KVUE News anchor Quita Culpepper emcees a night of imaginative movie music.
Austin, TX (October 30, 2009) – With an incredible lineup of popular music from motion pictures, the Fantasy Film Scores concert is a great way to kick off the holiday season at the Mexican American Cultural Center, 600 River St, in Austin on Friday, November 13th at 8:00pm.
The fall 2009 lineup is fresh, fun, and has something for everyone! Fans of “Twilight” will be delighted, as the Austin Wind Symphony has teamed up with Summit Entertainment so that with every general admission ticket purchase, audience members will receive a theatrical one-sheet “Twilight” movie poster and will be treated to haunting music from the film! Fish and fins more your thing? No Problem! Go “Under the Sea” with a symphonic suite from “The Little Mermaid”. Adventure fans will delight to hear exciting music from “Back to the Future”, “The Witches of Eastwick”, “The Goonies” and 1989’s “Batman”, all performed live! Each member of the audience will also be handed a winning ‘Golden Ticket’ to take a musical journey into the magical world of Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory.
KVUE news anchor Quita Culpepper joins the Austin Wind Symphony and Conductor Patrick Phillips for the rousing symphonic performance on Friday, November 13 at 8pm.
The one-time performance is $10 per person (Tickets available online www.austinwindsymphony.org and at the door the night of the performance)
The Mexican American Cultural Center is located at 600 River St Austin, TX 78701
If you love the music of film and television, the Austin Wind Symphony has got you covered! Founded in June of 2005, the fifty piece 501(c) 3 volunteer organization believes that today’s classical music is usually only a movie ticket away!
“This is music that is so often underappreciated. The composer’s role is to bring the elements of the project together, only to have it buried in sound effects, and dialogue; We exist to prove just how powerful it can be when heard live.” said Patrick Phillips, founder and conductor of the ensemble.
Austin Wind Symphony – Prelude to a Concert – Season 1: Episode 3: Winds of Change
When the ensemble learns that their friend, and vice president, Shelly Eager has come down with a bad case of the Swine Flu, Conductor Patrick Phillips asks each of the band’s members to sign a card wishing her well. Meanwhile a massive change in venue is decided upon, in order to save money, and expand into the Austin Community. The symphony rehearses music from “The Little Mermaid”, where the conductor reminds them that performing film music requires research, and should not be like performing the part of “Oliver Twist” with the voice of comedian Jeff Foxworthy.
The Austin Wind Symphony (Austin’s VERY OWN Cinematic Symphony) is gearing up for its fall season 2009 and currently has openings in the following sections:
Violin/Viola
Trumpets
Clarinets
Flutes
Percussion
Please call 512-532-7944 and leave your name, instrument, and phone number to schedule an audition for Tuesday, September 1st from 6pm – 8pm at Fulmore Middle School (201 E Mary St, Austin TX). You will be asked to sightread a short passage given at the time of the audition, and are required to have 2 selections (1 fast, 1 slow) prepared to perform. If selected you will join the full ensemble on September 8 and begin rehearsing for the “Fantasy Film Scores” concert.
Rehearsals are each and every Tuesday evening from 7:30pm – 9:30pm at Fulmore Middle School. The Concert will be held on October 9th, at 8pm at Bethany Lutheran Church in South Austin.
Music for “Fantasy Film Scores” includes:
• Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
• Twilight: Bella’s Lullaby
• The Little Mermaid: Symphonic Suite
• Batman (1989)
• The Twilight Zone
• Harry Potter: Chamber of Secrets
• The Goonies
THE AUSTIN PLANETARIUM PARTNERS WITH BOB BULLOCK IMAX THEATRE
FOR UNIQUE STAR TREK OPENING NIGHT EVENT
TICKETS WILL ALSO INCLUDE AUSTIN WIND SYMPHONY PERFORMANCE OF STAR TREK MUSIC, A COSTUME CONTEST WITH CELEBRITY JUDGES, AND STAR TREKKIN’ COMEDY GROUP PERFORMANCE
WHAT:
The Austin Planetarium in partnership with the Bob Bullock Texas History Museum IMAX Theatre is
offering stargazers and Star Trek fans a special opening night event for the new film on May
8th at the IMAX theatre in Austin Texas. The Planetarium has rented out the entire IMAX Theatre to
bring this stellar event to Austinites. The event will begin with the Austin Wind Symphony
performing music from Star Trek. The Star Trekkin’ comedy group will be there, and the event will also
feature a Star Trek costume contest. Star Trek style food and drinks will also be provided. The
winner of the raffle for a Zero-G flight with Richard Garriott will be announced before the film begins.
WHEN:
Tuesday, May 8th
The event begins at 6pm / The show starts at 9:30pm
Raffle winner for Zero-G flight with Richard Garriott will be announced just before the movie starts.
WHERE:
Bob Bullock IMAX Theatre
1800 N. Congress Ave., Austin, TX 78701
Tickets for the event are $10 without the movie, and $35 for a full ticket with a movie ticket included. Tickets will be sold only on the Austin Planetarium website http://www.austinplanetarium.org/ prior to the performance. Proceeds will go to the Austin Planetarium.
