The Music of Hans Zimmer

HANS ZIMMER ART OF THE SCORE:

THE MUSIC OF

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PROGRAM 3–4 MAY

ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE, HAMER HALL

Acknowledging Country In the first project of its kind in Australia, the MSO has developed a musical Acknowledgment of Country with music composed by Yorta Yorta composer Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO, featuring Indigenous languages from across Victoria. Generously supported by Helen Macpherson Smith Trust and the Commonwealth Government through the Australian National Commission for UNESCO, the MSO is working in partnership with Short Black Opera and Indigenous language custodians who are generously sharing their cultural knowledge.

The Acknowledgement of Country allows us to pay our respects to the traditional owners of the land on which we perform in the language of that country and in the orchestral language of music.

About Long Time Living Here In all the world, only Australia can lay claim to the longest continuing cultures and we celebrate this more today than in any other time since our shared history began. We live each day drawing energy from a land which has been nurtured by the traditional owners for more than 2000 generations. When we acknowledge country we pay respect to the land and to the people in equal measure.

As a composer I have specialised in coupling the beauty and diversity of our Indigenous languages with the power and intensity of classical music.

In order to compose the music for this Acknowledgement of Country Project I have had the great privilege of working with no fewer than eleven ancient languages from the state of Victoria, including the language of my late Grandmother, Yorta Yorta woman Frances McGee. I pay my deepest respects to the elders and ancestors who are represented in these songs of acknowledgement and to the language custodians who have shared their knowledge and expertise in providing each text.

I am so proud of the MSO for initiating this landmark project and grateful that they afforded me the opportunity to make this contribution to the ongoing quest of understanding our belonging in this land.

— Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO

PROGRAM ACT 1 Sherlock Holmes – Discombobulate ZIMMER Driving Miss Daisy - Theme ZIMMER Pirates of the Caribbean Suite ZIMMER/BADELT The Thin Red Line – Journey To The Line ZIMMER The Holiday – Maestro ZIMMER Inception Suite ZIMMER ACT 2 The Lion King Orchestra Suite ZIMMER Kung Fu Panda – Oogway Ascends ZIMMER/POWELL The Da Vinci Code – Chevaliers de Sangreal ZIMMER Batman – The Dark Knight Suite ZIMMER/HOWARD Interstellar Suite ZIMMER Gladiator Suite ZIMMER/GERRARD

ARTISTS MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA NICHOLAS BUC conductor ART OF THE SCORE ANDREW POGSON host DAN GOLDING host NICHOLAS BUC host This concert is produced in association with Concert Lab

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Art of the Score: The Music of Hans Zimmer Today, when you go to the movies, you’ll hear Hans Zimmer.

You might hear the composer himself, who is surely one of the most prolific creatives in any field working in Hollywood today. In 2021 alone, Zimmer released the soundtracks for six major films, including No Time to Die and Dune, while he worked on another two scores for the following year, as well as music for four television series. Today, especially when you’re seeing the biggest productions Hollywood has to offer, chances are they’ll be scored by Hans Zimmer, who along with John Williams is one of the few film composers to become a genuine household name.

But even if you don’t hear Zimmer himself at your local multiplex, you’re still likely to hear his influence.

Hollywood directors, videogame studios, and even reality television producers today all want that Zimmer sound. If you go to a movie like Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning (2023) you’ll hear music by Lorne Balfe, a protégé of Zimmer’s and a long-term collaborator at Zimmer’s Remote Control studios. If you go and see Aquaman (2018) you’ll hear a soundtrack composed by Rupert Gregson-Williams, another Remote Control associate. Or, on the small screen, tune in for an episode of Game of Thrones, Westworld, or House of the Dragon and you’ll hear yet another Zimmer mentee, Ramin Djawadi. Each composer has their own ability, their own skill, and their own sound—but each also follows in the footsteps of Zimmer, as do many who have never officially collaborated with the man himself. Zimmer is everywhere.

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So how did Hans Zimmer become the man who changed the way we hear the movies?

