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Marvel Studios Infinity Saga Concert Experience – Sydney!

It’s been less than two months since I was in Melbourne at the Marvel Studios Infinity Saga Concert Experience, so what is different this time?

Well, for a start, it’s at the Sydney Opera House and being performed by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under the baton of conductor Benjamin Northey. Also, I had my wife B along with me, Alex staying home to study for exams next week. Tragic, eh, the parents watching superheroes with the kid being all serious and working!

Please see my Melbourne review for the structure of the concert, as this one followed the same pattern, except that conductor Northey gave a longer introduction. I think knowing what to expect helped me enjoy this concert even more than the first outing and allowed me to focus more on the orchestra than the film clips on the big screen.

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra were in fine form, really bringing the scores from the variety of composers to life. We had a great view of the string sections, with the ostinato of variations on Silvestri’s Avengers Theme keeping them busy, while Ramin Djawardi and Christophe Beck’s themes for Iron Man and Ant Man respectively gave the percussionists a huge workout. I noticed that the rock music drummer was kept in a clear plastic enclosure, probably for the safety of the musicians and audience. Drummers have a very wild reputation.

Once again, I thoroughly enjoyed Benjamin Northey’s dramatic conducting as you get the sense he really is channeling the music. So was I. This time I took pleasure in the variation of Patrick Doyle’s Thor and Pinar Toprak’s Captain Marvel, freed from the expectation of what they should sound like based on the soundtrack.

It was also fun sharing the experience with B and with the rest of the vocal audience, some of whom rose to give the orchestra a deserving standing ovation.

I certainly had a marvellous time!

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The Pines of Rome: I. The Pine Trees of the Villa Borghese (Live) 🌲
#CharlesDutoit #SydneySymphonyOrchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4-V8Sj6QnE

How to Train Your Dragon composer John Powell on why his scores still resonate

John Powell wants to shout the entire Melbourne Symphony Orchestra a drink. In fact, the English-born film composer…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/au/115127/

The Pines of Rome: I. The Pine Trees of the Villa Borghese (Live) 🎍
#CharlesDutoit #SydneySymphonyOrchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4-V8Sj6QnE

Welcome to Berk.

No, not the small town in western New South Wales where the summer temperature always seems to be above 40.

That’s Bourke.

Berk is “12 days north of Hopeless and a few degrees short of freezing to death. Most places only have mice or mosquitoes. We have… Dragons!”

We certainly do! We also have the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under the baton of conductor, you guessed it, Maestro Nicholas Buc.

It’s How to Train Your Dragon and it’s in concert at the Sydney Opera House.

I have to admit that I’d never seen the movie before, despite it being in our movie library. But teenage Alex has. What’s more, he has songs from John Powell’s score in his mostly non-orchestral playlist, so How to Train Your Dragon in Concert is a great opportunity to bring the whole family along again.

English composer John Powell has written music for a number of other animated features, including Shrek, Kung Fu Panda and the Australian made Happy Feet series, along with the live action Jason Bourne movies and my favourite, Solo: A Star Wars Story.

The Opera House’s concert hall is absolutely packed for the sold out Saturday matinee performance. How to Train Your Dragon is a huge family favourite and there are many parents and children in the audience. We sit six rows back from the stage, dead centre, with excellent views of the conductor and strings (Hey Nick, look down, you might see a familiar face!). Behind the orchestra, larger than usual with a much expanded percussion section, is the big screen which will show the movie as the orchestra plays.

A roar goes up as the Universal logo and fanfare is played and we enter the animated world of vikings and dragons and an action packed overture introduces the leitmotifs for the main characters, including a love theme for Astrid, protagonist Hiccup’s love interest, and the dragons themselves.

The music is loud, it’s brash, full of string ostinatos, wood winds, synthesised choir and bagpipes played at a furious pace as the action unfolds on the screen. But there are tender moments too. Forbidden Friendship, where Hiccup befriends Toothless, the fearsome Night Fury dragon, is a gorgeous, playful piece with marimba, harp and percussion that brought a tear to my eye with its beauty.

Then we have the soaring Test Drive, the signature music for the movie, as Hiccup and Toothless take to the skies together.

