Radiohead and Hans Zimmer announced earlier this month their debut collaboration would be a song off the soundtrack for BBC’s “Blue Planet II,” and now the track has finally debuted. The song, titled “ocean (bloom),” is a reimagining of the Radiohead track “Bloom” off their eighth album “King of Limbs.” Thom Yorke provided new vocals for the song and teamed up with the BBC Concert Orchestra for the recording.
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“‘Bloom’ was inspired by the original ‘Blue Planet’ series so it’s great to be able to come full circle with the song and reimagine it for this incredible landmark sequel,” Yorke said in an official statement. “Hans is a prodigious composer who effortlessly straddles several musical genres so it was liberating for us all to work with such a talent and see how he wove the...
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“‘Bloom’ was inspired by the original ‘Blue Planet’ series so it’s great to be able to come full circle with the song and reimagine it for this incredible landmark sequel,” Yorke said in an official statement. “Hans is a prodigious composer who effortlessly straddles several musical genres so it was liberating for us all to work with such a talent and see how he wove the...
- 9/27/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Radiohead and Hans Zimmer will team up on a track for “Planet Earth: Blue Planet II,” the BBC announced on Thursday. The acclaimed rock band and composer will team up to record a reimagined version of the 2011 Radiohead song “(ocean) bloom” with the BBC Concert Orchestra. The track is a fitting choice, given that the song was inspired by the original 2001 “Blue Planet” series. The collaboration, produced by Russell Emanuel of Bleeding Fingers Music, will premiere in a prequel to the nature documentary series set to be released on Sept. 27. Also Read: How BBC America's Nature Series 'Planet Earth II'.
- 9/15/2017
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Louisa Mellor Dec 12, 2016
We’ve taken a pen to the UK Christmas TV and radio schedules and circled the shows we’re looking forward to. Add yours below!
Amid the cosy repeats, big movies and inescapable cranberry-stuffed cookery shows on TV this month are a few original gems. Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton’s Inside No. 9 festive special The Devil Of Christmas (Tuesday the 27th of December, 10pm, BBC Two) is top of our must-watch list. Hot on its heels is Yonderland’s family friendly Yonder Yuletide (Saturday the 24th of December, 6.30pm, Sky One). Another for families on Sky is the Christmas Day Jasper Fforde adaptation The Last Dragonslayer, while Channel 4 has the non-festive-but-essential-for-fans-of smart-sci-fi Humans series two finale (Sunday the 18th of December, 9pm).
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Not to forget, of course, the Doctor Who Christmas Special, a brand-new series of Sherlock,...
We’ve taken a pen to the UK Christmas TV and radio schedules and circled the shows we’re looking forward to. Add yours below!
Amid the cosy repeats, big movies and inescapable cranberry-stuffed cookery shows on TV this month are a few original gems. Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton’s Inside No. 9 festive special The Devil Of Christmas (Tuesday the 27th of December, 10pm, BBC Two) is top of our must-watch list. Hot on its heels is Yonderland’s family friendly Yonder Yuletide (Saturday the 24th of December, 6.30pm, Sky One). Another for families on Sky is the Christmas Day Jasper Fforde adaptation The Last Dragonslayer, while Channel 4 has the non-festive-but-essential-for-fans-of smart-sci-fi Humans series two finale (Sunday the 18th of December, 9pm).
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Not to forget, of course, the Doctor Who Christmas Special, a brand-new series of Sherlock,...
- 12/9/2016
- Den of Geek
Talk about a killer kickoff! To celebrate the launch of BBC Music (and to raise money for charity), many musicians from around the globe banded together to cover The Beach Boys' 1966 hit "God Only Knows." Backed by the BBC Concert Orchestra, performers included Alison Balsom, Martin James Bartlett, Nicola Benedetti, Jake Bugg, Eliza Carthy, Coldplay, Jamie Cullum, Danielle de Niese, Jaz Dhami, Paloma Faith, Florence + the Machine, Dave Grohl, Jools Holland, Chrissie Hynde, Elton John, Lauren Laverne, Lorde, Zane Lowe, Baaba Maal, Gareth Malone, Brian May, Kylie Minogue, One Direction, Emeli Sandé, Sam Smith, Tees Valley Youth Choir, Pharrell Williams, Brian Wilson and Stevie Wonder. "All of the...
