Review: "Cleveland Orchestra gives seamless performance of Herrmann's 'Psycho' score"
CLEVELAND — The Plain Dealer has published a review of Brett Mitchell and The Cleveland Orchestra's live performance of Bernard Herrmann's score to accompany a screening of Psycho:
Mitchell conducted with precision and a good ear for balances, within the ensemble and with the soundtrack of the movie. The players were exceptionally fine, the proof of which was their complete integration with the movie: you forgot, as you watched Hitchcock's nasty shocker unspool, that there was a live orchestra onstage.
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The Cleveland Orchestra acknowledged the superior mastery of film composer Bernard Herrmann Tuesday night when its string sections, under assistant conductor Brett Mitchell, performed the score to accompany a screening of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 movie “Psycho,” in Severance Hall.
Such “movie karaoke” experiences have become common — and quite popular — since the advent of George Daugherty's orchestra-plus-cartoons extravaganza, “Bugs Bunny on Broadway.” Daugherty and Bugs themselves have occupied the Cleveland Orchestra's podium on more than one occasion, and the exercise has been extended to live-action cinema, with movies of varying quality (“Casablanca” cheek-by-jowl with “Home Alone” in the current season) but with proven power at the box office…