BarcelonaFamily atmosphere at L’Auditori this Friday, in keeping with the Christmas spirit of the dates and the Christmas Concert organized by the ARA with the support of Tram, Barcelona’s tramway. And even more familiar for the program proposed by the Franz Schubert Philharmonic: Disney’s Millors soundtracks. The selection focused on the music of films that were released from 1989 onwards, especially that of two schools. On the one hand, that of Alan Menken, the composer who accompanied the rebirth of Disney with the soundtracks of the little mermaid, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast i Pocahontasamong others. Menkel has won eight Oscars with compositions connected to romantic symphony and with a good nose for pop melodies. The other school represented at the concert was that of the couple formed by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, responsible for the soundtrack of Frozen and songs like remember meof the film Coco.
Menken and the Lopezes have capitalized on a large part of the repertoire, which the Tarragona orchestra has performed under the baton of Marc Timón, an expert in the musical cinematographic universe who has taken advantage of the concert to premiere a piece of his own, Mickeymousingdedicated to “composers of music for cartoons”. Symphonic and vocal night, in Catalan, Spanish and English with the participation of four singers: Nerea Rodríguez, who has explained that her middle name is Ariel, as the little mermaid (the parents did not dare to put it first because of the possible confusion with the brand of detergent); Judith Tobella, who has shone in one of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s songs for Vaiana; Manu Pilas, who has very successfully played the card of sympathy, and Germán de la Riva, baritone of the Chamber Choir of the Palau de la Música, a record that has stood out in the themes of Beauty and the Beast.
In the concert there have been other milestones of Can Disney, such as Elton John’s songs for the lion kingwith an effective duo of Pilas and De la Riva. And the most exuberant deployment of the orchestra has come when it has recovered the symphonic poem The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (1897), by Paul Dukas, which Disney will serve Fantasia (1940), that prodigy of music and animation: Timón made all the musicians salute to receive a more than deserved ovation.
“We are having a brutally good time”, said Timón towards the end, right after the emotional catharsis of the Let it go of Frozen in front of more than 1,500 spectators who followed the concert with respect and showing enthusiasm at the end of each piece and especially in the encore, in which Timón, an admirer of John Williams, announced that they would do one of Star warsa relative departure from the script given that Disney also owns the galactic saga.
Source: www.ara.cat
