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...Today they had a special treat: the world premiere of Star Wars Episode III: Return of the Sith. To one side of the steps was perched a full orchestra in evening dress. As writer-director George Lucas and many of his stars came into view, the orchestra struck up the first martial notes of John Williams' theme. "Georges Lu-cah!" a French voice fanfared over the loud-speaker system, and the crowd cheered. The spectacle was as majestic and fun as the celebration of the Jedi's triumph over the Death Star in the final scene of the first Star...
...Detroit Symphony Orchestra performs Japanese composer Nobuo Uematsu's score for the video game Final Fantasy
...love is surely what the world of contemporary music feels for Liza (pronounced Lee-za), 38. Barely out of the VCA, Lim was approached by Germany's Radio Bremen to create a new work for soprano and orchestra, and the febrile Voodoo Child (1989) was born. A flood of commissions followed, climaxing last year with her most ambitious work, Ecstatic Architecture, for the Los Angeles Philharmonic's inaugural season at the new Walt Disney Concert Hall. Inspired by Frank Gehry's gravity-defying architecture, the piece saw Lim's musical standing soar. In November, the Festival D'Automne in Paris...
...meantime, Australia has reclaimed its "voodoo child." At the beginning of her three-year residency with the Sydney Symphony, the composer this week premieres her latest work for the orchestra. Immer Fliessender (Ever Flowing) is written as an eight-minute prelude to Mahler's Ninth. In architectural terms, that's a little like adding a pyramid to the Louvre. For the piece, Lim extrapolates an Arabic inflection she detects in Mahler's expansive final symphony - "it's like the colors of that fabulous world," she says, "but a different twist - looking at it sideways." For her next SSO work...
...Machine for Contacting the Dead was performed as part of a Paris museum show centering on the 2,500-year-old tomb of the Chinese Marquis Yi of Zeng. Among the objects excavated at his tomb in central Hubei province were 65 bronze bells as well as a courtly orchestra of drums, mouth organs and flutes. But Lim was moved most of all by the story of the 21 concubines buried alive with the marquis, their harps muted. Her poignant piece, pregnant with silence, evokes their wheezing, dying breaths...