Imagine a 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater, made from thousands of stones (by slaves no doubt,) that was discovered only in 1933 buried under an apartment building perched on the highest hill overlooking Lyon. As they dug, they found two magnificent amphitheaters, the larger holding 4500 people and the smaller 1500. Imagine stone pillars the size of a refrigerator, strewn around the grounds like discarded cars, all with intricate Latin text carvings on them, which looked brand new, literally hundreds of them.
This was the setting for my concert in Lyon last Friday with the Lyon National Orchestra at the Les Nuits de Fourviere festival. We begin our concert of Hitchcock/Herrmann traditionally with recordings of birds from The Birds. This quickly became redundant as the swallow's feeding time coincided with twilight and our concert and they put on a wonderful show just before we began.
It is difficult to put into words how wonderful being in such a spot, on a perfect French summer evening is. And then to step out on stage and conduct 2 and a half hours of some of the greatest music ever written for film was something I will never forget. The orchestra was tremendous, playing passionately and with great attention to detail. Greg Cohen and the jazz quintet were fantastic, providing new and exciting interpretations and colors. Many thanks to all at Les Nuits de Fourviere for being so gracious and to the orchestra for such fantastic playing.
Just before the last piece, Taxi Driver, an epitaph is shown on screen with Herrmann's death date. As we began Taxi Driver I wondered how he would react if he could, to seeing two thousand people sitting in an ancient place in the south of France, on a spectacular evening, more than 30 years after his death, reveling in his beautiful music.
And then this last moment, which cemented for me, what a rare evening it was. The concert began at 9:30 and ended at midnight. After that they showed the movie Vertigo! I had gone to the after-party in a gorgeous villa that used to be a convent, next door. When returning to gather my things, I walked through the moonlit garden around the ancient pillars, hearing first a whisper and then the full strains of the passionate music from the Scene D'Amour sequence from Vertigo, soaring through this beautiful hillside. I peeked into the amphitheater, and a full 800 people had stayed past the concert to nearly 2 am to see Vertigo! No more guessing, I KNOW Herrmann would have loved this.
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