GENT 2015: GREAT BRITISH FILM MUSIC (Fenton, Barry, Nyman, ...) | SILVESTRI & DOYLE (WSA)

Naturally the concert will include George Fenton’s scores for films by Ken Loach, a director with whom he established a long-standing collaboration. During his career Fenton also composed for Stephen Frears (‘Dangerous Liaisons’, ‘Mary Reilly’), Neil Jordan (‘The Company of Wolves’, ‘High Spirits’) and Richard Attenborough (‘Gandhi’, ‘Cry Freedom’) and will therefore also receive a Lifetime Achievement Award for his entire oeuvre. The work of Michael Nyman, including his mesmerizing music for Peter Greenaway’s films 'The Draughtsman’s Contract’ and ‘Drowning by Numbers’ will also be performed, as well as his hypnotic piano theme from Neil Jordan’s adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel ‘The End of the Affair’.

The Bard cannot be absent at a British film music concert so on that account Stephen Warbeck’s sublime music for ‘Shakespeare in Love’ as well as Patrick Doyle’s score for Kenneth Branagh’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing' will be two of the Shakespeare adaptations on the line up. As announced earlier, Patrick Doyle will also receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Soundtrack Awards Ceremony & Concert on Saturday the 24th of October.

Craig Armstrong will attend the premiere of the concert performance of his music for Thomas Vinterberg’s Thomas Hardy adaptation ‘Far from the Madding Crowd', starring national pride Matthias Schoenaerts. Another concert premiere will be a composition by Alex Heffes for 'The Program', the latest film by Stephen Frears on fallen athlete Lance Armstrong. (Heffes' presence at the festival is still to be confirmed).

In addition to these British contemporary film composers there will be music included from classical composers such as Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton and legendary British composers of the sixties and seventies: John Barry (‘The Ipcress File’ and ‘The Knack’), Richard Rodney Bennett (‘Murder on the Orient Express’), Ron Goodwin (‘Where Eagles Dare’) and John Dankworth (‘Modesty Blaise’).

Bregt wrote
SABAM AWARD FOR BEST YOUNG COMPOSER
The candidates were instructed to compose music for a scene of ‘The Third Man’ (1949) by Carol Reed,

Bregt wrote
PUBLIC CHOICE AWARD
At the 15th edition of the World Soundtrack Awards, the winner of the Public Choice Award for the Best Score will be announced. These are the 5 scores of the past year that were most voted for by the public.

- ‘A Little Chaos’ by Peter Gregson
- ‘Ex Machina’ by Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow
- ‘Far From Men’ by Warren Ellis & Nick Cave
- ‘The Maze Runner’ by John Paesano
- ‘Timbuktu’ by Amine Bouhafa

Thor wrote
Why don't you just head on over to one of these Ghent events, Martijn? Not that far for you, and it would be cool to see you.

Martijn wrote


Well, the program never really appealed to me before, to be honest.
Plus, Ghent has no tradition for fine chocolate, and what would be the point in visiting a Belgian city if it ain't got no chocolate? Now if they'd move the thing to Brugges...

Bregt wrote
Gent also has a port. I know you like port.

Bregt wrote
Well, in Belgium there's a bit more advertisement for the WSA since it is part of a local film festival. So I think there are a larger percentage of Belgian votes... Timbutku had a very good reception by critics here, and was shown in one of Gent's cinema's so I guess it is a bit more in the picture.

But that it could explain why it is in the final top 5, I have no idea...