Tommy Pearson

Free event just announced! 🎶
Join us at the London Soundtrack Festival as
@jonburlingame.bsky.social the world’s leading writer on film & TV music, discusses his seminal book Music in Prime Time with me.
Don't miss it!

📅 Mon 24 Mar, 2:30 PM
📍 Barbican Centre
🎟️ bit.ly/3Q82Y4X

Just announced!

Cate Blanchett & composer Hildur Guðnadóttir will introduce a special screening of Tar on March 21st at Barbican Cinema as part of London Soundtrack Festival.

Tickets:
5 Feb, 10 AM – Barbican members & LSF subscribers
6 Feb, 10 AM – General public
Londonsountrackfestival.com

Silence of the Lambs with live score - London Soundtrack Festival

The Silence of the Lambs will be screened with the score by Howard Shore played live for the first time on March 24 @barbicancentre.bsky.social as part of London Soundtrack Festival. Don't miss this masterpiece film and score!
Tix available now! bit.ly/40UNdET

The inaugural London Soundtrack Festival is coming up fast!
It's going to be mega. Don't miss it!
londonsoundtrackfestival.com

BBC2 is currently showing Planet of the Apes (1968) and as usual it's at the wrong speed, meaning the score - one of the greatest of all time - is at the wrong pitch and rushed and the whole film runs 7 mins shorter than it should.
A horrible way to treat classic movies.

Yay happy anniversary you two! X

All four of us are ill at home with a nasty virus.
Happy Christmas! #kids

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But the playing of the LSO is just unmatched. It’s the class that the music deserved.
As you say, a masterpiece. And criminally under-performed.

Please seek out the Chandos recording with @londonsymphony.bsky.social and Richard Hickox. It’s superior to all others in every way. 😃

Blimey that promises to be a good night! 😂

Music by the brilliant Gordy Haab!

Key changes. Note changes even. Please, just try a bit harder in your film scores, will you?! Would it hurt to just move that left hand octave drone about a bit once in a while?!

An excellent list from @larkingrumple.bsky.social - totally agree that the extraordinary Violin Concerto should be better known (that ENDING!). But no Noye's Fludde?!! The single greatest work for children ever written. Let's replace The Bridge Variations with that. :-)

LSF Gala Concert - London Soundtrack Festival

Howard Shore has made a slight change to his music for
our London Soundtrack Festival Gala Concert with
@lporchestra.bsky.social @lpchoir.bsky.social in March
@southbankcentre.bsky.social : now includes The Noble Wood (I Roderyn) from The Hobbit.
Details/tix here: bit.ly/3OtZI35 #LSF25

When we played it @kensingtonso.bsky.social I was on timps and mis-counted a large number of bars rest (thanks to the UTTERLY confusing new published version by B&H) and missed the solo glissando. Disgusted with myself, I didn't play for a year afterwards.
#Isetmyselfhighstandards

Thank you! I wish we could do it again.

Star Wars films, ranked:

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars

I’m still deeply affected by Vera Drake and that astonishing performance by Imelda Staunton (and everyone else, actually!). And at last half term we popped by the real campsite that’s in Nuts in May, quoting that amazing film as we went. All hail Mike Leigh!

When Paul Patterson’s 40th was celebrated in a concert, I remember being OUTRAGED that he was described as a “young composer” (I was 17 at the time). Nowadays…I’m thinking it sounds terribly young… #Iamold

Working on it!

Pieces include The Fly, Mrs Doubtfire, M Butterfly and, of course, a substantial suite from Shore's Oscar-winning score for Lord of the Rings, which he recorded with the LPO. Howard Shore will be presented the inaugural LSF Award by his long-time collaborator, director David Cronenberg. (2/2)

LSF Gala Concert - London Soundtrack Festival

We've just revealed which pieces by our LSF Award Honoree Howard Shore will be played by @lporchestra.bsky.social @lpchoir.bsky.social at our Gala Concert @southbankcentre.bsky.social on March 22nd. It's going to be fantastic: londonsoundtrackfestival.com/event/lsf-ga... (1/2)

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Who are you again?

Interesting question. We should all get together for a brainstorm on this - in fact, some blue sky thinking.

It is indeed.

That was exactly my thinking!

Interesting how many people claim the credit for the BBC using Nessun Dorma. Des Lynam told me in an interview that Bernie thought something operatic would work but it was Des who thought of ND.