Minnesota Orchestra | Osmo Vänskä, Music Director

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Classical

Sounds of Cinema: A Night At The Oscars

  • Sat Jan 9, 2010  8PM
    Orchestra Hall | $28-$86
  • Sun Jan 17, 2010  2PM
    Orchestra Hall | $15-$50*; Youth (age 6-17) $12
    *Family pricing unavailable for Price 1 Seating.

Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
John Goberman, host

KORNGOLD Selections from The Adventures of Robin Hood:
The Ambush
The Archery Contest
Escape from the Gallows
STEINER Selections from Gone with the Wind:
The Burning of Atlanta
“I’ll never be hungry again!”
ROZSA Selections from Ben-Hur:
The Chariots
The Birth
Crossing the Desert
The Sea Battle
HERRMANN Selections from Citizen Kane:
Rosebud
The Furnace
GERSHWIN Selections from Concerto in F, from An American in Paris
STOTHART Selections from The Wizard of Oz:
The Cyclone
Scarecrow Dance
Toto’s Escape
Return to Kansas

We've got the popcorn ready and the silver screen all set up at Orchestra Hall, so come watch excerpts of Oscar-winning classics as the Orchestra plays the music that helped make these landmark films so famous! Selections include music from the gloriously romantic Robin Hood, the grand Civil War epic Gone with the Wind, a Gershwin-graced American in Paris and two of the most unforgettable films evermade—Ben-Hur and Citizen Kane.

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Sound of Cinema

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