“… one of the few film scores in recent years that can honestly own the sobriquet of landmark.”
(Newsday)
Jonny Greenwood’s acclaimed score to Paul Thomas Anderson’s film There Will Be Blood is to be seen and heard in a new light, courtesy of live orchestral screenings set to take place in London and New York later this year.
These unique performances will feature big-screen presentations of the film, with the dialogue left in, but all music cues (by Greenwood, Arvo Pärt and Brahms) provided by a live orchestra of over 50 musicians, within which Greenwood himself will perform on Ondes martenot.
The first screenings take place in The Roundhouse, London, where Hugh Brunt will conduct the London Contemporary Orchestra in performances on 6 and 7 August, part of the Summer Sessions at the iconic London venue. The LCO have a long-standing association with Greenwood, having performed his Doghouse at Reverb in 2012, and recording the soundtrack to The Master, another Anderson film scored to great acclaim by Greenwood.
The US performances of There Will Be Blood take place just over a month later (19 and 20 September), as part of the Wordless Music Series. The venue is the historic Union Palace Theatre, the second largest theatre in New York City, and which will see the film projected onto no less than a 50-foot movie screen. Ryan McAdams will conduct the Wordless Music Orchestra, with Greenwood once again playing the Ondes martenot. The Wordless Music Orchestra are no strangers to Greenwood’s music either. They gave the US premieres of his compositions, Popcorn Superhet Receiver and Doghouse in 2008 and 2011 respectively.
For enquiries about mounting performances of this live film version, please contact musicfornow@fabermusic.com