About Austin Planetarium
The Austin Planetarium is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose goal is furthering science education by building a state-of-the-art Planetarium and Science & Technology Center in Austin, TX. Austin is presently the largest city in the United States without a planetarium or science museum, but through fundraising and building awareness we plan to change that. For more information and updates on the planetarium, visit http://www.austinplanetarium.org/.
On May 8th, 2009 @ 8pm The Austin Wind Symphony will fill the air with the triumphant sounds of the Final Frontier. The “Star Trek” event, scheduled that evening on the plaza of the Bob Bullock History Museum/IMAX Theater will feature the 40 piece volunteer ensemble performing music from the iconic series, and films.
“I am excited to be conducting the music once again, this time for an audience of trekkers/trekkies who will hang on our every note!” said Patrick Phillips, the symphony’s conductor. “It gives me a sense of pride knowing that this music continues to live on in the hearts and souls of fans all around the world.” Phillips, a well known composer of Trek Fan-films (Star Trek: New Voyages, Starship Farragut) founded the Austin Wind Symphony in June 2005, which is now known as “Austin’s VERY OWN Cinematic Symphony” as the ensemble is dedicated to the sole performance of the music from film and television in each of it’s concerts.
This will be the groups second “Trek” into space, as they successfully performed a themed “Star Trek” concert last October with a special video intro from George Takei, a fully costumed symphony, and a flurry of “Websclusive” audio interviews with Star Trek composers Gerald Fried (Amok Time), and Ron Jones (STTNG Seasons 1-3).
This event is a fundraiser for the construction of the Austin Planetarium.
WHEN: May 8th, 8pm
WHERE: BOB BULLOCK: Texas State History Museum / IMAX Theater *On the Plaza*
I would like to start out by thanking everyone for a fabulous rehearsal. I think we are all ready to keep it up and put on a great concert on Friday.
I always love watching the video clips with the music in rehearsal because it adds so much to the experience and it’s a good sign that at the end of Amok Time during the trombone solo and the clip with Kirk and Spock, I felt the sadness in the music and the video. Our fans and Star Trek fans alike will hopefully feel the same way.
And even if you can’t make it to our concert, we’ve set up a way for anyone to watch live broadcasts of our rehearsals online. We’re now on Ustream.tv, a site that provides an experience like Twitter and You Tube (except it’s live!) combined.
The Twitter style aspect of this is that you can make a username to leave comments or “follow” us. The video shows when we’re on and off air and we will definitely be on air for our dress rehearsal on Thursday night, 7:30. So sit back and relax, you can watch us in your pajamas at home now.
As conductor, I often have a bad habit of asking bizzare things of the orchestra, but this concert definately takes the cake… Because we are celebrating the music of “Star Trek” I found it nessesary to ask the entire ensemble to dress as though they served on board a starship, or a strange race of alien beings for concert night… While some have went out and actually purchased their costumes… Some made their own from scratch. One thing would be missing I knew, and I couldn’t have that, now could I?
So I asked Arvis Green, secretary of the ensemble to mold 50 Communicators from Star Trek: The Next Generation, and promised I would help her paint each one by hand… A week later she had not only molded them, but completely painted them as well!
Molded Combadge Props
They LOOK fantastic, and now the ensemble can be in touch with their fancy new communicator badges and the audience can rest assured knowing that the uniforms look and feel authentic.
On March 25th, 2008 The Austin Wind Symphony recorded the score for Director Lucas Martell’s animated film “Pigeon Impossible”. It was a blast, and I came across his posting of the event on his blog complete with photo’s and a sound clip of the AWS performing the title logo… CHECK IT OUT!
For those who don’t know, Lucas Martell is also a very talented Sax player who has been with the AWS since the very beginning… THANKS LUCAS! Congratulations!
We played an arrangement this week from Star Trek: First Contact, the 1996 movie and one of the few I’ve actually seen, in which Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and crew must thwart the Borgs yet another time in order to save the human race and even the crew from Borg assimilation. This movie is unique in its abundance of human interaction, and the piece we’re playing has the most emotion and “human” element of our songs.
Something Patrick said this week stood out in my mind. He said that it was amazing how many variations on the same theme we play and how different each of them are. Despite my parents’ addiction to sci-fi, I could really never get into the episodes or movies more than occasionally, but now I hum the theme waiting for my bus and I actually want to watch some of the famous episodes to know what everyone else is talking around nachos at Applebee’s. Just more proof that music makes the movies.
THE AUSTIN PLANETARIUM PARTNERS WITH BOB BULLOCK IMAX THEATRE
On March 25th, 2008 The Austin Wind Symphony recorded the score for Director Lucas Martell’s animated film “Pigeon Impossible”. It was a blast, and I came across his posting of the event on his blog complete with photo’s and a sound clip of the AWS performing the title logo… CHECK IT OUT!
