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Showing posts with label San Francisco Symphony. Show all posts
Showing posts with label San Francisco Symphony. Show all posts
Friday, February 15, 2019

Movie Music, the Communicating Link

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Bernard Herrmann , likely the most celebrated of classic era film composers today, who wrote the scores   for Citizen Kane, Vertigo, N...
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Tuesday, April 3, 2018

A remembrance of things past: "MY AMADEUS STORY"

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As the San Francisco Symphony prepares to screen the Oscar-winning film, I reminisce...    Amadeus first entered my consciousnes...
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Friday, November 24, 2017

HITCHCOCK & HERRMANN: "NORTH BY NORTHWEST" COMES TO THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY

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On Friday, December 1 and Saturday, December 2, The San Francisco Symphony will present the Alfred Hitchcock blockbuster, North by Northw...
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Wednesday, May 24, 2017

CASABLANCA at 75, Let the Celebrations Continue

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Casablanca - winner of Best Picture, Best Director (Michael Curtiz) and Best Screenplay (Julius and Philip Epstein and Howard Koch...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Holiday Classic "The Snowman" (1982) Comes to Town

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T he Snowman , the captivating tale of a young boy who wakes one snowy Christmas Eve, goes outside and discovers that a snowman he bu...
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Monday, October 24, 2016

Stanley Kubrick's "2001" - A Musical Odyssey, Pt. 2

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The skies opened up over San Francisco on Saturday evening, October 15, and the rains poured down. Though this deluge complicated our tr...
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Monday, October 10, 2016

STANLEY KUBRICK'S "2001" - A MUSICAL ODYSSEY, Pt. 1

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  In 1964 Stanley Kubrick, who had by this time directed several notable and some Oscar -nominated films ( Killer's Kiss, The Ki...
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Saturday, March 12, 2016

SF Symphony 2015 -2016 Film Series Nears End; 2016 - 2017 Series Announced

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  The San Francisco Symphony's third annual Film Series will come to an end later this month with screenings of Steven Spielberg'...
Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Local Night Life: Noir City at the Castro and the San Francisco Symphony's Film Series

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The 2016 film noir season was officially launched with San Francisco's Noir City XIV, January 22 - 31, at the city's Castro Theat...
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Monday, July 6, 2015

Celebrating One of Hollywood's Legendary Talents

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Let's ponder for a moment what Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958) and Welles’s Citizen Kane (1941) might have in common beyond having been ...
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Sunday, January 25, 2015

Film with Live Orchestra: The Godfather (1972)

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The night sky was clear and the air a bit chilly on Friday, January 9, typical early winter weather in San Francisco. But the evening wou...
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Sunday, December 28, 2014

The Shape of Things to Come...in 2015

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2014, a busy year in my world, seems to have passed in a about a half-hour or less, and now 2015 is at the door. Here's what my crys...
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Monday, June 30, 2014

LIGHTS, CAMERA, MUSIC!

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 SF SYMPHONY ANNOUNCES 2014/2015 FILM SERIES Last year the San Francisco Symphony launched its first film series, film nights at...
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Saturday, November 23, 2013

Sight & Sound...Classic Cinema with Live Music

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Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo at Davies Hall, San Francisco, November 1, 2013 A few months ago the San Francisco Symphony announce...
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Saturday, October 19, 2013

Hitchcock Week...and more...at the San Francisco Symphony

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Just over two years ago I attended – and was astounded by - “ Casablanca with the San Francisco Symphony” at Davies Hall. Conducto...
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Monday, July 25, 2011

Casablanca with the San Francisco Symphony

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Last Friday night I attended a very special screening of " Casablanca with the San Francisco Symphony" at Davies Hall. Conducto...
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