- 10/8/2014
- E! Online
"God Only Knows" is a perfect song. That's just science, people. The BBC commissioned a star-studded version of the Beach Boys/Brian Wilson classic. Watch the video, we'll talk about it after. Here are all the music superstars that appeared in this clip: Wilson, Elton John, One Direction, Stevie Wonder, Pharrell Williams, Jake Bugg, Lorde, Emeli Sandé, Chris Martin, Kylie Minogue, Paloma Faith, Sam Smith, Florence Welch, Chrissie Hynde, Brian May, Dave Grohl, Alison Balsom, Martin James Bartlett, Danielle de Niese, Nicola Benedetti, Eliza Carthy, Baaba Maal, Jamie Cullum, Jaz Dhami, plus BBC's Zane Lowe, Lauren Laverne, Katie Derham, Gareth Malone and Jools Holland, joined by the Tees Valley Youth Choir and the BBC Concert Orchestra. Here's what Wilson said about its creation: "All of the artists did such a beautiful job I can’t thank them enough,” he said. “I’m just honoured that God Only Knows was chosen.
- 10/8/2014
- by Katie Hasty
- Hitfix
Sir Elton John, One Direction and Pharrell Williams are among the 27 artists who have united to perform a reworking of the Beach Boys' 1966 classic 'God Only Knows'.
Launching BBC Music, the ensemble - dubbed The Impossible Orchestra - were revealed in a unique broadcasting moment at 8pm when all of the BBC's television, radio and online networks premiered the track.
BBC Music: 6 things we learned about the Beeb's new strategy
Beach Boys star Brian Wilson, who composed and produced the track, heads the group, and is joined by: popular music stars Sir Elton John, One Direction, Pharrell Williams, Stevie Wonder, Jake Bugg, Lorde, Emeli Sandé, Chris Martin, Kylie Minogue, Paloma Faith, Sam Smith and Florence Welch; rock musicians Chrissie Hynde, Brian May and Dave Grohl; classical musicians Alison Balsom, Martin James Bartlett, Danielle de Niese and Nicola Benedetti; folk performer Eliza Carthy; Senegalese singer Baaba Maal; jazz...
Launching BBC Music, the ensemble - dubbed The Impossible Orchestra - were revealed in a unique broadcasting moment at 8pm when all of the BBC's television, radio and online networks premiered the track.
BBC Music: 6 things we learned about the Beeb's new strategy
Beach Boys star Brian Wilson, who composed and produced the track, heads the group, and is joined by: popular music stars Sir Elton John, One Direction, Pharrell Williams, Stevie Wonder, Jake Bugg, Lorde, Emeli Sandé, Chris Martin, Kylie Minogue, Paloma Faith, Sam Smith and Florence Welch; rock musicians Chrissie Hynde, Brian May and Dave Grohl; classical musicians Alison Balsom, Martin James Bartlett, Danielle de Niese and Nicola Benedetti; folk performer Eliza Carthy; Senegalese singer Baaba Maal; jazz...
- 10/7/2014
- Digital Spy
UK cinemas to broadcast live BBC Radio 2 event for the first time to commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day, during which Patrick Stewart will play Sir Winston Churchill.
The BBC is to stream a live D-Day concert from the Royal Albert Hall to cinemas across the UK on June 6.
Picturehouse Entertainment co-ordinated the deal, which will see equal mapping of cinemas through Cineworld, Picturehouse Cinemas, Vue and independent cinemas across the UK.
Mindful of the fact that many veterans are in their late 80s and 90s, the live cinema broadcast has been organised to allow them and others who are unable to travel to London or France to take part in the event and mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day.
The concert will be part of BBC Radio 2’s D-Day activity which culminates in a special Friday Night Is Music Night, ‘D-Day 70 Years On’ at the Royal Albert Hall on June 6.
Hosts Jeremy Vine, Dermot O’Leary...
The BBC is to stream a live D-Day concert from the Royal Albert Hall to cinemas across the UK on June 6.
Picturehouse Entertainment co-ordinated the deal, which will see equal mapping of cinemas through Cineworld, Picturehouse Cinemas, Vue and independent cinemas across the UK.
