Reel Classics - The Golden Age of Cinema - Queeensland Symphony Orchestra

Take a journey Somewhere Over the Rainbow to the Golden Age of Cinema at the QPAC Concert Hall this October for Reel Classics. Join Queensland Symphony Orchestra along with conductor and host Vanessa Scammell for a trip back to the cinema classics of the 1930s through to the 1980s.

Enjoy a selection of sepia-toned masterpieces with legendary music from films and experience the powerful impact these iconic film scores had on cinema, defining the industry and becoming synonymous with entire film and television genres.

Join the orchestra for a nostalgic ride through these triumphs of early Hollywood with classic scores including:

Bernard Herrmann – A Short Suite for String Orchestra from Psycho
Harold Arlen – Somewhere Over the Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz
Henri Mancini – Theme from The Pink Panther
Johann Strauss Jr. – On the Beautiful Blue Danube from 2001: A Space Odyssey
John Barry – James Bond’s Goldfinger
John Barry - The Lions at Play from Born Free
Elmer Bernstein – Suite from The Magnificent Seven
Pietro Mascagni – Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana (from Raging Bull)
Leonard Bernstein – Three Dance Episodes from On the Town
Richard Rogers - The Carousel Waltz (overture) from Carousel
Charles Gounod - Funeral March of a Marionette from Alfred Hitchcock Presents