The score also invokes some Celtic fiddle with the associate concertmaster, Harry Bennetts, providing the spirited solos, his delight obvious in the performance.

After a tough past few weeks at work and school, this is the perfect movie and the perfect score for weekend enjoyment. Easy to watch and listen to, but with enough depth to keep you interested and emotionally involved.

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra does stunning job of performing the score, the sound is rich and full, and Maestro Buc his usual sterling work keeping them to time and sharing the music with the audience. I don’t know that I’ve ever heard the Sydney audience applaud as loudly as they did today, but it was richly deserved.

The people of Berk may be tasteless, but the people of Sydney weren’t and today they too had dragons.

https://allrite.blog/2024/08/24/how-to-train-your-dragon-in-concert/

#FilmMusic #JohnPowell #Movies #SydneyOperaHouse #SydneySymphonyOrchestra

Welcome to Berk.

No, not the small town in western New South Wales where the summer temperature always seems to be above 40.

That’s Bourke.

Berk is “12 days north of Hopeless and a few degrees short of freezing to death. Most places only have mice or mosquitoes. We have… Dragons!”

We certainly do! We also have the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under the baton of conductor, you guessed it, Maestro Nicholas Buc.

It’s How to Train Your Dragon and it’s in concert at the Sydney Opera House.

I have to admit that I’d never seen the movie before, despite it being in our movie library. But teenage Alex has. What’s more, he has songs from John Powell’s score in his mostly non-orchestral playlist, so How to Train Your Dragon in Concert is a great opportunity to bring the whole family along again.

English composer John Powell has written music for a number of other animated features, including Shrek, Kung Fu Panda and the Australian made Happy Feet series, along with the live action Jason Bourne movies and my favourite, Solo: A Star Wars Story.

The Opera House’s concert hall is absolutely packed for the sold out Saturday matinee performance. How to Train Your Dragon is a huge family favourite and there are many parents and children in the audience. We sit six rows back from the stage, dead centre, with excellent views of the conductor and strings (Hey Nick, look down, you might see a familiar face!). Behind the orchestra, larger than usual with a much expanded percussion section, is the big screen which will show the movie as the orchestra plays.

A roar goes up as the Universal logo and fanfare is played and we enter the animated world of vikings and dragons and an action packed overture introduces the leitmotifs for the main characters, including a love theme for Astrid, protagonist Hiccup’s love interest, and the dragons themselves.

The music is loud, it’s brash, full of string ostinatos, wood winds, synthesised choir and bagpipes played at a furious pace as the action unfolds on the screen. But there are tender moments too. Forbidden Friendship, where Hiccup befriends Toothless, the fearsome Night Fury dragon, is a gorgeous, playful piece with marimba, harp and percussion that brought a tear to my eye with its beauty.

Then we have the soaring Test Drive, the signature music for the movie, as Hiccup and Toothless take to the skies together.

The score also invokes some Celtic fiddle with the associate concertmaster, Harry Bennetts, providing the spirited solos, his delight obvious in the performance.

After a tough past few weeks at work and school, this is the perfect movie and the perfect score for weekend enjoyment. Easy to watch and listen to, but with enough depth to keep you interested and emotionally involved.

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra does stunning job of performing the score, the sound is rich and full, and Maestro Buc his usual sterling work keeping them to time and sharing the music with the audience. I don’t know that I’ve ever heard the Sydney audience applaud as loudly as they did today, but it was richly deserved.

The people of Berk may be tasteless, but the people of Sydney weren’t and today they too had dragons.

https://allrite.blog/2024/08/24/how-to-train-your-dragon-in-concert/

#FilmMusic #JohnPowell #Movies #SydneyOperaHouse #SydneySymphonyOrchestra

Welcome to Berk.

No, not the small town in western New South Wales where the summer temperature always seems to be above 40.

That’s Bourke.

Berk is “12 days north of Hopeless and a few degrees short of freezing to death. Most places only have mice or mosquitoes. We have… Dragons!”

We certainly do! We also have the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under the baton of conductor, you guessed it, Maestro Nicholas Buc.

It’s How to Train Your Dragon and it’s in concert at the Sydney Opera House.

