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SUNDAY JULY 5, 6:00 PM SYMPHONY SERIES
GERALD R. FORD AMPHITHEATER
DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Jeff Tyzik, conductor
KORNGOLD Overture to Captain Blood
STEINER “Tara’s Theme” from Gone with the Wind Suite from Casablanca
RÓZSA Overture, Love Theme, and March from El Cid
ARLEN/ ARR. TYZIK Suite from The Wizard of Oz
MANCINI Theme from The Pink Panther “Moon River” from Breakfast at Tiffany’s Theme from Peter Gunn
— INTERMISSION —... WILLIAMS Superman March “Hedwig’s Theme” from Harry Potter “Adventure on Earth” from E.T. (The Extra-Terrestrial) “Flight to Neverland” from Hook Suite from Far and Away Theme from Jurassic Park “The Throne Room” from Star Wars
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HOLLYWOOD CLASSICS & JOHN WILLIAMS
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ARNER BROTHERS’ CAPTAIN BLOOD (1935), directed by Michael Curtiz, was Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s (1897-1957) first original Hollywood score and the first of eight movies starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. The sweeping tale, set in the 17th century, concerns Dr. Peter Blood (Flynn), who is wrongly sentenced for treason in England and transported to the West Indies to be sold into slavery. Blood escapes and takes up piracy, but redeems himself by saving a British colony from a French invasion, after which he is made governor of the island and wins the hand of the lovely Arabella (de Havilland). Gone with the Wind, producer David O. Selznick’s screen adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic novel about the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction, was a phenomenon at its release in 1939 and remains one of Hollywood’s enduring classics. Tara’s Theme from the Oscarnominated score by Max Steiner (1888-1971) is associated with the Georgia cotton plantation that is the film’s symbolic image. In Casablanca (1942), Rick (Humphrey Bogart) is the American owner of a café in Morocco that is a clandestine center for Europeans trying to escape to the west. Two who solicit his help are Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), a fugitive Czech Resistance leader, and his wife, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), with whom Rick had an affair in Paris years before. Rick helps them leave the country, but at the sacrifice of his own feelings for Ilsa. Steiner’s Oscar-nominated score brilliantly utilizes his original background music, popular songs, traditional French and German patriotic anthems, and As Time Goes By, originally written by Herman Hupfeld for the 1931 Broadway musical Everybody’s Welcome. Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, El Cid (“The Conqueror”), was the 11th-century Spanish nobleman and warrior who sought to free his country from civil war and protect it from Moorish invaders. Miklós Rózsa (1907-1995) received Oscar nominations for Best Score and for Best Song for the film. Frank L. Baum’s fantasy for children The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) had already been treated as a 1903 Broadway musical and a silent movie in 1925 before MGM made its screen version in 1939. Composer Harold Arlen (1905-1986) and lyricist E.Y. “Yip” Harburg wrote the songs and veteran MGM staff arranger, composer and conductor Herbert Stothart provided the background score. The Pink Panther (1963), named for a fabulous pink diamond with a flaw at its center said to resemble a leaping panther, was