Limelight — May 2017

withtheoriginalcompositionswetalkedthroughthe

ideathatweweretryingtoexpress,andwhatthatscene

meantinthecontextoftheoverallfilm,andRichard

wouldthenrespondtothatmusically.”

“Ihaddreamingsaboutitbutit’stakenalongtime,”

admits Tognetti of the shaping of the score. “It’s very

hard to take an extant piece of music and craft it to a

film, so with the classical music – the Vivaldi, Beethoven

etc.–Iwouldgivethattothedirectors[Peedomand

Ozturk]andgetthemtocraftthefilmaroundthemusic.

Whereasifyouarecomposingmusic,youcraftitaround

thefilm.Thereisabigdifference.”

Asforhisoriginalcompositions,hesays:“Someof

themarefilmic,someofthemcreatedreamscapes.”

Peedomknewthatshewantedsomekindofnarrative

voiceinthefilm.Yearsearlier,shehadreadMacfarlane’s

2003 bookMountainsoftheMind–afascinating

investigation into our emotional and imaginative

responsestomountains,andhowthathaschangedover

the last three centuries. Woven through that meditation

THEORCHESTRANEEDSTOINHABIT

THAT FILMIC SPACE. NIGEL WAS INSISTENT

ON THAT. WE ARE PART OF THE FILM

areaccountsoflegendarymountainascentsandvivid

descriptions of Macfarlane’s own climbing exploits.

“That [book] really contained the ideas I wanted

toexpress,sowhenIwenttotheLondonFilm

Festival withSherpa,wewenttoCambridgeandspent

afewfantastichourswithhimandattheend

ofthathesaid,‘I’min,I’dlovetodoit.Atthatpoint,

theideabecamealotmorefocussed.Ithinkinitially

we’dbeencastingamuchbroadernet...butit

became about our fascination with mountains,

howtheymeanmanythingstopeople,andabout

the landscape and our interaction with it.”

Jennifer Peedom

at Everest Base Camp

MOUNTAINO

ADELAIDE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEASON2017

Nordic

Adventures

Fateful

Tchaikovsky

Youthful

Genius

April

Fri 28, 8pm

Sat 29, 6.30pm

BaxTintagel

GriegPiano Concerto

SibeliusSymphony No 2

Eivind AadlandConductor

Boris GiltburgPiano

Adelaide Town Hall Adelaide Town Hall Adelaide Town Hall

let the music in, book at aso.com.au

June

Fri 16, 8pm

Sat 17, 6.30pm

Brett Dean Amphitheatre

Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 1

Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4

Nicholas Carter Conductor

Li-Wei Qin Cello

May

Fri 26, 8pm

Sat 27, 6.30pm

Mozart Symphony No 1

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in D minor

Beethoven Symphony No 1

Anthony Marwood Director & Violin

Photo © Renan Ozturk