I have to admit that I’d never seen the movie before, despite it being in our movie library. But teenage Alex has. What’s more, he has songs from John Powell’s score in his mostly non-orchestral playlist, so How to Train Your Dragon in Concert is a great opportunity to bring the whole family along again.

English composer John Powell has written music for a number of other animated features, including Shrek, Kung Fu Panda and the Australian made Happy Feet series, along with the live action Jason Bourne movies and my favourite, Solo: A Star Wars Story.

The Opera House’s concert hall is absolutely packed for the sold out Saturday matinee performance. How to Train Your Dragon is a huge family favourite and there are many parents and children in the audience. We sit six rows back from the stage, dead centre, with excellent views of the conductor and strings (Hey Nick, look down, you might see a familiar face!). Behind the orchestra, larger than usual with a much expanded percussion section, is the big screen which will show the movie as the orchestra plays.

A roar goes up as the Universal logo and fanfare is played and we enter the animated world of vikings and dragons and an action packed overture introduces the leitmotifs for the main characters, including a love theme for Astrid, protagonist Hiccup’s love interest, and the dragons themselves.

The music is loud, it’s brash, full of string ostinatos, wood winds, synthesised choir and bagpipes played at a furious pace as the action unfolds on the screen. But there are tender moments too. Forbidden Friendship, where Hiccup befriends Toothless, the fearsome Night Fury dragon, is a gorgeous, playful piece with marimba, harp and percussion that brought a tear to my eye with its beauty.

Then we have the soaring Test Drive, the signature music for the movie, as Hiccup and Toothless take to the skies together.

The score also invokes some Celtic fiddle with the associate concertmaster, Harry Bennetts, providing the spirited solos, his delight obvious in the performance.

After a tough past few weeks at work and school, this is the perfect movie and the perfect score for weekend enjoyment. Easy to watch and listen to, but with enough depth to keep you interested and emotionally involved.

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra does stunning job of performing the score, the sound is rich and full, and Maestro Buc his usual sterling work keeping them to time and sharing the music with the audience. I don’t know that I’ve ever heard the Sydney audience applaud as loudly as they did today, but it was richly deserved.

The people of Berk may be tasteless, but the people of Sydney weren’t and today they too had dragons.

https://allrite.blog/2024/08/24/how-to-train-your-dragon-in-concert/

#FilmMusic #JohnPowell #Movies #SydneyOperaHouse #SydneySymphonyOrchestra

Welcome to Berk.

No, not the small town in western New South Wales where the summer temperature always seems to be above 40.

That’s Bourke.

Berk is “12 days north of Hopeless and a few degrees short of freezing to death. Most places only have mice or mosquitoes. We have… Dragons!”

We certainly do! We also have the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under the baton of conductor, you guessed it, Maestro Nicholas Buc.

It’s How to Train Your Dragon and it’s in concert at the Sydney Opera House.

I have to admit that I’d never seen the movie before, despite it being in our movie library. But teenage Alex has. What’s more, he has songs from John Powell’s score in his mostly non-orchestral playlist, so How to Train Your Dragon in Concert is a great opportunity to bring the whole family along again.

English composer John Powell has written music for a number of other animated features, including Shrek, Kung Fu Panda and the Australian made Happy Feet series, along with the live action Jason Bourne movies and my favourite, Solo: A Star Wars Story.

The Opera House’s concert hall is absolutely packed for the sold out Saturday matinee performance. How to Train Your Dragon is a huge family favourite and there are many parents and children in the audience. We sit six rows back from the stage, dead centre, with excellent views of the conductor and strings (Hey Nick, look down, you might see a familiar face!). Behind the orchestra, larger than usual with a much expanded percussion section, is the big screen which will show the movie as the orchestra plays.

A roar goes up as the Universal logo and fanfare is played and we enter the animated world of vikings and dragons and an action packed overture introduces the leitmotifs for the main characters, including a love theme for Astrid, protagonist Hiccup’s love interest, and the dragons themselves.

The music is loud, it’s brash, full of string ostinatos, wood winds, synthesised choir and bagpipes played at a furious pace as the action unfolds on the screen. But there are tender moments too. Forbidden Friendship, where Hiccup befriends Toothless, the fearsome Night Fury dragon, is a gorgeous, playful piece with marimba, harp and percussion that brought a tear to my eye with its beauty.

