The Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO) will perform The Madness/Lightness of Being at the Brighton Corn Exchange on November 16 at 7.30pm.
Fresh from the world premiere of her Silent Sherlock score at the BFI London Film Festival, head conductor and pianist Joanna MacGregor will perform and conduct the Brighton Philharmonic Strings.
The concert brings together Bernard Hermann’s unforgettable Suite from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho alongside works by Schnittke, Piazzolla, Bach and Ukraine’s most famous living composer Valentin Silvestrov.
The BPO is marking its 100th anniversary with a centenary season that will run until April next year.
Tickets can be booked from £25 by visiting: https://brightondome.org/whats-on/.
Hitchcock had a close artistic relationship with American composer Hermann who composed soundtracks for seven of his films, the most recognisable being from Hitchcock’s Psycho.
Unusual for a thriller at the time, the score uses only the string section of the orchestra.
The BPO Strings perform Hermann’s orchestral arrangement of his film score matched with another composer who wrote over sixty film scores, Alfred Schnittke.
Schnittke’s brilliantly cinematic piano concerto, a series of short wild scenes culminating in a massive cadenza, is prefaced by Tango in a Madhouse: bittersweet, written as an allegory of oppression under the Soviet Union.
