So, Hear Me Out: Are film and game soundtracks ‘proper’ classical music?
Where do the boundaries of what can be considered to be classical music start and end?
In this, our seventh episode of So, Hear Me Out, hosts Gillian Moore and Linton Stephens are casting their ears to the worlds of film soundtracks and video game scores and asking whether we can call this classical music?
Drawing on the examples of Mica Levi’s score for the 2013 Scarlett Johansson film Under the Skin and the soundtrack from the video game ‘Soulcalibur II,’ Moore and Stephens delve into how orchestrations such as these draw from centuries of musical tradition and craft.
This episode of the podcast also touches on the opinions of legendary composer John Williams and contrasts the classical training of contemporary composers like Levi as our hosts invites listeners to rethink genre boundaries and recognise the evolving landscape of classical music.
‘So, the great John Williams, whose music is played in concert halls without films all the time, even he’s saying that he doesn’t consider it to be real classical music’
Gillian Moore
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