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Maurice Jarre - A Passage To India

Maurice Jarre conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on "A Passage To India" - A musical tribute to Sir David Lean, 1992  
 
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TheChopinesque (1 week ago) Show Hide
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Did Maurice Jarre ever compose a score beforehand for the would-be David Lean film Nostromo?
RaphaellHappy88 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Maravilhosa!
Queria vê-la ao vivo aqui no Rio de Janeiro.

Bravo! :))
fcmilsweeper9 (5 months ago) Show Hide
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If you look around the minute mark where hes conducting...is that a big clock next to his stand?
dseanmat (5 months ago) Show Hide
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It is, yes! He was timing the performance of the music to the images that were playing on the screen. Very tricky business, that. Conducting a film score is an entirely different set of challenges from a straight symphonic score.
fcmilsweeper9 (5 months ago) Show Hide
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Oh my god wow! Not to mention playing with a constantly unpredictably changing tempo.
dseanmat (5 months ago) Show Hide
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A couple of years back I had the privilege of attending a screening of Charlie Chaplin's City Lights, with the Hartford Symphony in front of the screen, playing the entire score live. The conductor had a clock on his podium as well, because the musical timing had to have split-second precision (bearing in mind that even the sound effects were purely musical, and thus had to be timed exactly with what was happening on screen). The HSO did the same thing earlier with Alexander Nevsky.
thatgreat (7 months ago) Show Hide
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May he RIP....
UFOSPACE1999 (8 months ago) Show Hide
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....for only 20 minutes in a 2:30 plus film, HE, Maurice won his 3rd Oscar for it.
carmelagrune (8 months ago) Show Hide
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é maravilhosa
sealforvr (9 months ago) Show Hide
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Some of you don't get it. It's classic "Suite" music of the 1930's. You'd hear similar music from the house band of any first class hotel or liner. Think Ray Noble and "Cherokee" or "Red Sails" . More importantly, some of the big British dance bands of the 30's. Jarre in an interview on NPR this weekend said his intent was to convey the both the elegance and mystery of travel back then, just as Bennet's did for "Murder On the Orient Express". BTW, it's a foxtrot.

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