3 minute read
GHOSTBUSTERS IN CONCERT HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR
Friday 25 October 2019 / 7:30PM Saturday 26 October 2019 / 2PM Specials
Presented in partnership with Calgary International Film Festival
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PROGRAMME
John Jesensky, conductor
Elmer Bernstein Ghostbusters (1984) Film with Live Orchestra Performance includes a 20-minute intermission.
AN IVAN REITMAN FILM MUSIC BY ELMER BERNSTEIN
A SCHIRMER THEATRICAL PRODUCTION COLUMBIA PICTURES Presents
An IVAN REITMAN Film A BLACK RHINO/BERNIE BRILLSTEIN Production Starring BILL MURRAY + DAN AYKROYD + SIGOURNEY WEAVER Also Starring HAROLD RAMIS + RICK MORANIS Music by ELMER BERNSTEIN Executive Producer BERNIE BRILLSTEIN Written by DAN AYKROYD + HAROLD RAMIS Produced and Directed by IVAN REITMAN GHOSTBUSTERS 1984 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All rights reserved.
5 THINGS ABOUT GHOSTBUSTERS
1. Ghostbusters hit movie theatres 35 years ago.
It became the highest grossing comedy of all time (until Home Alone in 1990) and earned two Oscar nominations, including
Best Original Song.
2. The score was composed by Elmer Bernstein, who brought in a musician from
England to play the ondes
Martenot — the keyboard equivalent of a theremin — that created the music’s
‘eerie’ effect.
3. Actor Bill Murray wasn’t the first choice for his role, and at one point, the film’s working title was
‘Ghostsmashers.’ The title changed and Murray, who ad-libbed most of his lines, got the part.
4. The American Film Institute ranked Ghostbusters
No. 28 on its ‘100 Years... 100 Laughs’ list — it spawned TV shows, video games, and a 2016 remake with an all-female cast. A new Ghostbusters movie, shot in Calgary this summer with members of the original cast, will be released in 2020.
5. The Ghostbusters hotline was real! The promotional trailer featured a working 1-800 number featuring a pre-recorded message saying the Ghostbusters were too busy catching ghosts to answer the phone.
JOHN ROSS JESENSKY
Conductor
Composer and conductor John Ross Jesensky received a bachelor of music in composition from the Hartt School of Music, then began to focus his skills on the art of film scoring, studying with renowned film orchestrator Sonny Kompanek as well as prolific film composer Ira Newborn. After graduating from the Scoring for Film and Multimedia program at New York University with a masters of music degree, Jesensky was awarded the Elmer Bernstein Award for Film Composition. He also was the winner of the Skirball Film Scoring Competition with his score to Michael Daugherty’s short Season’s Greetings, which was performed live in a concert by the NYU Orchestra. Jesensky is currently touring the globe, conducting premiere orchestras in performance for CineConcerts, and AVEX Classics — bringing fully restored and showstopping film scores to audiences worldwide. He is also a freelance film composer, and several of his short scores have made appearances and won awards at events such as the Cannes Film Festival, Phoenix Film Festival, Bare Bones Film Festival, La Gona Film Festival, L.A. Film Festival, and others.
Sunday, October 20, 2019 at 3:00pm
BELLA CONCERT HALL, MOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY
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