Mindful of the fact that many veterans are in their late 80s and 90s, the live cinema broadcast has been organised to allow them and others who are unable to travel to London or France to take part in the event and mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day.
The concert will be part of BBC Radio 2’s D-Day activity which culminates in a special Friday Night Is Music Night, ‘D-Day 70 Years On’ at the Royal Albert Hall on June 6.
Hosts Jeremy Vine, Dermot O’Leary...
- 5/6/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
From the Nutcracker to American Psycho, from Mary Poppins to Kurt Vile, our critics pick their must-sees of the festive season
If you wish it could be Christmas every day
Nutcrackers, various
You know it's Christmas in the ballet world by the number of Nutcrackers touring the world's stages. In the UK alone, there are close to a dozen doing the rounds, but the top three remain the Royal Ballet's exquisitely traditional version, the sparky family friendly production by Birmingham Royal Ballet, and English National Ballet's – with the best snow scene of them all. Royal Opera House, London (020-7304 4000), 4 December to 16 January; Birmingham Hippodrome (0844 338 5000), to 12 December; London Coliseum (020-7845 9300), 11 December to 5 January.
Father Christmas
Does Father Christmas use the loo? Does he secretly long for summer? Does he have strong views on the size of chimneys? You bet he does. Raymond Briggs's gorgeous picture book gets a heartwarming makeover for under-sixes.
If you wish it could be Christmas every day
Nutcrackers, various
You know it's Christmas in the ballet world by the number of Nutcrackers touring the world's stages. In the UK alone, there are close to a dozen doing the rounds, but the top three remain the Royal Ballet's exquisitely traditional version, the sparky family friendly production by Birmingham Royal Ballet, and English National Ballet's – with the best snow scene of them all. Royal Opera House, London (020-7304 4000), 4 December to 16 January; Birmingham Hippodrome (0844 338 5000), to 12 December; London Coliseum (020-7845 9300), 11 December to 5 January.
Father Christmas
Does Father Christmas use the loo? Does he secretly long for summer? Does he have strong views on the size of chimneys? You bet he does. Raymond Briggs's gorgeous picture book gets a heartwarming makeover for under-sixes.
- 11/25/2013
- by Lyn Gardner, Michael Billington, Andrew Clements, Alexis Petridis, Judith Mackrell, John Fordham, Brian Logan, Stuart Heritage, Mark Lawson, Jonathan Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
Music by John Williams beats The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and West Side Story in poll for BBC's Sound of Cinema season
John Williams' Star Wars theme has been named as the winner of a BBC poll to find the UK's favourite film score.
The music won more than a quarter of the votes, beating Ennio Morricone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly to the top spot in a project organised as part of a season of TV and radio programmes celebrating the 'Sound of Cinema'.
Next was Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story, followed by Maurice Jarre's Lawrence of Arabia and Bernard Herrmann's The Third Man.
More recent films get a look in too, with Hans Zimmer's Dark Knight Rises at number seven and the theme for Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained at number 12.
The top 20 will be performed live by...
John Williams' Star Wars theme has been named as the winner of a BBC poll to find the UK's favourite film score.
The music won more than a quarter of the votes, beating Ennio Morricone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly to the top spot in a project organised as part of a season of TV and radio programmes celebrating the 'Sound of Cinema'.
Next was Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story, followed by Maurice Jarre's Lawrence of Arabia and Bernard Herrmann's The Third Man.
More recent films get a look in too, with Hans Zimmer's Dark Knight Rises at number seven and the theme for Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained at number 12.
The top 20 will be performed live by...
- 9/26/2013
- by Mark Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
Star Wars' main theme has been voted the nation's favourite film score.
The piece, composed by John Williams, received almost a quarter of votes in a poll of BBC Radio 3 listeners.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly came in in second place, with West Side Story in third.
Other movies appearing in the top ten included Vertigo, The Dark Knight Rises, Grease, The Sound of Music and Apocalypse Now.
As part of Radio 3's 'Sound of Cinema' season, the BBC Concert Orchestra will play the top 20 scores live on the station from 2pm today (Friday, September 27).
Radio 3 listeners voted from a shortlist of scores compiled by a panel of BBC movie experts and enthusiasts including BBC Radio 2's Simon Mayo, BBC Radio 6Music's Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC Radio 1's Rhianna Dillon and film music conductor Robert Ziegler.
