Name: Brighton: Symphony of a City - Study Score - Score Only by Ed Hughes Full Orchestra Digital Sheet Music
Brand: UYMP
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Brighton: Symphony of a City - Study Score - Score Only
by Ed Hughes Full Orchestra - Digital Sheet Music

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Title Brighton: Symphony of a City - Study Score - Score Only

Artist Ed Hughes

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Ed Hughes

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 121

Arrangement Full Orchestra

Publisher UYMP

Product ID 1846050

Genre 21st Century

Performance Group Full Orchestra

Product Description

Commissioned by Brighton Festival 2016.

Film director: Lizzie Thynne

Editor: Phil Reynolds

Composer: Ed Hughes

Brighton: Symphony of a City was conceived in collaboration with the film maker Lizzie Thynne. The project was inspired by the city symphony films of the 1920s and 1930s. Through a silent film with live music the aim was a visual and musical portrait of the city of Brighton. It was commissioned for the 50th anniversary of the Brighton Festival and premiered in the Brighton Dome with the Orchestra of Sound and Light, conducted by the composer, on 11 May 2016. The film creates a dynamic portrait of Brighton today, and in its dawn to dusk and then night approach consciously references Walter Ruttmanns great rhythmic and poetic film Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927). The music conveys colour and contrasts, echoing those of the modern urban environment, but constantly aware of seascape. As writer and musicologist Mervyn Cooke observes, gently pulsating cross rhythms and subtle dislocations of the metre, combined with long-breathed dynamic ebbs and flows and vividly contrasting orchestral colours, wonderfully capture not only the broad sweep of the city itself, but also (as with Vigos Nice) the alluring expanse of the open sea beyond its shore.

Unlike Ruttmanns film, Thynne also draws on archival silent moving images from Screen Archive South East, creating unexpected, informative and poignant juxtapositions. Towards the close of the film the images employ montage and the music and picture seem to fuse into a state of symphony as their separate languages merge.

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