Born in Frankfurt in 1957 to a musician mother and an engineer father, Zimmer grew up with “one foot in the music camp and the other foot in the technology camp,” as he told an interviewer in 2013. It was to prove an auspicious beginning. Despite only sustaining interest enough for two weeks of piano lessons as a child, Zimmer quickly took to synthesisers in his twenties and meandered his way through several rock bands in 1970s London including The Buggles, and Zimmer can to this day be seen on keyboards at the back of their music video for “Video Killed the Radio Star”. Falling in with veteran film composer Stanley Myers (The Deer Hunter), Zimmer apprenticed in the UK film industry before breaking into Hollywood first with his music for Rain Man (1988) and then Driving Miss Daisy (1989). He was a man in-demand in the 1990s, with his mixture of slightly dorky early digital music-making and the familiar film orchestra giving the movies he wrote music for, like Thelma & Louise (1991), Crimson Tide (1995), and The Rock (1996) a burst of fresh energy (and, in the case of The Lion King, an Academy Award for Zimmer along the way).

The new millennium, and a string of critical and financial successes in the form of The Thin Red Line (1998), Gladiator (2000, co-composed with Australian Lisa Gerrard), and then the Pirates of the Caribbean (2003) and Batman Begins (2005–2012) franchises cemented Hans Zimmer as Hollywood’s musical man of the moment. This Hans Zimmer was a long

Zimmer’s music has always been negotiated through technology. Not content with the usual electronic synthesisers used by composers in the 1980s, Zimmer quickly moved on to writing music for samplers and virtual instruments, where highly sophisticated digital technology is deployed to create an orchestral sound on a single computer. Gone overnight, it seemed, were the days where a director would hear their score for the first time with hundreds of musicians at the recording studio.

For Gladiator, director Ridley Scott and editor Pietro Scalia moved into Zimmer’s music studio to cut the film while Zimmer composed next door, with ideas shared, tested, and debated in real time. Today, Zimmer writes at least partly as much for computer as for orchestra.

“Hans is a minimalist composer with a sort of maximalist production sense,” says director Christopher Nolan, one of Zimmer’s most significant collaborators.

From the mid-2000s the Zimmer sound became exactly this—simple musical ideas suffused into extremities. His Batman theme from The Dark Knight trilogy, for example, is just two notes, like a musical bat-signal illuminating the clouds above in its sign-like simplicity.

Zimmer’s beloved ‘Time’ from Nolan’s Inception (2010) is also a case in point, with just four simple chords repeated in the same order over and over from the beginning of the piece to its conclusion.

It’s Zimmer’s sense of epochal scale that makes the track: we begin ‘Time’

whisper-quiet on piano, and over the course of four-and-a-half minutes reach the full might of fortissimo symphony orchestra and Zimmer’s bag of digital production tricks. It is breathtaking.

“They can just turn the music louder and louder and louder,” says Nolan, “because you realise the momentum of the film is entirely defined by the structure of the music.”

Yet the moment you think that the rest of the film industry has cottoned on to Zimmer’s style, he moves on. “You have to learn how to deal with the technology so it doesn’t drive you,” says Zimmer in a lesson that some of his imitators have never learnt.

Today, Zimmer’s career spans as wide a variety as the church organs of Interstellar (2014), the reverb-drenched synths of Blade Runner 2049 (2017), the rumble of Dune (2021), and the musical nostalgia of No Time to Die (2021).

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way from the man who composed the very 1980s beat of Driving Miss Daisy.

This Zimmer’s music was muscular and powerful, delving into a musical vocabulary informed by rock and pop, German art music of the likes of Wagner and Mahler, and the digital tools Zimmer used and developed along the way.

In all cases, what you remember is more than music. You remember the power of the soundtrack and the overwhelming emotion of Zimmer’s score. You remember music that is bigger than you are, that is bigger than the moment. You remember music that is bigger, even, than Hans Zimmer. © Dan Golding 2023

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Musicians Performing in this Concert FIRST VIOLINS

Tair Khisambeev

Assistant Concertmaster Di Jameson and Frank Mercurio#

VIOLAS

Christopher Moore Principal Di Jameson and Frank Mercurio#

Kirsty Bremner

Lauren Brigden

Amanda Chen

William Clark

Sarah Curro

Gabrielle Halloran

Peter Fellin

Fiona Sargeant

Deborah Goodall

Isabel Morse*

Anne-Marie Johnson

Molly Collier-O’Boyle*

Kirstin Kenny

Karen Columbine*

Eleanor Mancini Mark Mogilevski Michelle Ruffolo Kathryn Taylor Michael-Loftus Hills*

SECOND VIOLINS

Matthew Tomkins

Principal The Gross Foundation#

Mary Allison Isin Cakmakcioglu Freya Franzen Cong Gu

Newton Family in memory of Rae Rothfield#

Andrew Hall Isy Wasserman Philippa West

Andrew Dudgeon AM#

Patrick Wong

Hyon Ju Newman#

Roger Young

Shane Buggle and Rosie Callanan#

Madeleine Jevons*

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Correct as of 24 April 2023 Learn more about our musicians on the MSO website.