Listen to the top 20 below:
Williams will also be featured as...
The piece, composed by John Williams, received almost a quarter of votes in a poll of BBC Radio 3 listeners.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly came in in second place, with West Side Story in third.
Other movies appearing in the top ten included Vertigo, The Dark Knight Rises, Grease, The Sound of Music and Apocalypse Now.
As part of Radio 3's 'Sound of Cinema' season, the BBC Concert Orchestra will play the top 20 scores live on the station from 2pm today (Friday, September 27).
Radio 3 listeners voted from a shortlist of scores compiled by a panel of BBC movie experts and enthusiasts including BBC Radio 2's Simon Mayo, BBC Radio 6Music's Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC Radio 1's Rhianna Dillon and film music conductor Robert Ziegler.
Listen to the top 20 below:
Williams will also be featured as...
- 9/26/2013
- Digital Spy
London, Sep 13: BBC has launched a poll to find the greatest movie soundtrack of all time.
The poll, which is a part of 'Sound of Cinema' season of the network, has invited listeners to vote from a shortlist of 20 films.
The shortlisted film scores include, Star Wars, The Sound of Music, The Third Man and West Side Story.
The winning track, receiving the highest votes, will be revealed on Radio 3 and played live by the BBC Concert Orchestra.
The list has been compiled by film fans and experts from across the BBC, including Radio 2's Simon Mayo, Radio 3's Matthew Sweet and Tommy Sandhu from Asian Network.
Other.
The poll, which is a part of 'Sound of Cinema' season of the network, has invited listeners to vote from a shortlist of 20 films.
The shortlisted film scores include, Star Wars, The Sound of Music, The Third Man and West Side Story.
The winning track, receiving the highest votes, will be revealed on Radio 3 and played live by the BBC Concert Orchestra.
The list has been compiled by film fans and experts from across the BBC, including Radio 2's Simon Mayo, Radio 3's Matthew Sweet and Tommy Sandhu from Asian Network.
Other.
- 9/13/2013
- by Smith Cox
- RealBollywood.com
The BBC has launched a poll across its TV and radio stations to find the greatest ever movie soundtrack.
BBC Radio 1's Rhianna Dillon, BBC Radio 2's Simon Mayo, BBC Radio 3's Matthew Sweet, Francine Stock from BBC Radio 4, Mary Anne Hobbs from BBC Radio 6music, Tommy Sandhu from Asian Network and film music conductor Robert Ziegler have joined forces to choose the 20-strong shortlist.
Voting is open now on the BBC website and closes at midnight on Friday, September 20.
The results will be announced and played live by the BBC Concert Orchestra on Friday, September 27 at 2pm and will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
The poll is part of the BBC's Sound of Cinema season, which starts today with the broadcast of the first of a three-part BBC Four series Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made The Movies.
It is presented by Neil Brand and airs at 9pm.
BBC Radio 1's Rhianna Dillon, BBC Radio 2's Simon Mayo, BBC Radio 3's Matthew Sweet, Francine Stock from BBC Radio 4, Mary Anne Hobbs from BBC Radio 6music, Tommy Sandhu from Asian Network and film music conductor Robert Ziegler have joined forces to choose the 20-strong shortlist.
Voting is open now on the BBC website and closes at midnight on Friday, September 20.
The results will be announced and played live by the BBC Concert Orchestra on Friday, September 27 at 2pm and will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
The poll is part of the BBC's Sound of Cinema season, which starts today with the broadcast of the first of a three-part BBC Four series Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made The Movies.
It is presented by Neil Brand and airs at 9pm.
- 9/12/2013
- Digital Spy
This summer, the BBC Asian Network is bringing the biggest, best and newest Asian music around to audiences across the UK. From huge stars to live broadcasts from some of the biggest events in the calendar, the Asian Network will be at the heart of the action.
Mark Strippel, Head of Programmes for the Asian Network, said: “BBC Asian Network is a leading platform for championing new British-Asian and global South-Asian music. Our events this summer, from our New Music Day at Maida Vale to London Mela and the Proms live from the Royal Albert Hall, demonstrate the unparalleled range, depth and quality of our output. The station is a central part of the BBC music portfolio and our position is stronger and clearer than ever. We have some amazing content to deliver to our audience this year.”
