orchestrating a feature

[davewalton]

Jan 7, 2009, 1:21pm, crystallions wrote:Update on Pendragon...The symphony in Tulsa will perform my music Feb 13th and 14th at 8PM!!!!!!!!!!!! I just sent the score to the conductor. I am Very excited!!! He told me a couple of weeks before Christmas that he wanted to perform the music that I wrote for the original Pendragon trailer (one year ago) with the orchestra at their film music concert so I have been working on the score over the holidays. I wrote the music for midi thinking that it would never be performed live so I had quite a bit of work to do to clean up the score and make it playable. I want to give special thanks to Steve Barden who looked over the score and gave me some really good advice as I worked on this. Thank you Steve!!! I don't know at this point if the concert will be recorded but I hope so. If it is I will post it on my web site for you to listen to as soon as I have it.I have received word from the producer of Pendragon that I may post music (even though I will not be posting the drafts as I originally had hoped in order to show the differences between the first draft from the composer versus the first midi orchestration draft versus the finished mix of midi and live instruments). I have gone ahead and posted "Mourning" on my myspace page. During the first part of the music someone is found murdered and when the solo vocals enter is the funeral. I am going to post more music + a video clip or two on my web site next week. I will let you know when it is done.The film festival where the film is nominated for Best Picture is held this weekend so I will let you know how it went as soon as I know. That's all for now. Hey Lydia,WOW! I wouldn't let that slip by if that were me... I'd find a way to make sure that recording arrangements were in place. Regardless of that and to further the cause of forum unity, we may have to send Aub as a forum representative to attend on behalf of all of us. Congratulations!Dave

[crystallions]

Jan 7, 2009, 1:29pm, rld wrote:Excellent! Jan 7, 2009, 1:37pm, mazz wrote:Very cool, Lydia!!You're living the dream, having your music played by an orchestra is an incredible accomplishment!You deserve it! Way to go!!MazzThank you Mazz! I truly am living the dream. This is amazing and I don't think it will truly sink in until it is over... Jan 7, 2009, 1:53pm, stevebarden wrote:You're welcome, Lydia. Not everybody gets the chance to have their midi tracks played by a live orchestra. I'm excited for you!Keep us posted.SteveI will keep you all posted. Once again - Thank you! Jan 7, 2009, 1:59pm, hummingbird wrote:WOW, that's FABULOUS!!! A dream come true, for sure Thank you for being excited with me! It truly is a dream come true!Jan 7, 2009, 2:30pm, davewalton wrote:Hey Lydia,WOW! I wouldn't let that slip by if that were me... I'd find a way to make sure that recording arrangements were in place. Regardless of that and to further the cause of forum unity, we may have to send Aub as a forum representative to attend on behalf of all of us. Congratulations!DaveYou are right Dave... I should really do all I can to make sure it is recorded. I think I will regret it greatly in the future if I don't.Oh - seriously - if anyone from the forum wants to come I will see if I can get free tickets Thank you!

[mazz]

At least get a little Micro Track or something similar and record a bootleg from your seat!!

[crystallions]

Jan 7, 2009, 6:44pm, mazz wrote:At least get a little Micro Track or something similar and record a bootleg from your seat!!Well... I am subbing with the orchestra for those concerts so it would be very heavy on the viola in the mix... I am not sure if I am happy or not that I am playing but I said yes to doing it before it was decided that my music would be performed. It would be cool to just sit in the audience and enjoy it. At the same time I love experiencing music from the inside so to speak where all the other parts surround me as we play - and I never thought I would experience something I wrote that way - so it may be a quite amazing experience. We will see...I just may ask Nathan to record a bootleg from his seat though. He has a Zoom which does a pretty good job with stuff like that (besides that it may be so big that it is noticed...)Hmmm...If they don't want to record the concert they may let me record a rehearsal. I'll ask.

[rfrey]

Great post Lydia! Thanks so much for sharing the experience. You have done a great job of giving some insight to what goes on in a scoring project like this and thanks to everyone else who has chimed in such great insightful questions. This has been great to read about. Congrats on the nomination. Good luck!Rich

[allends]

Jan 7, 2009, 1:21pm, crystallions wrote:The film festival where the film is nominated for Best Picture is held this weekend so I will let you know how it went as soon as I know. I'm looking forward to some wonderful news! Allen

[mewman]

HI LydiaI've really enjoyed reading this thread. Very informative. It's so great to see the progression since it was started. Best of luck. I'll look for the film when it's released.Mewman

[djbobm]

Hi Lydia!This is fantastic! You are doing great. Good luck.Bob

[crystallions]

Jan 8, 2009, 9:37pm, rfrey wrote:Great post Lydia! Thanks so much for sharing the experience. You have done a great job of giving some insight to what goes on in a scoring project like this and thanks to everyone else who has chimed in such great insightful questions. This has been great to read about. Congrats on the nomination. Good luck!RichThank you Rich! I am learning so much from everybody else here on the forum that I figured I should share the knowledge I have as well. They announce the winner tonight... I hope, I hope, I hope... Jan 9, 2009, 6:06am, allends wrote:Jan 7, 2009, 1:21pm, crystallions wrote:The film festival where the film is nominated for Best Picture is held this weekend so I will let you know how it went as soon as I know. I'm looking forward to some wonderful news! AllenThank you Allen! I will post the result as soon as I know it (should be latest at 10:30PM) Nathan is at the film festival so he will call me as soon as he knows. Jan 9, 2009, 1:21pm, mewman wrote:HI LydiaI've really enjoyed reading this thread. Very informative. It's so great to see the progression since it was started. Best of luck. I'll look for the film when it's released.MewmanThank you Mewman! Right now the only way to watch the film (besides catching it at a film festival) is to buy it from the Burns Family Studios.They have been approached by a company who is interested in getting the film into the video rental stores as well as a limited release in the theaters. That would be awesome!!!!!!! See my name scroll by on the big screen... Jan 10, 2009, 7:05am, djbobm wrote:Hi Lydia!This is fantastic! You are doing great. Good luck.BobThank you Bob!

[jonathanm]

Lydia,Thanks so much for sharing this story! It gives me hope that I might actually be able to make a living in music here in Oklahoma (I'm in OKC).My wife and I are often in Tulsa. If you get a chance at a few extra tickets, we'd love to hear the performance.Congratulations on this new project, and best of luck tonight!Jonathan