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SEEN AND HEARD NEWS ITEM
The Berliner
Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle's Live Cinema Debut in London:
A live relay of the 2010/2011 season's opening concert, The Odeon, Covent
Garden, Friday 27th August at 5.45pm (BK)
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s opening concert of
the 2010/2011 season, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, will be beamed live via
satellite to the ODEON Covent Garden on Friday, August 27th at 5:45 pm. For
further information and tickets, please go to
www.odeon.co.uk/fanatic/odeon-plus/ or call 0871 244 1891. Other
participating UK cinemas outside of London include Haslemere Hall, a community cinema in Haslemere, Surrey. www.haslemerehall.co.uk Tel: 01428
642161.
Over 60 other cinemas across Europe will be part of this historic live
cinema event, courtesy of Rising Alternative, a leading international
distributor of special event entertainment into cinemas. Full cinema
listings can be found at: www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/cinema.
The concert will be performed at the orchestra’s home venue, the
Philharmonie in Berlin and will feature Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 in B flat
major and Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 in D major. Not only does this
concert with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle open the new
season, it also marks the start of an ambitious artistic project: the
performance of all of Gustav Mahler’s symphonies by the end of 2011. With
this series, the orchestra and its conductor pay tribute to two Mahler anniversaries: 7 July 2010 is the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth
and 18 May 2011 will be the centenary of his death.
Founded in 1882, the Berliner Philharmoniker is one of the world’s leading
orchestras, renowned for important innovations such as the education
project, Zukunft@Bphil, through which the orchestra addresses a broad
public – young people in particular. For this commitment, the Berliner
Philharmoniker and Simon Rattle were appointed international UNICEF
Ambassadors in November 2007. They are the first artistic ensemble to
receive this honour.
Sir Simon Rattle was born in Liverpool and studied at the Royal Academy of
Music in London. He assumed the post of Chief Conductor and Artistic
Director of the Berliner Philharmoniker in September 2002. Between 1980 and
1998, Rattle was Principal Conductor, Artistic Adviser and Music Director of
the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
Mahler’s symphonic œuvre is of particular significance for the relationship
between Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker. Not only was a Mahler
symphony – the Sixth – performed at Rattle’s Berlin debut in November 1987
but also at his inaugural concert as the orchestra’s Principal Conductor inSeptember 2002, when the Fifth was played.
For further details on the Berliner Philharmoniker opening concert, please
go to:
http://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/concerts/kalender/programme-details.
A trailer for this concert featuring a welcome message from Sir Simon Rattle
is available on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwGXDybpQUU
About the technology:
The production of this cinema event is made possible by the Berliner
Philharmoniker’s in-house high definition state-of-the-art recording and
studio technology, used for their Digital Concert Hall which is exclusively
supported by Deutsche Bank and has been broadcasting the Berliner
Philharmoniker’s current and archive concerts since 2009. The orchestra’s
Aug 27th opening concert will be shown in cinemas in high definition
quality, live via satellite systems and digital cinema projectors. Digital
cinema and satellite technology is providing cinema owners, distributors and
the entertainment industry at large with new programming opportunities – the
ability to show alternative content (non-movie entertainment). Cinemas are
becoming vibrant entertainment centres, as well as movie houses.
About Rising Alternative:
Rising Alternative, based in New York, is a leading distributor/agent of
special event entertainment (alternative content) for cinemas. Rising
Alternative acquires, distributes and markets world-class live and
pre-recorded cultural content, including opera, ballet and concerts to
cinemas worldwide. The upcoming slate of events includes highly anticipated
performances from La Scala/Milan, Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener
Philharmoniker/Vienna, the Salzburg Festival , the Gran Teatre del
Liceu/Barcelona, Teatro Real/Madrid, San Francisco Opera and the Munich
Opera Festival. The company was created by Giovanni Cozzi, a co-founder of
Emerging Pictures, the U.S. digital art house cinema network.
Bill Kenny