Lexington Symphony Presents 'Music from the Movies'

Lexington Symphony’s 2014–2015 20th-anniversary season continues on Saturday, February 14, 2015, with “Music from the Movies,” an inspirational journey exploring the important role music plays in setting the scene, engaging the senses, and telling a story via the medium of film. Featuring numerous Academy Award-winning and -nominated best original film scores in true surround-sound fashion, the concert will take place at 8 p.m. at Lexington High School Auditorium, 251 Waltham Street, Lexington, Massachusetts.

Music Director Jonathan McPhee and Lexington Symphony will perform a variety of familiar compositions including John Williams’s Jaws, Superman, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Henry Mancini’s The Pink Panther; Maurice Jarre’s Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago; John Barry’s 007; and Klaus Badelt’s Pirates of the Carribean. Special guest Brady Hearn — a graduate of Lexington High School who has composed music for both film and television — will join the Symphony to talk about, and demonstrate, how a film score is created.

Tickets, which are priced at $30/$40/$50 and $15 for students, can be purchased online at www.lexingtonsymphony.org, by telephone at 781-523-9009, or at the door at Lexington High School Auditorium.

Prior to the Music from the Movies concert, the Symphony is offering a free kids’ concert from 6:00-6:30 p.m. of Prokofiev’s childhood classic Peter and the Wolf arranged for woodwind quintet by Michael Weinstein.