If You Go* What: “The Matrix Live,” featuring composer Don Davis conducting the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera* When: 8 p.m. Saturday, March 2* Where: The Tivoli Theatre, 709 Broad St.* Admission: $19-$49* Phone: 267-8583SIGN UPThe Chattanooga Symphony & Opera is asking people to register for the Southeast Film Music Symposium, set for March 1-3, by today.Space is limited for the event’s first year, which includes presentations by professionals in the film music industry, a movie screening, concert rehearsals and performances that showcase film composing.Chattanooga native George S. Clinton, whose credits include film scores for the “Austin Powers,” “Mortal Kombat” and “The Santa Clause” franchises, is the artistic advisor for the symposium. Other guests include Paul Mariano, Kurt Norton, Peter Golub, Edmund Stone, Doreen Ringer Ross, Don Davis and Robert Bernhardt.Admission is $150, which grants entry into the opening reception, screening of the documentary “These Amazing Shadows,” seminars and presentations, Saturday lunch, admission to “Hooray for Hollywood” and “The Matrix Live” rehearsals and concerts.A student rate of $50 is available for Saturday’s symposium events through dress rehearsal. Individual tickets to “The Matrix Live” and “Hooray for Hollywood” also are available.To view a downloadable brochure, visit www.southeastfilmmusic.org, or call the CSO box office at 423-267-8583.FILM SCORESSome of Don Davis’ film-scoring credits include:• “House on Haunted Hill” (1999)• “Jurassic Park III” (2001)• “Antitrust” (2001)• “Valentine” (2001)• “The Unsaid” (2001)• “Behind Enemy Lines” (2001)• “Long Time Dead” (2002)• “Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever” (2002)• “The Matrix Reloaded” (2003)• “The Matrix Revolutions” (2003)• “The Animatrix” (2003)• “The Marine” (2006)• “The Good Life” (2007)
Writing a score for a movie is hard enough; performing it live while that movie is onscreen above you is some serious heavy lifting.
But in March, with musical muscles flexed, composer Don Davis will be standing, baton in hand, in front of the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera as it performs his score to science-fiction blockbuster “The Matrix” while the movie plays on the screen of the Tivoli Theatre.
“I’ve worked out the kinks and I know where the booby traps are having done it,” he says. “But it’s really quite different from recording a score for a film because (when recording), if you make a mistake, you stop and record it over.”
No such do-overs when the music is live.