The jam-packed calendar of events kicked off today (July 3) at the Asian Network New Music Day.
Mark Strippel, Head of Programmes for the Asian Network, said: “BBC Asian Network is a leading platform for championing new British-Asian and global South-Asian music. Our events this summer, from our New Music Day at Maida Vale to London Mela and the Proms live from the Royal Albert Hall, demonstrate the unparalleled range, depth and quality of our output. The station is a central part of the BBC music portfolio and our position is stronger and clearer than ever. We have some amazing content to deliver to our audience this year.”
The jam-packed calendar of events kicked off today (July 3) at the Asian Network New Music Day.
- 7/5/2013
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
BBC Asian Network is creating a season of Bollywood-related content to mark the 100th Anniversary of the Indian Film Industry with an exciting offering of star interviews, Red Button specials and major BBC collaborations, starting this April.
The centerpiece of the season is a ‘100 Greatest Bollywood Hits’ audience vote to find the greatest Bollywood song ever released. A panel of Bollywood experts will compile the list of songs from the last 100 years and Asian Network listeners will get to vote for their all-time favourite tracks. The station will unveil the panel of star experts next month with an on-air launch.
Asian Network’s successful Red Button TV offering continues with a ‘Bollywood at the BBC’ special with BBC archive content including interviews with Salman Khan, Rekha, Dilip Kumar and music performances from Lata Mangeshkar and Kishore Kumar.
Lata Mangeshkar also returns to BBC Asian Network with a Sanjay Sharma interview...
The centerpiece of the season is a ‘100 Greatest Bollywood Hits’ audience vote to find the greatest Bollywood song ever released. A panel of Bollywood experts will compile the list of songs from the last 100 years and Asian Network listeners will get to vote for their all-time favourite tracks. The station will unveil the panel of star experts next month with an on-air launch.
Asian Network’s successful Red Button TV offering continues with a ‘Bollywood at the BBC’ special with BBC archive content including interviews with Salman Khan, Rekha, Dilip Kumar and music performances from Lata Mangeshkar and Kishore Kumar.
Lata Mangeshkar also returns to BBC Asian Network with a Sanjay Sharma interview...
- 3/29/2013
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
Composer Danny Elfman and Director Tim Burton have worked together on Burton’s films for over 25 years and now they plan to collaborate on a live performance.
Next October, Elfman will sing live on stage for the first time in 18 years (remember kids, he was the front man for Oingo Boingo) accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra. Images from Burton’s films will provide backdrop for the event.
According to the Telegraph, Elfman is especially looking forward to singing parts of The Nightmare Before Christmas.
“The idea of performing some of Jack Skellington's songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas live for the very first time is immensely exciting," he said.
If you happen to be visiting Londontown next October, check out Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton on October 7 at the Royal Albert Hall. I am booking my plane ticket now.
Watch him in action singing for Oingo Boingo below.
Next October, Elfman will sing live on stage for the first time in 18 years (remember kids, he was the front man for Oingo Boingo) accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra. Images from Burton’s films will provide backdrop for the event.
According to the Telegraph, Elfman is especially looking forward to singing parts of The Nightmare Before Christmas.
“The idea of performing some of Jack Skellington's songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas live for the very first time is immensely exciting," he said.
If you happen to be visiting Londontown next October, check out Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton on October 7 at the Royal Albert Hall. I am booking my plane ticket now.
Watch him in action singing for Oingo Boingo below.
