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Musical director Gábor Hollerung said the orchestra had played selections from film scores now and then, but five or six years earlier, it performed a concert of Williams? music, on request, in the Buda Castle. The concert was a fantastic success and the orchestra took to the composer?s other works too, he added.
The programme will feature music from Once Upon a Time in the West, The Lion King, 1492, The Titanic, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park.
Hollerung called Williams a ?master of orchestral instrumentation? who ?tested the boundaries of technical possibility?.
He counted the score for the Harry Potter films among the most difficult for the strings section to play.
Hollerung said the orchestra would not play the music exactly as it is heard in the films, adding that Wiliams had written several concert pieces based on his scores, presenting the heart of the music and its motifs.
The programme will also feature classical pieces by Wagner, Mozart and Tchaikovsky.
?I think it?s very important that audience members who would normally not go to a concert if it were just classical music now have the chance to experience it here,? Hollerung said.
He added that Williams? scores could never have been written without the work of such composers as Wagner.
The Dohnányi Orchestra of Budafok has long involved crossover in its performances, mixing jazz or popular music with classical. Last spring, the orchestra accompanied Sting in Budapest and Graz.
The more than 80 members of the orchestra will be joined on stage in the arena by a 180-strong chorus as well as the soloists Tibor Kocsis and Mariann Szabó.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
