the first of eleven film comedies featuring the character of the bumbling French police inspector Jacques Clouseau, an iconic screen character originated by Peter Sellers. The film was written and directed by Blake Edwards with music by Henry Mancini (19241994), whose score earned Oscar and Grammy nominations. Blake Edward’s 1961 Breakfast at Tiffany’s, based on Truman Capote’s novella, starred the irresistible Audrey Hepburn as the aspiring socialite Holly Golightly in a performance that earned her an Oscar nomination. Mancini’s music won him one Academy Award for Best Score and another for Best Song, Moon River, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. Peter Gunn, which ran on NBC and later ABC from 1958 to 1961, won an Emmy and two Grammys for Mancini and set a precedent for the use of cool modern jazz in television soundtracks. The series, which starred Craig Stevens as a suave, well-dressed private eye, was created, written and directed by Blake Edwards. Superman, starring Christopher Reeve, was director Richard Donner’s 1978 screen realization of America’s quintessential superhero, created in Cleveland in 1932 by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster. The film was nominated for four Oscars, including the score by John Williams (b. 1932), which received a Grammy. J.K. Rowling tapped a deep vein of wonder, magic and mystery in millions of readers with her books about the boy wizard Harry Potter and the forces of good and evil ranged around him at CONTINUED ON PAGE 181
BRAVO! VAIL GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES SUPPORT FROM THE FRIENDS OF THE DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PREMIER BENEFACTOR
SILVER ( $10,000+ )
( $30,000+ )
Arlene and John Dayton Mike A. Myers Foundation Patti and Blaine Nelson Doug Rippeto
Shirley and William S. McIntyre, IV The Sturm Family Foundation
PLATINUM ( $25,000+ ) Hill Foundation Billie and Ross McKnight
GOLD ( $15,000+ )
HENRY MANCINI ENTERPRISES
Marilyn Augur Sallie and Robert Fawcett Vicki Rippeto Marcy and Stephen Sands Carole A. Watters
BRONZE ( $5,000+ ) Diane and Hal Brierley Peggy and Gary Edwards Cindy Engles Amy and Vernon Faulconer Carol and Ronnie Goldman Carol and Jeff Heller Alexia and Jerry Jurschak Bobbi and Richard Massman Brenda and Joe McHugh Karen and Al Meitz Jane and Howard Parker Debbie and Ric Scripps
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INSIDE STORY
ON MUSIC, MOVIES & STORYTELLING It was on my twelfth birthday that my father really gave my life a direction and purpose when he took me to a Pittsburgh movie palace, where we saw Cecil B. DeMille’s epic The Crusades. I was so naïve, so unworldly, I thought the music was coming from behind the screen. When I learned that the sound of the orchestra was actually in the movie, that music was an integral part of the storytelling, I knew that one day when I grew up, I was going to write music for the movies. It’s easy to take music for granted, to not think about where all the songs and singers and symphonies come from—but we should. We should think about it, because music affects our lives every day. Through music and the other arts we can capture life, reflecting its joys, its sorrows, and its complexities.
The Antlers at Vail and Manor Vail Lodge are the official homes of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra while in residence at Bravo! Vail.
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