- 2/19/2013
- by Sara Castillo
- FEARnet
Frankenweenie director Tim Burton is teaming up with his go-to scorer Danny Elfman for a live concert celebrating their big-screen musical collaborations. The show, set for Oct. 7 at London's Royal Albert Hall, will mark the first time many of Elfman's iconic scores for Burton's films -- including Batman, Edward Scissorhands and Alice in Wonderland -- will receive a public performance, courtesy of the BBC Concert Orchestra. Story: THR's Composer Roundtable: Danny Elfman Reveals He Doesn't Like Working It also will be the first time in nearly 18 years that the former Oingo Boingo frontman will sing live, with Elfman re-creating
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- 2/15/2013
- by Seth Abramovitch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Over a couple years ago, an awesome box set with a collection of soundtracks and previously unreleased music spanning the 25-year collaboration between director Tim Burton and composer Danny Elfman from 1985's Pee-Wee's Big Adventure all the way to 2010's Alice in Wonderland. Now fans of the duo's work will get a chance to take their love to the next level by seeing Burton's work live in person with Elfman performing a concert at the Royal Albert Hall on October 7th. In addition to his score, Elfman will also sing signature songs from his film repertoire, including tunes from The Nightmare Before Christmas. Production artwork and drawings from Burton will accompany the music, with help from the BBC Concert Orchestra as a visual backdrop. Elfman didn't offer any specifics on what music will be featured other than the stop-motion favorite as told The Telegraph, "The idea of performing some of...
- 2/15/2013
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
The Observer's critics pick the season's highlights, from the Misanthrope to Johnny Marr, Lulu to Lichtenstein, H7steria to Hitchcock. What are you most looking forward to? Add your comments below and download a pdf of the calendar here
December | January | FebruaryDecember
1 Film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (3D)
Well, not so very unexpected. Every move has been tracked by fanboys, from the casting of Martin Freeman as Bilbo and Benedict Cumberbatch as the dragon Smaug to the return of the king, Peter Jackson, to take over directing from Guillermo del Toro. But Middle-earth (or, as it's sometimes known, New Zealand) is back for the next three Christmases.
3 Pop Scott Walker
The avant-garde Walker Brother returns with his first album since 2006's The Drift. Not for the faint-hearted, Bish Bosch finds the former romantic hero deep in dystopian territory, at once sonorous and rigorous.
3 Classical H7steria
World premiere of...
December | January | FebruaryDecember
1 Film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (3D)
Well, not so very unexpected. Every move has been tracked by fanboys, from the casting of Martin Freeman as Bilbo and Benedict Cumberbatch as the dragon Smaug to the return of the king, Peter Jackson, to take over directing from Guillermo del Toro. But Middle-earth (or, as it's sometimes known, New Zealand) is back for the next three Christmases.
3 Pop Scott Walker
The avant-garde Walker Brother returns with his first album since 2006's The Drift. Not for the faint-hearted, Bish Bosch finds the former romantic hero deep in dystopian territory, at once sonorous and rigorous.
3 Classical H7steria
World premiere of...
- 12/2/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Hm The Queen has arrived at the Golden Jubilee Concert, taking her seat 90 minutes into the celebrations taking place in front of Buckingham Palace, and joining 100,000 revellers partying along the Mall.
The duty of kick-starting the show fell to Robbie Williams - bandmate of the evening's organiser Gary Barlow - who took to the floor for a suitably crowd-rousing rendition of Let Me Entertain You.
He later returned to the stage, showing his versatile abilities with a jazzy version of Mack The Knife - with lyrics suitably customised to honour the event, including references to Cheryl Cole and even Towie, and royal box incumbents Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie.
What Was Your Favourite Moment Of The Night? Let Us Know Below...
One of the highlights of the evening was when the 200-strong musicians on Barlow's official Jubilee song, Sing, came together to perform on stage. It was a technical challenge of...
The duty of kick-starting the show fell to Robbie Williams - bandmate of the evening's organiser Gary Barlow - who took to the floor for a suitably crowd-rousing rendition of Let Me Entertain You.
He later returned to the stage, showing his versatile abilities with a jazzy version of Mack The Knife - with lyrics suitably customised to honour the event, including references to Cheryl Cole and even Towie, and royal box incumbents Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie.
What Was Your Favourite Moment Of The Night? Let Us Know Below...
One of the highlights of the evening was when the 200-strong musicians on Barlow's official Jubilee song, Sing, came together to perform on stage. It was a technical challenge of...
- 6/4/2012
- by The Huffington Post UK
- Huffington Post
London — The celebration of the 60-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II is ready to rock `n' roll.
A gala concert kicks off at Buckingham Palace on Monday evening with a full hand of knights – Sir Elton John, Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Cliff Richard and Sir Tom Jones – heading the lineup, along with Dame Shirley Bassey and younger artists including Jls, Kylie Minogue and Will.i.am.
