Star Wars: The Last Jedi
with the Minnesota OrchestraThu May 16 — Sat May 18, 2024
Orchestra Hall
The Resistance is in desperate need of help when they find themselves impossibly pursued by the First Order. While Rey travels to a remote planet called Ahch-To to recruit Luke Skywalker to the Resistance, Finn and Rose, a mechanic, go on their own mission in the hopes of helping the Resistance finally escape the First Order. But everyone finds themselves on the salt-planet of Crait for a last stand. Don’t miss this big-screen battle with score performed live by the Minnesota Orchestra.
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Please note: This film is rated PG-13. Parents strongly cautioned as some material may be inappropriate for children under the age of 13.
Things to know
- Composer John Williams holds the record for most Oscar nominations (53) of any living person, including one for The Last Jedi's score.
- The Last Jedi features a posthumous performance by the late Carrie Fischer, who passed away a year before its release.
- CGI just won't cut it: Amid a sea of impressive CGI effects, Yoda returned to the film as an actual puppet. The puppeteer controlling and voicing Yoda in The Last Jedi is none other than Frank Oz, who presented Yoda in his original appearance in 1980's The Empire Strikes Back.
The Grammy Award-winning Minnesota Orchestra, led by Danish conductor Thomas Søndergård—who is serving as music director designate during the 2022-23 season—is recognized for distinguished performances around the world, award-winning recordings and broadcasts, educational engagement programs, and commitment to building the orchestral repertoire of the future. Founded in 1903, the Orchestra has an extensive history of touring throughout Minnesota, nationally and abroad, including high-profile visits in recent years to Cuba, Europe and South Africa. Recording projects undertaken in the past two decades include complete cycles of symphonies by Beethoven, Sibelius and Mahler, all recorded under Osmo Vänskä, who is now the Orchestra’s conductor laureate.
Sarah Hicks is the Minnesota Orchestra’s principal conductor of Live at Orchestra Hall, a role in which she oversees planning for and conducts many concerts in the broad-spectrum series of popular music, jazz, Broadway classics, movie scores and other genres. She also conducted the Inside the Classics and Sam & Sarah series for ten seasons.
Hicks’ career has seen collaborations with a diverse range of artists, from Hilary Hahn and Dmitri Hvorostovsky to Rufus Wainwright, Jennifer Hudson and Smokey Robinson. She has been an artistic leader in concerts featuring artists from Minnesota’s internationally-renowned popular music scene—including shows with The New Standards, multiple sold-out performances with Dessa and a live-in-concert recording released on Doomtree Records, and collaborations with indie band Cloud Cult. A specialist in film music and the film in concert genre, she is passionate about creating concert experiences which combine sight and sound, and that welcome new audiences to the orchestral genre.
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