All in all it was a great show. The orchestra took a while (about half way into the Star Wars piece) to get warmed up and pull it together but when they did, they were unstoppable. Alongside the music, they also prepeared clips from the films acording to what the music was describing. Seing as it is very heard to time live music to a specific time frame, they did a great job. They were pretty much on point the whole time and when they slowed down, someone pushed the pause button and waited it out. It looked pretty funny but it worked.
There we loads of people there and, of course, nowhere to sit. So, we stood in the back for a couple of "songs" and than we found a seat in the very-near-by pub and tried to guess the film. The most comfusing was James Bond. We couldn't figure it out until about a minute into the piece when the famous theme began. And all through the piece there were strange parts that weren't at all tipical for the film.
As the last number they played music from a 1957 Slovenian film "Ne čakaj na Maj" (something like "Don't Wait for the Month of May") which was pretty much just the title song and not much else. I wouldn't say it qualifies as film music because the song itself is pretty famous around here.
I love good classical music and I love music for film, fo for me, this was a great night. I remember the orchestra being better but they have a lot of new young people now and they are trully on their way to their foremr glory. One of the trumpeters even transcribed the 20th Century Fox theme for the wind orchestra (it was originally composed for simphony orchestra) and that to me is very impressing.
I leave you with the song "Ne čakaj na maj", composed by Borut Lesjak, lyrics by Fran Milčinski
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