PINOCCHIO Father, please! Don't let them do this! Help me! Gipetto takes the money and walks off. (his nose grows) HEAD GUARD Five shillings for the possessed toy. (jerks his rope) DONKEY Oh! HEAD GUARD Next! What have you got? GIPETTO This little wooden puppet. Please! Give me another chance! OLD WOMAN Oh, shut up. LITTLE BEAR (crying) This cage is too small. Next! GUARD Get up! Come on! HEAD GUARD Twenty pieces. (breaks the broom in half) HEAD GUARD That's 20 pieces of silver for the witch. Come on! Get up! HEAD GUARD Next! GUARD (taking the witch's broom) Give me that! Your flying days are over. “Everything has to be really perfect for them, so when it comes to the music, you have to be willing to join them in that madness,” Powell told The Wrap.
It’s also an especially challenging project for a composer because animation is precise process of deciding the tiniest gesture.
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“It's grand and stirring and jaunty and fun and bombastic and gleeful – music that draws from a broad range of influences to create the kind of epic soundscape you need when you've got a film full of dragons and Vikings.Īn Oscar nomination is an uncommon honor for a musical score for an animated film. Powell was nominated for the 2011 Academy Award for his music for “How to Train Your Dragon,” a musical score praised as “unabashedly sweeping, dramatic and varied,” according to The Wrap in Hollywood.
Peabody and Sherman by composers including Alexandre Desplat, Hans Zimmer and John Powell will be performed for one-night only by the Grand Rapids Pops, conducted by Freer. Scenes from DreamWorks Animation films including Puss in Boots, Monsters vs. “From a musical side of things, (it is) the opportunity to truly feel - in a very physical way - feel, see and experience the power of live music and what it does for film.” “It’s a really, really fun, exciting event that you really have to see to believe,” said Freer, who is producer of CineConcerts, which created the show. “It’s something that you really have to see to believe,” conductor Justin Freer told the Deseret News prior to a show in Utah in July. The brand-new show, which premiered in June by the National Symphony Orchestra at Wolf Trap, also has been seen in major cities of Houston and San Diego. However, the trend of taking beloved geeky films and having full orchestras play the music live? I think we can all agree that’s pretty awesome.” “The intersection of geek culture and “high culture” has had some mixed results. The combination has been called an “intersection of geek culture and high culture,” according to The one-night only performance is at 8 p.m.
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“At the heart of DreamWorks Animation is the desire to tell great stories and inspire audiences,” according to the company mantra.īut the drama of the Bridge scene in Kung Fu Panda or the intensity of the Calling the Guardians in Rise of the Guardians wouldn’t be as dramatic or intense without the music illuminating the action.Īs good as it is to see in the theater, it’s even better when the music is LIVE.ĭreamWorks Animation in Concert comes to Grand Rapids this week with highlights from a dozen movies plus live music by your Grand Rapids Pops.
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The tales told in films from DreamWorks Animation are some of the best in contemporary cinema.Īn unexpected friendship between a hapless, young Viking and a dragon a surprising romance between an ogre and a princess and the unexpected adventures of animals who have spent their entire life in New York’s Central Park Zoo, suddenly thrust back into their native habitat, all are told in How to Train Your Dragon, Shrek and Madagascar.