Pack your suitcase, count your kids, and come on over to Alta Live! In our last episode of the year, we’re excited to welcome Alta contributor Tim Greiving for a seasonally appropriate chat about the popularity of movie screenings paired with symphony performances, specifically the work of composer John Williams and his music for Home Alone. Inspired by his look at Disney Hall and Williams’s music in Alta Journal’s Issue 25, we’ll talk with Greiving about how and why major symphonies celebrate cinema, the undeniable mass appeal of Williams’s scores, and upcoming holiday Home Alone performances at both LAPhil and the San Francisco Symphony. This event is free to all—so keep the change, ya filthy animal.
About the guest:
Tim Greiving is an arts journalist in Los Angeles who specializes in film music. He regularly contributes to NPR, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post. His work has been published in the New York Times, Criterion, Variety, The Ringer, Los Angeles Magazine, and Vulture. He has written program notes for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Royal Albert Hall, and liner notes for more than one hundred soundtrack albums. He contributes to the Visual History Program for the Academy, and teaches film music history at the University of Southern California. He is currently writing the first English biography of composer John Williams, to be published by Oxford University Press.•
