Bard Music Festival
Program Seven: Robin Hood and Beyond
August 16, 2019
Bard Music Festival
August 16, 2019
6:30 pm Pre-concert reception on the portico; open to all ticket holders.
7:30 pm Preconcert Talk: Daniel Goldmark
8 pm Performance: The Orchestra Now, conducted by James Bagwell
Selections from The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley
With Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, and others
Score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957)
Max Steiner (1888–1971)
Suite from Casablanca (1943)
Dimitri Tiomkin (1894–1979)
Suite from The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
Alfred Newman (1901–70)
Overture and Scherzo from The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Franz Waxman (1906–67)
Suite from Rebecca (1940)
Bernard Herrmann (1911–75)
Suite from Vertigo (1958)
It was through Max Reinhardt that Korngold first started writing for Hollywood, where he and his family joined the growing exodus of émigrés from Europe. Korngold believed that “music is music, whether it is for the stage, rostrum, or cinema,” and his background in concert music, opera, operetta, and musical comedy proved invaluable in writing for film. His Academy Award-winning score for The Adventures of Robin Hood – an epic Technicolor swashbuckler starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland – integrated music from both his Sursum Corda and his original material for Rosen aus Florida into a taut, genre-defining masterpiece. Performed with screened excerpts from the film, selections from this score will be heard alongside music by other leading lights of Hollywood’s Golden Age, including Korngold’s compatriot and colleague Max Steiner, whose extensive output includes such classics as King Kong, Casablanca, and Gone with the Wind; Bernard Herrmann, whose iconic scores include Citizen Kane, Psycho, Vertigo, and Taxi Driver; Franz Waxman, of Bride of Frankenstein, Rebecca, and Sunset Boulevard fame; the Russian-born Dimitri Tiomkin, best-known for archetypically American Westerns like Duel in the Sun, High Noon, and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral; and Alfred Newman, whose work includes Wuthering Heights, All About Eve, and the famous fanfare that accompanies the 20th Century Fox logo. To launch Weekend Two, TŌN performs excerpts from these composers’ seminal scores in Program Seven, “Robin Hood and Beyond.”