Hollywood In Vienna 2017 A Tribute To Danny Elfman

Hollywood in Vienna is an annual film music gala hosted in the Vienna Concert Hall where the Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award is presented.

Not every fairytale starts with the usual formula of “Once upon a time…”. However, all fairytales touch us with the power of their inherent fantasy. They blend the beautiful and the eerie into a magical world between dreams and reality. Hollywood and fairytales have developed a very special friendship that - this year - presents us with a fantastic concert experience in the land of mythical creatures.

Zimmer entered the world of film music in London during a long collaboration with famed composer and mentor Stanley Myers. He soon began to work on several successful solo projects‚ including the critically acclaimed A WORLD APART‚ and during these years Zimmer pioneered the use of combining old and new musical technologies. Today‚ this work has earned him the reputation of being the father of integrating the electronic musical world with traditional orchestral arrangements.

There were many reasons to be in a good mood in 2014! David Newman and the multiple Oscar and Grammy winning Film-Song specialist Randy Newman presented thecolorful world of film comedy! This year the »MAX STEINER FILM MUSIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD« was awarded to RANDY NEWMAN. The famous nephew of the ninefold Oscar-winner Alfred Newman is one of the most successful film scorers of our time. He is especially renowned and well beloved for his numerous film songs that brought him two OSCARS, 20 nominations for the Academy Award and eight nominations for the GOLDEN GLOBES. He is also winner of six GRAMMYS and three EMMYS as well as honorary member of the »Rock and Roll Hall of Fame« (since 2013).

At the very beginning of our journey we visit the gloomy estate Manderley from the well known Hitchcock classic REBECCA, before meeting the eccentric ADDAMS FAMILY in their dilapidated Viktorian Mansion. Subsequently, we get to know Ernest Menville, an undertaker, who shall help to renew the battered bodies of his immortal ex-wifes in DEATH BECOMES HER. Our eerie tour then leads us to Disney's PHANTOM MANOR, the settlement of Cuesta Verde, in which a POLTERGEIST walks abroad, and the fabulous world of ALICE IN WONDERLAND. In the film set of PERFUME - THE STORY OF A MURDERER we will be bewitched by a perfect perfume and later on we find ourself in Paris, to reveal the enigmatic DA VINCI CODE. We then witness the curious transformation of BENJAMIN BUTTON, finally ending in the midst of THE OMEN, where the fallen angel casts a spell over us. In the second part of our concert we honor our these year’s laureate for the MAX STEINER FILM MUSIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 2015, James Newton Howard.

Hollywood in Vienna« invited to an unforgettable musical journey to the fantastic vastness of space and time and honored the versatile Hollywood composer Alexandre Desplat. The music of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY lead us to outer space and made us experience its infinite dimension. INTERSTELLAR, between the stars, we entered the infamous, global STAR WARS and were rescued by STAR TREK's spaceship »Enterprise«, leading us to faraway musical galaxies, where no man has gone, before. We got in CONTACT with extraterrestrials, GRAVITY pulled us back to earth and, finally, we fulfilled E.T.'s wish, to phone home. Within the second part of the concert, we honored the Oscar-, Golden Globe and Grammy winner Alexandre Desplat. His atmospheric melodies for HARRY POTTER, TWILIGHT, THE KING’S SPEECH, THE IMITATION GAME And THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL amongst others let us virtually float through the universe.

On the first anniversary of James Horner's tragic death, we celebrate the legendary composer's greatest film scores with this Deluxe Blu-ray concert. James called this 2013 concert the 'most special moment' of his life. David Newman conducts an orchestra and choir in performances of suites from Titanic, Avatar, A Beautiful Mind, Braveheart and more! The Blu-ray also features a 75-minute symposium with James Horner discussing his creative process and some of his most loved scores.

»And the Oscar goes to…« This year »Hollywood in Vienna« will be setting out on a glamorous journey through eight decades of film music; the red carpet will be rolled out for some of the great Oscar-winning films & compositions, performed by the ORF RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA VIENNA and conducted by Boston Pops music director KEITH LOCKHART in one of the most beautiful concert halls in the world. Following a sparkling opening with HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD, our program includes legendary songs from THE WIZARD OF OZ, alongside orchestral music from cult films such as CASABLANCA, JAWS, OUT OF AFRICA, SCHINDLER’S LIST, as well as recent Oscar-winners, such as SHAPE OF WATER and BLACK PANTHER, adding up to an unforgettable concert experience in a festive setting reflecting the magic of Hollywood.

A CELEBRATION OF DISNEY CLASSICS - FEATURING ALAN MENKEN In 1989, THE LITTLE MERMAID marked Disney’s glorious return to the genre of the grand fairy tale musical. Music was more important than ever for these big screen masterpieces, breathing life into the skillfully animated fairy tale worlds. One name shaped the films of the so-called "Golden 90s" and beyond like no other: Alan Menken. Besides THE LITTLE MERMAID, the composer wrote scores and songs for the modern Disney classics BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, ALADDIN, POCAHONTAS, THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME and many more and lend the Disney's dream worlds their unmistakable sound.