Alexandria Symphony Orchestra
Alexandria Symphony Orchestra
Alexandria Symphony Orchestra
The Alexandria Film Festival and the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra will undertake a new partnership in 2020, for the first time producing a unique blend of orchestral music and original film.
The ASO and AFF will commission five new films to be screened “live to picture” with American orchestral pieces performed by the symphony at its Nov. 7 and 8 concerts, and the movies will be screened during the 14th annual film festival Nov. 12–15.
The filmmakers will be selected by Alexandria Film Festival leadership, in collaboration with Alexandria Symphony leadership. Each filmmaker selected will receive a $1,000 commission, performance credits in the event program and website, and will retain all rights to their work.
Interested filmmakers can find more information at AlexFilmFest.com/Homegrown.
The orchestral works to be presented are by five American composers, each played in tandem with a 3–5 minute film.
ASO music director James Ross (who envisioned this project) says, “Much of this music comes from the middle decades of the 20th century when American composers began to successfully depict our country’s unique flavor in sound. These pieces can be seen (or heard) as a kind of big metaphor for the tenderness and danger that our country and world presently faces.”
