When my friend Silvia told me that at the
Teatro Arcimboldi in
Milan it would have been an event connected with
La La Land (
here my film review), I immediately set the alarm clock to get the tickets.
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| the poster of the event |
The thing that makes this event special is that I watched the film while the
orchestra played the instrumental part of the
soundtrack of the film and not only the tracks which were only instrumental, but also the
songs. The match was so perfect that I had to look at the musicians to understand if they were playing or not.
I really liked the
pianist, the
saxophonist and the
double bass player, who were
really good, but all the orchestra deserved to be listened to. I didn't like how they played the Jazz tracks (as "
Herman's Habit"), which were not "Jazz" enough to me .
Another
magical element was the
use of lights in the theatre, which
reproduced the colours of the different scenes: if the palette was more
violet, there were violet lights; when the band where Sebastian played at a club, in the theatre there were
red strobe lights as if we were at that club.
My
favourite moment of the concert was when the
spotlight lighted up only the
pianist as it was happening in the film:
The orchestra, obviously, kept on playing even during the
end credits, but some persons started to
leave the theatre unexpectedly: it was not just an event to let people watch the film again on theatres, but also to listen to the
live music of a professional orchestra.
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| A photo I took during the end credits |
I hope to see this kind of events also in the future, because they represent three of my passions: music, films and theatre.
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Bye for now!
Yours, Silvia
p.s. let me know my clicking on the list on the left side of the blog which film review you would like to read!