Will the queen enjoy it? Her musical tastes are a mystery, and the Press Association news agency reported she brought a pair of earplugs to a similar concert a decade ago. According to The Guardian newspaper, the only song the queen has ever been known to request is "Some Enchanted Evening" from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "South Pacific."
"It may not be that pop or rock is her favorite music, but she has certainly supported us over the years and in return of course we have supported her,...
A gala concert kicks off at Buckingham Palace on Monday evening with a full hand of knights – Sir Elton John, Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Cliff Richard and Sir Tom Jones – heading the lineup, along with Dame Shirley Bassey and younger artists including Jls, Kylie Minogue and Will.i.am.
Will the queen enjoy it? Her musical tastes are a mystery, and the Press Association news agency reported she brought a pair of earplugs to a similar concert a decade ago. According to The Guardian newspaper, the only song the queen has ever been known to request is "Some Enchanted Evening" from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "South Pacific."
"It may not be that pop or rock is her favorite music, but she has certainly supported us over the years and in return of course we have supported her,...
- 6/4/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
By Paul Kilbey
Adapted from a piece on I Care If You Listen
I really want to like Jonny Greenwood’s compositional career. Radiohead were the first band I loved, and I think that they helped shape my musical tastes and aesthetics more than most composers. I recall excitedly pre-ordering Greenwood’s first classical foray, the soundtrack to the film Bodysong, as soon as I found out about it back in 2003. And I was thrilled the following year by the announcement that he had been recruited to the position of Composer in Residence for the BBC Concert Orchestra. This was evidence, to my excitable teenage brain, that pop music was real, that it could achieve things, that my school music teacher was wrong. Pop music mattered. There was a composer in Radiohead.
Jonny Greenwood
I know that’s not how it works, now. Pop music does matter, but composers have nothing to do with it.
Adapted from a piece on I Care If You Listen
I really want to like Jonny Greenwood’s compositional career. Radiohead were the first band I loved, and I think that they helped shape my musical tastes and aesthetics more than most composers. I recall excitedly pre-ordering Greenwood’s first classical foray, the soundtrack to the film Bodysong, as soon as I found out about it back in 2003. And I was thrilled the following year by the announcement that he had been recruited to the position of Composer in Residence for the BBC Concert Orchestra. This was evidence, to my excitable teenage brain, that pop music was real, that it could achieve things, that my school music teacher was wrong. Pop music mattered. There was a composer in Radiohead.
Jonny Greenwood
I know that’s not how it works, now. Pop music does matter, but composers have nothing to do with it.
- 5/31/2012
- Huffington Post
Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood holds Krzysztof Penderecki, Poland's foremost contemporary composer, in awe. And the feelings are very much mutual, the pair explain
It wasn't the most auspicious of meetings: "I shook his hand after a concert like a sad fan-boy." Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead's creative catalyst, one of the world's great guitarists, and floppy-haired pin-up boy for the musically adventurous even in his early 40s, is talking about 78-year-old Polish classical composer Krzysztof Penderecki. For most of the musical world, it would be Greenwood who had the star quality rather than Poland's most eminent living composer – even if Penderecki did break creative barriers in the 1950s and 60s that are still rocking Greenwood's world. In fact, Greenwood's obsessive enthusiasm for Penderecki's music, especially his still radical early work, has brought the sounds of musical modernism to new audiences in ways Penderecki could only dream of.
Greenwood's fan-boyism has also...
It wasn't the most auspicious of meetings: "I shook his hand after a concert like a sad fan-boy." Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead's creative catalyst, one of the world's great guitarists, and floppy-haired pin-up boy for the musically adventurous even in his early 40s, is talking about 78-year-old Polish classical composer Krzysztof Penderecki. For most of the musical world, it would be Greenwood who had the star quality rather than Poland's most eminent living composer – even if Penderecki did break creative barriers in the 1950s and 60s that are still rocking Greenwood's world. In fact, Greenwood's obsessive enthusiasm for Penderecki's music, especially his still radical early work, has brought the sounds of musical modernism to new audiences in ways Penderecki could only dream of.
Greenwood's fan-boyism has also...
- 2/24/2012
- by Tom Service
- The Guardian - Film News
Royal Albert Hall, London
Stravinsky wrote that film music should bear the same relationship to the film drama as "somebody's piano playing in my living-room has to the book I am reading". He was quite wrong, of course, and many find they would leave off reading to hear the pianist better. But he was partly right: you can rarely discard the book altogether.
