Titanic Live - World Premiere
21 March, 2014
The biggest-selling orchestral of all time presented live for the very first time by Oscar and Grammy Award winning composer James Horner.
- Over 30 million copies sold, No.1 in Album Chart over 14 countries including UK and US
- Winner of Grammy, Oscar and Golden Globe Awards
- Further dates in World Cities to be announced shortly
** Tickets on sale Friday 21st March, 2014**
London, 21 March; Avex Classics International and the Royal Albert Hall today announce one of the major music events of 2015, the world premiere presentation of Titanic Live at the iconic London venue on 27 April 2015.
James Horner's epic score will be brought to life like never before, with the composer himself conducting a 90-piece orchestra, choir and Celtic musicians whilst the film is projected on a vast HD screen. Titanic Live promises to be the live cinematic event of the year, re-creating the uniquely familiar soundtrack which will forever be a part of cinematic history.
Horner has composed for over 100 motion pictures, frequently collaborating with directors such as James Cameron and Ron Howard. Other scores include Avatar (the only film to surpass Titanic in box office sales), Braveheart, Aliens, Apollo 13, Star Trek II and more recently, The Amazing Spiderman.
The 1997 blockbuster Titanic, written and produced by James Cameron, became one of the most prolific movies of all time, grossing over $2 billion at the box office and winning 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director and more importantly, Best Original Song and Dramatic Score.
Audiences worldwide echoed Hollywood's appreciation of Horner's musical score as the CD release became the best-selling orchestral soundtrack in history. Moreover, its lead single, My Heart Will Go On performed by Celine Dion was the biggest selling single of 1998, winning Record Of The Year at the 1999 Grammy ® Awards.
James Horner commented: "I am very flattered, and delighted to have been invited to perform the score of Titanic live with orchestra. Usually, putting the music into a film is a highly technical process that the audience never gets a chance to see. By performing the music live with the film, you, the audience, will experience the magic of seeing the live musicians, literally playing the music score as the film runs."
"There are so many wonderfully talented people that perform the music of film scores, so it is a great honour for me to have the opportunity to share the experience, the musicians’ performances, all the 'behind the scenes' magic, with an audience."
Maggie O'Herlihy, Head of Europe and the Americas, Avex Classics International commented: "We are thrilled to announce the world premiere of Titanic Live at the Royal Albert Hall. When Titanic’s epic score takes centre stage, audiences will be able to immerse themselves in the hauntingly beautiful sound-world James Horner crafted like never before."
Jasper Hope, Chief Operating Officer at the venue, said: "The Royal Albert Hall's unique connection to the Titanic continues with the world premiere of Titanic Live.
"It was on this stage that the Titanic Band Memorial Concert took place in 1912, held to commemorate the eight heroic musicians who played on as the doomed ocean liner went down.
"A century later, the Royal Albert Hall was the venue for the world premiere of Titanic 3D. On that unforgettable evening, James Horner took the baton to conduct a 20-minute suite from his score – the most popular orchestral soundtrack of all time – the emotion and romance of the music sending shivers down the spine of everyone in the auditorium.
"We are delighted that James will now return to conduct the world premiere performance of Titanic Live, with his incredible score performed live and in full for the first time to accompany a high definition screening of the blockbuster film."
Presented by the Royal Albert Hall and Avex Classics International, a branch of Japan’s leading entertainment business, the Avex Group, Titanic Live marks the start of a series of bespoke live events offering new and innovative ways to experience classical music.
Further worldwide dates for Titanic Live will also be announced shortly.
James Cameron on James Horner speaking at the EDIT Filmmakers festival in Frankfurt, 2011
In Titanic, I challenged you to do an emotionally powerful score without violinists, and with the use of haunting vocals and bittersweet Celtic pipes, you reinvented the romantic score. Avatar was a very different challenge — to capture the heart and spirit of an alien culture without alienated the audience. By combining the sweep of a classic orchestral score with indigenous instrumentation and vocals, you came up with a unique sound that created both the epic sweep of the film and also childlike sense of wonder of experiencing that fantastic world for the first time. … I look forward to our next collaboration and I can’t wait to hear what you come up with next.
Titanic Live – Royal Albert Hall London
Monday 27 April 2015
£20-65
Box Office: 0845 401 5005
www.royalalberthall.com
For press information on Titanic Live contact
Dan Deacon – Deacon Communications
020 3176 6606 / dd@deaconcommunications.com