Montage: Great Film Composers and the Piano
Los Angeles, California“The stars of this program have been nominated for 73 Academy Awards and won 9. You know their work. But do you know them?”
“Montage: Great Film Composers and the Piano” chronicles what happened when celebrated pianist Gloria Cheng challenged the world’s greatest film composers – Williams, Newman, Giacchino, Broughton, Desplat and Davis – to write original pieces for solo piano. No movie. No orchestra. Just Gloria at the piano. Be a fly on the wall for these once-in-a-lifetime recording sessions as we get to see these titans of film music like we’ve never seen them before.
Premiered October 15, 2016.