This is why the most powerful item in this film music Prom – performed by Keith Lockhart and his indefatigable BBC Concert Orchestra – turned out to be Walton's Henry V, for which the actor Rory Kinnear read selections from Shakespeare's play. I thought it would be Herrmann's Psycho, which is a superbly crafted score. But the famous string glissandi which, in the film, mark the shift from growing unease to open-mouthed horror were here greeted by an outbreak of chuckling. By contrast, Kinnear's masterfully delivered readings held the entire hall spellbound,...
Stravinsky wrote that film music should bear the same relationship to the film drama as "somebody's piano playing in my living-room has to the book I am reading". He was quite wrong, of course, and many find they would leave off reading to hear the pianist better. But he was partly right: you can rarely discard the book altogether.
This is why the most powerful item in this film music Prom – performed by Keith Lockhart and his indefatigable BBC Concert Orchestra – turned out to be Walton's Henry V, for which the actor Rory Kinnear read selections from Shakespeare's play. I thought it would be Herrmann's Psycho, which is a superbly crafted score. But the famous string glissandi which, in the film, mark the shift from growing unease to open-mouthed horror were here greeted by an outbreak of chuckling. By contrast, Kinnear's masterfully delivered readings held the entire hall spellbound,...
- 8/14/2011
- by Guy Dammann
- The Guardian - Film News
The rock boffin is to return to movie soundtracks, writing music for an adaptation of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood
Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood will reportedly return to film scoring, writing music for an adaptation of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood. The score will be based on a composition Greenwood wrote for the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Greenwood's last foray into feature films was his Grammy-nominated soundtrack for Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood. Just as that score was derived from an earlier work, Popcorn Superhet Receiver, Greenwood's composition expands upon an orchestral piece called Dogwood, which debuted last month.
The maverick musician announced the project at BBC's Maida Vale studios, following Dogwood's premiere. "I wrote [the] piece mostly in hotels and dressing rooms while touring with Radiohead," he told TwentyFourBit. "This was more practical than glamorous – lots of time sitting indoors, lots of instruments about – and aside from picking...
Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood will reportedly return to film scoring, writing music for an adaptation of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood. The score will be based on a composition Greenwood wrote for the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Greenwood's last foray into feature films was his Grammy-nominated soundtrack for Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood. Just as that score was derived from an earlier work, Popcorn Superhet Receiver, Greenwood's composition expands upon an orchestral piece called Dogwood, which debuted last month.
The maverick musician announced the project at BBC's Maida Vale studios, following Dogwood's premiere. "I wrote [the] piece mostly in hotels and dressing rooms while touring with Radiohead," he told TwentyFourBit. "This was more practical than glamorous – lots of time sitting indoors, lots of instruments about – and aside from picking...
- 3/8/2010
- by Sean Michaels
- The Guardian - Film News
The BFI and the BBC and holding the 3rd “Blast – Future Film Festival” in London from Friday 5th Feb to Sunday 7th Feb with the opportunity to get both theoretical and hands-on experience in a variety of aspects of filmmaking so if you’re aged between 13 and 25 and free to come then you’ll want to check out their website.
Join BBC Blast and the BFI for a weekend packed with free filmmaking workshops – everything from special effects to stunt skills. Check out our free film screenings and exclusive movie previews. Don’t miss your chance to put your questions to on-screen stars and behind-the-scenes talent.
Although some of the popular workshops, such as the Stunt Masterclass, Green Screen and Animation workshops, are fully-booked here’s a sample of some of the ones still available:
Special effects demo - How do they do it? Get the inside story from the...
Join BBC Blast and the BFI for a weekend packed with free filmmaking workshops – everything from special effects to stunt skills. Check out our free film screenings and exclusive movie previews. Don’t miss your chance to put your questions to on-screen stars and behind-the-scenes talent.
Although some of the popular workshops, such as the Stunt Masterclass, Green Screen and Animation workshops, are fully-booked here’s a sample of some of the ones still available:
Special effects demo - How do they do it? Get the inside story from the...
- 1/29/2010
- by Colin Hart
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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