BACK TO THE FUTURE

A ROBERT ZEMECKIS Film

MICHAEL J. FOX CHRISTOPHER LLOYD

LEA THOMPSON CRISPIN GLOVER

Written by ROBERT ZEMECKIS & BOB GALE

Music by ALAN SILVESTRI

Produced by BOB GALE and NEIL CANTON

Executive Producers STEVEN SPIELBERG KATHLEEN KENNEDY and FRANK MARSHALL

Directed by ROBERT ZEMECKIS

Tonight’s program is a presentation of the complete film Back to the Future with a live performance of the film’s entire score, including music played by the orchestra during the end credits. Out of respect for the musicians and your fellow audience members, please remain seated until the conclusion of the credits.

PRODUCTION CREDITS

Back to the Future in Concert produced by Film Concerts Live!, a joint venture of IMG Artists, LLC and The Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency, Inc.

Producers: Steven A. Linder and Jamie Richardson

Director of Operations: Rob Stogsdill

Production Manager: Sophie Greaves

Production Assistant: Katherine Miron

Worldwide Representation: IMG Artists, LLC

Technical Director: Mike Runice

Music Composed by Alan Silvestri

Music Preparation: Jo Ann Kane Music Service

Film Preparation for Concert Performance: Kristopher Carter and Mako Sujishi

Technical Consultant: Laura Gibson

Sound Remixing for Concert Performance: Chace Audio by Deluxe

The score for Back to the Future has been adapted for live concert performance.

With special thanks to: Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale, Alan Silvestri, David Newman, Kristin Stark, Michael Silver, Patrick Koors, Tammy Olsen, Lawrence Liu, Thomas Schroder, Tanya Perra, Chris Herzberger, Noah Bergman, Jason Jackowski, Shayne Mifsud, Darice Murphy, Mark Graham and the musicians and staff of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.

Film projectors generously donated by MARCUS CORPORATION. This weekend’s media sponsor is ONMILWAUKEE.

The length of this concert is approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes with intermission.

Composer Biography

ALAN SILVESTRI

Composer Alan Silvestri has scored some of the most beloved and profitable films in Hollywood history, with over a hundred credits to date, earning him two Oscar and Golden Globe nominations, two Emmy awards, and three Grammy awards. While stylistically diverse, his scores feature unmistakable rhythmic melodies that continue to embody cinematic excitement and drama for generations of moviegoers.

Born in New York City and raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, Silvestri studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, eventually finding his way to Hollywood at the age of 22, where he composed the scores for several successful low-budget films including The Doberman Gang and its sequel The Amazing Dobermans. This led to his composing the energetic, action-driven music for the hit TV series CHiPs, which caught the ear of budding filmmaker Robert Zemeckis. Their first collaboration, the 1984 film Romancing the Stone, was a runaway hit, and its success formed the basis of a decades-long composer-director relationship that continues to this day. Their numerous collaborations include Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Back to the Future 1, 2, and 3, What Lies Beneath, Death Becomes Her, Contact, Cast Away, Beowulf, A Christmas Carol, and The Polar Express, from which Silvestri’s original song “Believe” garnered an Oscar nomination. But perhaps no film defines their creative partnership better than Zemeckis’ 1994 Best Picture winner Forrest Gump, for which Silvestri’s gift for beautifully melodic themes earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Original Score.

Silvestri’s other films feature original scores in a wide range of styles and genres, including the hard-hitting percussive scores of Predator, Judge Dredd, and James Cameron’s The Abyss, the thrilling effects-driven scores for The Mummy Returns and G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra, the ethnic rhythms of Soapdish and The Mexican, and the raucous fun of family films like Stuart Little 1 and 2, Disney’s Lilo and Stitch, and the Night at the Museum trilogy. Other credits include the romantic film noir The Bodyguard, edgy comedies like Mouse Hunt, and heartfelt romantic comedies like The Father of the Bride 1 and 2, The Parent Trap, and What Women Want Silvestri has also proven adept at evoking the Wild West in Young Guns 2 and The Quick and the Dead, providing thrilling macho muscle for Van Helsing and The A-Team, and creating a dynamic musical soundscape for Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One. Silvestri’s long-standing collaboration with Marvel Studios has helped to propel a number of their films to spectacular world-wide success, including Captain America: The First Avenger, The Avengers, The Avengers: Infinity War, and most recently The Avengers: Endgame, which broke all previous worldwide box office records to become the number one grossing film of all time.

In 2014, Silvestri won two Emmy awards for his music for Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, based on Carl Sagan’s original 1980 series and updated with the latest scientific discoveries, as well as spectacular visual effects and animation. Sagan’s widow, Ann Druyan, who co-wrote the original Cosmos series, served as an executive producer, writer, and director, alongside executive producer Seth MacFarlane.

IN CONCERT

BACK TO THE FUTURE

PRODUCTION CREDITS

Composer Biography

ALAN SILVESTRI

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