CELLOS

David Berlin Principal

Angela Sargeant Michelle Wood

Andrew and Judy Rogers#

Jonathan Chim* Nils Hobiger* Erna Lai*

DOUBLE BASSES

Rohan Dasika

Benjamin Hanlon

Frank Mercurio and Di Jameson#

Suzanne Lee Stephen Newton

Sophie Galaise and Clarence Fraser#

Luca Arcaro*

FLUTES

Prudence Davis Principal Anonymous#

Sarah Beggs

PICCOLO

Andrew Macleod Principal

Guest Principal

Ann Blackburn

The Rosemary Norman Foundation#

COR ANGLAIS

Rachel Curkpatrick* Guest Principal

CLARINETS

David Thomas Principal

Craig Hill

BASS CLARINET

Jon Craven Principal

BASSOONS

Jack Schiller Principal

HORNS

TIMPANI

Saul Lewis

Principal Third The late Hon Michael Watt KC and Cecilie Hall#

Abbey Edlin

Nereda Hanlon and Michael Hanlon AM#

Rachel Shaw

Gary McPherson

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Rebecca Luton*

TRUMPETS

Shane Hooton

Associate Principal Glenn Sedgwick#

William Evans Rosie Turner

John and Diana Frew#

TROMBONES Richard Shirley

Natasha Thomas

Mike Szabo

CONTRABASSOON

Timothy Buzbee

Dr Martin Tymms and Patricia Nilsson#

Brock Imison

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OBOES

Emmanuel Cassimatis*

Scott Weatherson Acting Principal

PERCUSSION

Shaun Trubiano Acting Principal

John Arcaro

Tim and Lyn Edward#

Robert Cossom

Drs Rhyl Wade and Clem Gruen#

HARP

Yinuo Mu Principal

Robert Allan* Lara Wilson*

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Principal Bass Trombone

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Principal

Principal

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ART OF THE SCORE Art of the Score is a Melbourne-based podcast that explores, demystifies and celebrates some of the greatest soundtracks of all time from the world of film, TV and video games. In each episode hosts Andrew Pogson, Dan Golding and Nicholas Buc check out a soundtrack they love, break down its main themes, explore what makes the score tick and hopefully impart their love of the world of soundtracks.

Art of the Score has enjoyed time in the iTunes Top 10, What’s Hot and New & Noteworthy lists and is listened to by soundtrack geeks all around the world.

Head on over to artofthescore.com.au for more nerdery and tomfoolery.

NICHOLAS BUC conductor

Nicholas Buc is an Award-winning composer, conductor and arranger. As the recipient of the prestigious Brian May Scholarship, he completed a Master’s degree in Scoring for Film and Multimedia at New York University, receiving the Elmer Bernstein Award for Film Scoring.

He recently completed work on the new Australian feature film Slant, starring Sigrid Thornton and Pia Miranda, which won Best Australian Feature at Monster Fest 2022. He also scored the Ukrainian documentary Slava, which won Best Short Film at Byron All Shorts Flickerfest 2023.

He has worked with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, Chris Botti, Amanda Palmer, Ben Folds and Australian pop sensation Tina Arena. He has written arrangements for Birds of Tokyo, Missy Higgins and Vera Blue as well as working on Junior MasterChef, The Voice Australia and the 2021 AFL Grand Final.

Nicholas is highly sought after as a conductor for live film concerts, having conducted the world premieres of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Lion King (2019), Beauty and the Beast (2017), Shrek 2 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.

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He is also the only person in the world to have conducted all three original Star Wars films in concert...in one day!

A/PROF. DAN GOLDING host

Associate Professor Dan Golding is Deputy Chair of Media and Communication at Swinburne University, the host of Screen Sounds on ABC Classic, and an award-winning composer and writer.

