always wanted to differentiate some of the other countries in this collecting so many fans and there are some exclusive pieces were launched, said the same sources.

The exhibition will show pieces that were launched exclusively for the Japanese market, as well as the latest creation of Bandai, a number of figures of Darth Vader, “stormtroopers” (stormtroopers) and other characters redesigned in true samurai style, a combination that reflects the close relationship between both worlds.

In the twenty Manga of Barcelona will also feature the presence of different associations of fans Star Wars (Star Wars Catalunya, Rebel Legion, Props Star Events), which enliven the days of Hall with its photocalls and parades.

In addition, this year, two “stormtroopers” samurai style Star Wars Catalunya association wander through the Manga.
Sanda began to make his first original artwork in his spare time while working in an advertising agency.

After winning the International Illustration Competition for Science Fiction attracts interest OMNI editors in New York.

His career focuses on the production of illustrations of science fiction and fantasy, especially around the Star Trek and Star Wars.

Since 1996, at the request of Lucasfilm, he starts working on posters and back covers of Star Wars and after twenty years working for the series, has developed a unique style with many fans and good reviews.

Since 2008, Sanda devoted exclusively to his artistic work, and since 2010 also working as official illustrator for Disney Studio.

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