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- Joby Talbot
Vampyr (2018)
- Chester Music Ltd (World)
A new soundtrack to Carl Dreyer's 1931 Horror Film.
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- C(Opt)
- 1 hr 5 min
Programme Note
Premiered on Halloween in 2018 at the iconic 1920’s Theatre at the ACE Hotel in Los Angeles, Talbot’s score to the 1931 film Vampyr by Danish director Carl Dreyer provided a suitably spooky experience for all.
Traveller Allan Gray arrives in the French village of Courtempierre and takes lodgings in a small inn. Gray has a great interest in the supernatural, particularly vampires. He has barely settled in before he feels a sinister force descending upon him. In the night an old man enters his room to tell him ‘She must not die’. One of the old man’s daughters, Leone, has been bitten by a vampire. To break the curse, Gray and Leone’s sister Gisele must find the original vampire and drive a stake through her heart….
Joby Talbot and Classical KUSC's Brian Lauritzen talk about the many different compositional hats Talbot wears, writing operas, ballets, concert music and film scores as well as a recent project commissioned by LA Opera for the Off-Grand series: a new score for the 1931 German film “Vampyr” performed at the Theatre at Ace Hotel.
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- New works for live ensemble to film
- Since the invention of machines that projected images onto screen in the early 1800’s, filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock, Dziga Vertov, Charles Chaplin and many others created silent moving pictures for presentation on theatre screens, in this golden era of cinema between 1894-1929. The genre has inspired composers from George Antheil to Joby Talbot to write new scores to accompany these silent masterpieces in the concert hall.