{"id":7580,"date":"2022-01-21T11:56:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T10:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filmsymphony.es\/?p=7580"},"modified":"2022-02-21T09:22:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T08:22:38","slug":"a-christmas-carol-alan-silvestri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmsymphony.es\/en\/a-christmas-carol-alan-silvestri\/","title":{"rendered":"'A Christmas Carol', the carol composed by Alan Silvestri and performed by the FSO"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the celebration of the F\u00e9nix tour, the Film Symphony Orchestra recorded the legendary carol 'A Christmas Carol', composed by Alan Silvestri. The New Yorker is one of the most renowned film music composers, especially for his works on 'Forrest Gump' (1994), the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy (1985, 1989 and 1990) and several titles for 'The Avengers'. The creative couple that he formed in 1984 with Robert Zemeckis, and which continues to this day, is considered, along with that of Williams and Spielberg, the most stable relationship between musician and director in the history of cinema.<\/p>\n

23 films between cinema and television allow us to highlight the success of this combination that began <\/strong>with 'Behind the Heart<\/strong>n Verde' (1984) and has reached '<\/strong>The Witches'<\/strong>, a film based on Roald Dahl's 1983 classic that we were able to see in theaters on October 30, 2021. Of the 32 titles that Zemeckis has directed, 23 feature Silvestri's performance, a figure that shows the good health of this collaboration.<\/p>\n

Who is Alan Silvestri?<\/h2>\n

Born in New York, March 26, 1950, Alan Anthony Silvestri is a famous film music composer<\/strong>, raised in Teanech, New Jersey, as part of a family of Italian descent. His grandparents, originally from Piedmont, took care of him in his childhood, and although his family was not linked in any way to music, his interest in this branch of art developed from a young age.<\/p>\n

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He began with drums and percussion instruments, later expanding his range to wind instruments, such as the bassoon, clarinet and saxophone. Eventually, he became a jazz guitarist. He was part of his high school orchestra playing, precisely, wind instruments and guitar.<\/p>\n

In 1965 he entered the prestigious Berklee College of Music to take jazz classes.<\/strong>, but two years later he ended up in Las Vegas to tour as guitarist and arranger for the R&B band Cochran and the CC Riders.<\/p>\n

Alan Silvestri's musical style<\/h3>\n

His training in percussion and his heterogeneous skill as an instrumentalist have forged his musical style, with a combination of 'modern' instruments, such as the guitar, drums or piano, mixed with great orchestrations. In addition, he has also written magnificent songs that have become part of some of his scores. He has always been fond of melodic rhythms, sometimes with a certain Latin flavor and other times jazzy.<\/p>\n

Alan Silvestri's works as a composer<\/h3>\n

Shortly after 1965, he would cross paths with Bradford Craig, who was a lyricist for Quincy Jones, and ask him to help him orchestrate the music for a film he was working on, The Doberman Gang<\/em> (Byron Chudnow, 1972). This would be Silvestri's debut in film music, which he would repeat in one of his sequels, The Amazing Dobermans <\/em>(1976).<\/p>\n

Back in 1987, he still had to demonstrate his talent in cache productions unrelated to his participation in the successful saga Return to the future<\/em>.<\/p>\n