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HOWE RECORDS TO RELEASE HUGO SCORE
NOVEMBER 22, 2011
Music By Academy Award® Winner Howard Shore
Featuring Zaz on the Original Song “Coeur Volant”
(November 15, 2011—New York, NY) Howe Records is pleased to announce
the release of the Hugo – Original Score, available in stores and
digitally on November 22, 2011. Hugo marks the sixth collaboration
between director Martin Scorsese and composer Howard Shore. Like
Scorsese’s film, Shore’s score to Hugo is a love letter both to the
French culture in the 1930s and to the groundbreaking early days of
cinema.
Hugo tells the story of Hugo Cabret, a boy who lives behind the walls
of a Parisian train station. Shore’s music is composed for two
ensembles – one nested within the other – to create a sense of
layering in the musical palette. Inside a full symphony orchestra
resides a smaller ensemble, a sort of nimble French dance band that
includes the ondes Martenot, musette, cimbalom, tack piano, gypsy
guitar, upright bass, a 1930s trap-kit, and alto saxophone. “I wanted
to match the depth of the sound to the depth of the image,” says
Shore.
The Hugo score is based around a family of primary musical themes.
“The themes are used for clarity of storytelling and they develop over
the course of the film,” says the composer. The score’s central theme
is a Parisian waltz that develops into the song “Coeur Volant.” Howard
Shore invited renowned French singer Zaz to collaborate with Elizabeth
Cotnoir and him on the song, which captures the lyrical essence of the
world of Hugo.
The theme for Hugo’s quest begins the score with clocklike precision
in piano octaves. A figure for strings, celesta, and ondes Martenot
rotates downward through minor modes to depict the mysterious
automaton that Hugo’s father left behind. The Station Inspector is
portrayed by a marche comique featuring bassoon and striding snare
drum, while the cinematic innovations of Georges Méliès – “Papa
Georges” to Hugo and Isabelle – receive Shore’s most theatrical
flourishes, which recreate the spirited energy of live theater
orchestras and the very first film scores.
Academy Award®-winning composer Howard Shore is among today’s most
respected, honored, and active composers and conductors. His work with
Peter Jackson on The Lord of the Rings trilogy stands as his most
towering achievement to date, earning him three Oscars® and four
Grammy® awards. Since 2003 Shore’s music from the beloved trilogy has
been constantly performed in concert halls around the world. Howe
Records recently released a live recording of The Lord of the Rings
Symphony: Six Movements for Orchestra and Chorus, which continues to
appear on Billboard Magazine’s classical charts.
As one of the original creators of Saturday Night Live, Shore served
as the show’s music director from 1975 to 1980. At the same time, he
began collaborating with David Cronenberg, and has since scored 13 of
the director’s films, including The Fly, Dead Ringers, Crash, Naked
Lunch, Eastern Promises, and 2011’s A Dangerous Method. Shore
continues to distinguish himself with a wide range of projects, from
Martin Scorsese’s The Departed, The Aviator, and Gangs of New York, to
Ed Wood, The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, and Mrs. Doubtfire.
He is currently working on his second opera, and is returning to
Middle-earth with J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit.
Through the years, Academy Award® winner Martin Scorsese has
transported us to extraordinary places. This Holiday season he will
take audiences to a magical time and place as only he can, in his
first ever 3D film, based on Brian Selznick’s award winning and
imaginative New York Times bestseller, The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
Hugo is the astonishing adventure of a wily and resourceful boy whose
quest to unlock a secret left to him by his father will transform Hugo
and all those around him, and reveal a safe and loving place he can
call home. The film stars Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa
Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer,
Christopher Lee, Helen McCrory, Michael Stuhlbarg, Frances de la Tour,
Richard Griffiths, with Jude Law.
Paramount Pictures will present Hugo in theaters on November 23, 2011.
The Hugo – Original Score from Howe Records will be available in
stores and digitally on November 22, 2011.
###
For more information: cinemed...@yahoo.com or on Twitter
@cinemediapromo
About HUGO
HUGO, presented by Paramount Pictures and GK Films, is a GK Films /
Infinitum Nihil Production and a Martin Scorsese Picture, produced by
Graham King, Tim Headington, Martin Scorsese and Johnny Depp. It is
directed by Martin Scorsese from a screenplay by John Logan based on
the book entitled The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. The
film stars Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield, Chloë
Grace Moretz, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer, Christopher Lee, Helen
McCrory, Michael Stuhlbarg, Frances de la Tour, Richard Griffiths,
with Jude Law.
