b'PROGRAM NOTESto tell Karel about their affair. Desperate to keep Hollenius from ruining her life and Karels career, Christine shoots Hollenius dead.Before this melodramatic ending, in an attempt to humiliate Karel, Hollenius asks the cellist to perform his new concerto, all the while secretly planning to have another cellist premiere the work. In the film, the concerto scene lasts approximately five minutes. To make the original concerto music into a viable stand-alone work, Korngold expanded the music from five to 13 minutes, and it becomes a micro-concerto with contrasting sections. The agitated opening shifts seamlessly into a contrasting slow interlude that features a gorgeous melody for the soloist. This is the Korngold sound most familiar to audiences: opulent harmonies and all-out romantic expression. The agitation returns, jumping restlessly from one idea to the next, and the concerto ends with a cadenza and a triumphant flourish.JOHN WILLIAMSEscapades from Catch Me If You Canfor Alto Saxophone and OrchestraComposer: Born February 8, 1932, Flushing, Queens, NYWork composed: 2002World premiere: The film Catch Me If You Can with Williams score premiered on December 25, 2002.Instrumentation: 3 flutes, 2 oboes, 3 clarinets, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 2 trombones, bass trombone, tuba, timpani, percussion, piano/celeste, harp, and stringsEstimated duration: 13 minutesT he name John Williams is synonymous with movie music. He became a household name with the Academy Award-winning 1977 score he wrote for Star Wars and has defined the symphonic Hollywood sound ever since. Over his career, Williams has garnered a record 54 Oscar nominations for Best Original Score, including the one he wrote for longtime collaborator Steven Spielbergs 2002 film Catch Me If You Can. The movie is based on Frank Abagnales eponymous autobiography, which details his criminal activities during the 1960s, as well as the FBIs years-long campaign to apprehend him. Over seven years, Abagnale impersonated an airline pilot, a doctor, and a public prosecutor during his successful efforts as a master conman and forger.The film is set in the now nostalgically tinged 1960s, Williams writes about Escapades, and so it seemed to me that I might evoke the atmosphere of that time by writing a sort of impressionistic memoir of the progressive jazz movement that was then so popular. The alto saxophone seemed the ideal vehicle for this expression . In Closing In, we have music that relates to the often-humorous sleuthing, which took place in the story, followed by Reflections, which refers to the fragile relationships in Abagnales family. Finally, in Joy Ride, we have the music that accompanies Franks wild flights of fantasy that took him all over the world before the law finally reined him in.srsymphony.org2024-2025 Season 15'