Daily News | In this new screening, the Philadelphia Orchestra is the star of An American in Paris
is real and deep, and more than a few synergistic sparks were sent flying Thursday night in the Philadelphia Orchestra’s live-to-screen presentation ofThe most remarkable aspect of this show, though, was the number of times the music saved the movie. It’s not a uniformly great film. Parisian culture comes across as canned. The dialogue can be corny.
The Gershwin brothers get the credit for the music and lyrics, and rightly so. The film brings back a patchwork of George Gershwin tunes, all from decades earlier , and, interestingly, the film’s namesake 20-minute score never appears in unadulterated form — not even in the famous ballet sequence near the end. And yet the two-hour film’s music is nearly wall to wall.
The Philadelphians were augmented with jazz-band elements that included five sax players, drum set and guitar, and the two genres melded beautifully.
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