NOVEMBER 22, 2011
Music By Academy Award® Winner Howard Shore
Featuring Zaz on the Original Song “Coeur Volant”
(November 15, 2011—New York, NY) Howe Records is pleased to announce
the release of the Hugo – Original Score, available in stores and
digitally on November 22, 2011. Hugo marks the sixth collaboration
between director Martin Scorsese and composer Howard Shore. Like
Scorsese’s film, Shore’s score to Hugo is a love letter both to the
French culture in the 1930s and to the groundbreaking early days of
cinema.
Hugo tells the story of Hugo Cabret, a boy who lives behind the walls
of a Parisian train station. Shore’s music is composed for two
ensembles – one nested within the other – to create a sense of
layering in the musical palette. Inside a full symphony orchestra
resides a smaller ensemble, a sort of nimble French dance band that
includes the ondes Martenot, musette, cimbalom, tack piano, gypsy
guitar, upright bass, a 1930s trap-kit, and alto saxophone. “I wanted
to match the depth of the sound to the depth of the image,” says
Shore.
The Hugo score is based around a family of primary musical themes.
“The themes are used for clarity of storytelling and they develop over
the course of the film,” says the composer. The score’s central theme
is a Parisian waltz that develops into the song “Coeur Volant.” Howard
Shore invited renowned French singer Zaz to collaborate with Elizabeth
Cotnoir and him on the song, which captures the lyrical essence of the
world of Hugo.
The theme for Hugo’s quest begins the score with clocklike precision
in piano octaves. A figure for strings, celesta, and ondes Martenot
rotates downward through minor modes to depict the mysterious
automaton that Hugo’s father left behind. The Station Inspector is
portrayed by a marche comique featuring bassoon and striding snare
drum, while the cinematic innovations of Georges Méliès – “Papa
Georges” to Hugo and Isabelle – receive Shore’s most theatrical
flourishes, which recreate the spirited energy of live theater
orchestras and the very first film scores.
Academy Award®-winning composer Howard Shore is among today’s most
respected, honored, and active composers and conductors. His work with
Peter Jackson on The Lord of the Rings trilogy stands as his most
towering achievement to date, earning him three Oscars® and four
Grammy® awards. Since 2003 Shore’s music from the beloved trilogy has
been constantly performed in concert halls around the world. Howe
Records recently released a live recording of The Lord of the Rings
Symphony: Six Movements for Orchestra and Chorus, which continues to
appear on Billboard Magazine’s classical charts.
As one of the original creators of Saturday Night Live, Shore served
as the show’s music director from 1975 to 1980. At the same time, he
began collaborating with David Cronenberg, and has since scored 13 of
the director’s films, including The Fly, Dead Ringers, Crash, Naked
Lunch, Eastern Promises, and 2011’s A Dangerous Method. Shore
continues to distinguish himself with a wide range of projects, from
Martin Scorsese’s The Departed, The Aviator, and Gangs of New York, to
Ed Wood, The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, and Mrs. Doubtfire.
He is currently working on his second opera, and is returning to
Middle-earth with J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit.
Through the years, Academy Award® winner Martin Scorsese has
transported us to extraordinary places. This Holiday season he will
take audiences to a magical time and place as only he can, in his
first ever 3D film, based on Brian Selznick’s award winning and
imaginative New York Times bestseller, The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
Hugo is the astonishing adventure of a wily and resourceful boy whose
quest to unlock a secret left to him by his father will transform Hugo
and all those around him, and reveal a safe and loving place he can
call home. The film stars Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa
Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer,
Christopher Lee, Helen McCrory, Michael Stuhlbarg, Frances de la Tour,
Richard Griffiths, with Jude Law.
Paramount Pictures will present Hugo in theaters on November 23, 2011.
The Hugo – Original Score from Howe Records will be available in
stores and digitally on November 22, 2011.
###
For more information: cinemed...@yahoo.com or on Twitter
@cinemediapromo
About HUGO
HUGO, presented by Paramount Pictures and GK Films, is a GK Films /
Infinitum Nihil Production and a Martin Scorsese Picture, produced by
Graham King, Tim Headington, Martin Scorsese and Johnny Depp. It is
directed by Martin Scorsese from a screenplay by John Logan based on
the book entitled The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. The
film stars Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield, Chloë
Grace Moretz, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer, Christopher Lee, Helen
McCrory, Michael Stuhlbarg, Frances de la Tour, Richard Griffiths,
with Jude Law.
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