Then we have the soaring Test Drive, the signature music for the movie, as Hiccup and Toothless take to the skies together.

The score also invokes some Celtic fiddle with the associate concertmaster, Harry Bennetts, providing the spirited solos, his delight obvious in the performance.

After a tough past few weeks at work and school, this is the perfect movie and the perfect score for weekend enjoyment. Easy to watch and listen to, but with enough depth to keep you interested and emotionally involved.

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra does stunning job of performing the score, the sound is rich and full, and Maestro Buc his usual sterling work keeping them to time and sharing the music with the audience. I don’t know that I’ve ever heard the Sydney audience applaud as loudly as they did today, but it was richly deserved.

The people of Berk may be tasteless, but the people of Sydney weren’t and today they too had dragons.

https://allrite.blog/2024/08/24/how-to-train-your-dragon-in-concert/

#FilmMusic #JohnPowell #Movies #SydneyOperaHouse #SydneySymphonyOrchestra

Welcome to Berk.

No, not the small town in western New South Wales where the summer temperature always seems to be above 40.

That’s Bourke.

Berk is “12 days north of Hopeless and a few degrees short of freezing to death. Most places only have mice or mosquitoes. We have… Dragons!”

We certainly do! We also have the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under the baton of conductor, you guessed it, Maestro Nicholas Buc.

It’s How to Train Your Dragon and it’s in concert at the Sydney Opera House.

I have to admit that I’d never seen the movie before, despite it being in our movie library. But teenage Alex has. What’s more, he has songs from John Powell’s score in his mostly non-orchestral playlist, so How to Train Your Dragon in Concert is a great opportunity to bring the whole family along again.

English composer John Powell has written music for a number of other animated features, including Shrek, Kung Fu Panda and the Australian made Happy Feet series, along with the live action Jason Bourne movies and my favourite, Solo: A Star Wars Story.

The Opera House’s concert hall is absolutely packed for the sold out Saturday matinee performance. How to Train Your Dragon is a huge family favourite and there are many parents and children in the audience. We sit six rows back from the stage, dead centre, with excellent views of the conductor and strings (Hey Nick, look down, you might see a familiar face!). Behind the orchestra, larger than usual with a much expanded percussion section, is the big screen which will show the movie as the orchestra plays.

A roar goes up as the Universal logo and fanfare is played and we enter the animated world of vikings and dragons and an action packed overture introduces the leitmotifs for the main characters, including a love theme for Astrid, protagonist Hiccup’s love interest, and the dragons themselves.

The music is loud, it’s brash, full of string ostinatos, wood winds, synthesised choir and bagpipes played at a furious pace as the action unfolds on the screen. But there are tender moments too. Forbidden Friendship, where Hiccup befriends Toothless, the fearsome Night Fury dragon, is a gorgeous, playful piece with marimba, harp and percussion that brought a tear to my eye with its beauty.

Then we have the soaring Test Drive, the signature music for the movie, as Hiccup and Toothless take to the skies together.

The score also invokes some Celtic fiddle with the associate concertmaster, Harry Bennetts, providing the spirited solos, his delight obvious in the performance.

After a tough past few weeks at work and school, this is the perfect movie and the perfect score for weekend enjoyment. Easy to watch and listen to, but with enough depth to keep you interested and emotionally involved.

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra does stunning job of performing the score, the sound is rich and full, and Maestro Buc his usual sterling work keeping them to time and sharing the music with the audience. I don’t know that I’ve ever heard the Sydney audience applaud as loudly as they did today, but it was richly deserved.

The people of Berk may be tasteless, but the people of Sydney weren’t and today they too had dragons.

https://allrite.blog/2024/08/24/how-to-train-your-dragon-in-concert/

#FilmMusic #JohnPowell #Movies #SydneyOperaHouse #SydneySymphonyOrchestra

Dame Edna with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, 2013. PART 2.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=heU1Ih37OGU&feature=share
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#DameEdnaEverage
#BarryHumphries

Dame Edna with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, 2013. PART 1.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dWvSE9xazF8&feature=share
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