Composer Time
October 8, 2008
by: Jenny Baxter- AWS percussionist
If you haven’t listened to Patrick’s interview with Gerald Fried or other Behind the Score interviews, it’s well worth listening to, both for entertainment and to understand the ideas behind the creation of movie scores. Gerald Fried composed Amok Time, one of the pieces we’ll be playing in the upcoming concert.
The great thing about playing movie and television music is that most of the composers are still alive and we can learn the stories and the concepts behind the pieces. We may never know what the classical composers such as Tchaikovsky and Beethoven were thinking, but with music such as Amok Time, our conductor can actually talk to and connect with the person who created the music, and that’s pretty amazing to me.
And if you’ve never seen the iconic scene Gerald Fried wrote the piece for, you can get some context here.