Dan is the author of Star Wars After Lucas (University of Minnesota Press, 2019), and the co-author of Game Changers (Affirm Press, 2016). He also created the soundtrack for the BAFTA, DICE, and GDCA winning Untitled Goose Game (2019), which became the first game soundtrack to be nominated for an ARIA award in history.

Other composing includes the soundtracks for Push Me Pull You (2016) and the Frog Detective series, for which his score for The Haunted Island (2018) won the APRA-AMCOS Australian Game Developer award for Best Music. Dan recently composed the theme for the ABC’s flagship podcast, ABC News Daily. Find him on Twitter @dangolding, or online at dangolding.com.

ANDREW POGSON host

Andrew Pogson is a producer, director and jazz musician who has worked in the music industry for over 20 years.

He is the founder and Creative Director of Concert Lab, a concert producing and production company, and was previously the Head of Presentations at the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

He has worked with artists such as Sting, Randy Newman, Tim Minchin, Ben Folds, Joe Hisaishi and Studio Ghibli, Kate Miller-Heidke and Flight Facilities, along with creating and producing world premieres with the MSO such as The Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular, Video Games Unplugged, Babe in Concert, Symphonica featuring Armand Van Helden, The Film Music of Nick Cave & Warren Ellis and This Gaming Life with music comedy trio Tripod (where he also hosts their podcast Perfectly Good Podcast). Find him on Twitter @JazzNerd.

L - R: Dan Golding, Andrew Pogson and Nicholas Buc. Photo credit: Melanie Hiluta

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The Gross Foundation Matthew Tomkins Dr Clem Gruen and Dr Rhyl Wade Robert Cossom Danny Gorog and Lindy Susskind Monica Curro Cecilie Hall and the late Hon Michael Watt KC Saul Lewis Nereda Hanlon and Michael Hanlon AM Abbey Edlin

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Di Jameson and Frank Mercurio Benjamin Hanlon, Tair Khisambeev, Christopher Moore

Margaret Jackson AC Nicolas Fleury

Jeanne Pratt AC Anonymous MSO Ambassador Geoffrey Rush AC The MSO honours the memory of Life Members Mrs Eva Besen AO John Brockman OAM The Honourable Alan Goldberg AO QC Roger Riordan AM Ila Vanrenen

MSO BOARD

Chairman

Xian Zhang Principal Guest Conductor

Co-Deputy Chairs

David Li AM Di Jameson

Benjamin Northey Principal Conductor in Residence

SUPPORTERS

MSO ARTISTIC FAMILY

Jaime Martín Chief Conductor

Helen Silver AO Managing Director

Carlo Antonioli Cybec Assistant Conductor Fellow

Sophie Galaise Board Directors

Sir Andrew Davis Conductor Laureate

Shane Buggle Andrew Dudgeon AM

Hiroyuki Iwaki † Conductor Laureate (1974–2006)

Lorraine Hook Margaret Jackson AC

Warren Trevelyan-Jones MSO Chorus Director

David Krasnostein AM

Siobhan Stagg 2023 Soloist in Residence

Gary McPherson

Gondwana Voices 2023 Ensemble in Residence

Hyon-Ju Newman

Christian Li Young Artist in Association

Company Secretary

Farrel Meltzer Glenn Sedgwick Oliver Carton

Mary Finsterer 2023 Composer in Residence Melissa Douglas 2023 Cybec Young Composer in Residence Christopher Moore Creative Producer, MSO Chamber Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO MSO First Nations Creative Chair Dr Anita Collins Creative Chair for Learning and Engagement Artistic Ambassadors Tan Dun Lu Siqing

The MSO relies on your ongoing philanthropic support to sustain our artists, and support access, education, community engagement and more. We invite our supporters to get close to the MSO through a range of special events.

The MSO welcomes your support at any level. Donations of $2 and over are tax deductible, and supporters are recognised as follows: $500+ (Overture)

$5,000+ (Principal)

$50,000+ (Virtuoso)

$1,000+ (Player)

$10,000+ (Maestro)

$100,000+ (Platinum)

$2,500+ (Associate)

$20,000+ (Impresario)

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EDUCATION PARTNER

PREMIER PARTNERS

MAJOR PARTNERS

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TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS

Freemasons Foundation Victoria

The Sir Andrew and Lady Fairley Foundation, Flora & Frank Leith Trust, Perpetual Foundation – Alan (AGL) Shaw Endowment, Sidney Myer MSO Trust Fund