{"id":15716,"date":"2014-06-05T23:30:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T22:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=15716"},"modified":"2014-06-06T00:06:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T23:06:07","slug":"star-trek-live-in-concert-at-the-royal-albert-hall-abrams-pegg-giacchino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2014\/06\/05\/star-trek-live-in-concert-at-the-royal-albert-hall-abrams-pegg-giacchino\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek &#8211; Live in Concert at The Royal Albert Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Untitled-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15717\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Untitled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Star Trek at the Royal Albert Hall\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Royal Albert Hall in London is one of the world&#8217;s iconic music venues and recently they have been screening films in front of an orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>Last week they screened <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0172495\/\">Gladiator<\/a> (2000) with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lisa_Gerrard\">Lisa Gerrard<\/a> providing live vocals, and in the following days they showed J.J. Abrams&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_Trek_(film)\">Star Trek (2009)<\/a> and its sequel <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_Trek_Into_Darkness\">Star Trek Into Darkness<\/a> (2013), with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.21co.ch\/de\/index.php?navanchor=1010013\">21st Century Orchestra<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As the lights dimmed <a href=\"http:\/\/simonpegg.net\/\">Simon Pegg<\/a>, who plays Scotty in the current iteration of the long running sci-fi franchise, walked on stage and the crowd went suitably wild.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t just sci-fi geeks wearing Star Trek tops getting excited, but a more mixed crowd that saw film fans of all ages. (Although the conductor came out for the second half of the concert wearing a yellow James T. Kirk top!)<\/p>\n<p>This perhaps being a reflection of how Abrams&#8217; latest films have refreshed the long running saga for a mainstream audience whilst honouring the traditions set down by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series\">Gene Rodenberry&#8217;s TV in the 1960s<\/a> and the subsequent spin-offs.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qWgwp87Nqxs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Although these kind of musical events have been done before, they seem to be part of a new kind of theatrical experience which is seeks to get people back into cinemas in different ways.<\/p>\n<p>I had never experienced a &#8216;live-to-score&#8217; screening before and it was quite something to behold: wonderful sound, a huge screen and an iconic venue all made for an absorbing night.<\/p>\n<p>It helped that the venue was sold out (and not just by Star Trek fans) and there was a good atmosphere, but it was also interesting to observe the musicians from the 21st Century Orchestra playing their instruments in-sync with the movie.<\/p>\n<p>At times, it was difficult to decide what to watch: the film unfolding on screen or the musicians playing beneath them.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, a mixture of the two was probably what I ended up doing, but it was a tribute to the musicianship of the orchestra that it was perfectly in sync, as there was no margin for error.<\/p>\n<p>There was the added treat of introduction from Simon Pegg (Scotty), Michael Giacchino (composer) and J.J. Abrams (director), the latter getting a particularly large round of applause as he had just come from the set of his latest film (which also has the word &#8216;Star&#8217; in the title).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GF2_PcxCapw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps J.J. might be back sometime for a live to screening of that, but in the meantime I&#8217;d love to see Alfred Hitchcock&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Man_Who_Knew_Too_Much_(1956_film)\">The Man Who Knew Too Much<\/a> (1956), whose climax famously takes place at the Albert Hall.<\/p>\n<p>How cool would that be?<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalalberthall.com\/\">Royal Albert Hall<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCugNt9gmBgZSFEv4lc4B6Zg\">YouTube channel<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_Trek_(film)\">Star Trek (2009)<\/a> at Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Albert Hall in London is one of the world&#8217;s iconic music venues and recently they have been screening films in front of an orchestra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[621],"tags":[2089,2682,2681,540,940],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15716"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15721,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15716\/revisions\/15721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}