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PREVIEW: E.T. at Tanglewood in Boston Pops live-to-picture show

If you’ve never seen a symphony orchestra perform a movie score in sync with a moving picture, then one of life’s greatest thrills awaits you.

REVIEW: Something Wonderful! Celebrating the songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein

Laura Griffith doesn’t sound like Julie Andrews. She sounds like a person singing this material exactly as it was meant to be sung: with perfect tone, perfect diction, perfect intonation, perfect phrasing, perfect everything.

MUSIC: ‘Jaws’ in Concert at Tanglewood

“Conducting to a film that has already been made is a really big challenge. It’s really one of the toughest things that I’ve had to do as a conductor.” --- Keith Lockhart, musical director of the Boston Pops

AT TANGLEWOOD: Flawless, Boston Pops plays ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ live to picture

Performing an orchestral film score live to picture is complicated and difficult, even for people with decades of conducting experience.

REVIEW: Tanglewood Film Night without John Williams?

Watching a large orchestra play a great movie score “live to picture” is one of the most extraordinary spectacles a music fan can hope to witness.
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