This week hosts Alexander Mickelthwate and James Manishen are getting into movie music as they preview next week's Pops concert Soundtracks Live. Plus Alexander gives us a peak into one of the artists coming in for the Winnipeg New Music Festival, the incomparable Meredith Monk. Tune in for an encore peroformance Wednesday night at midnight!
Action, adventure, sci-fi & fantasy – great Hollywood scores come to life at Soundtracks Live! Conductor Ryan Shore brings the best scores from recent movies to the WSO,
including Star Wars: The Force Awakens (John Williams), The Hateful Eight (Ennio Morricone), and Zootopia (Michael Giacchino).PLUS – world premiere concert performances on the Centennial Concert Hall stage of selections from X-Men: Apocalypse (John Ottman), The Magnificent Seven (James Horner & Simon Frangle), and Doctor Strange (Michael Giacchino)!
Guest conductor Ryan Shore is our guest this week on the show.
And we get to taste a piece from composer and singer Meredith Monk, one of the artists beng featured at this year's WNMF.
Tune in Sunday evening @ 5 PM.
And don't forget about our encore performances Monday evenings @ 8PM and Wednesday nights @ midnight.