{"id":9221,"date":"2016-12-12T17:55:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T17:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/?p=9221"},"modified":"2025-07-25T16:50:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:50:57","slug":"montage-great-composers-and-the-piano-documentary-l-a-premiere-qa-film-now-available-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=9221","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Montage: Great Composers and the Piano&#8217; Documentary &#8211; L.A. Premiere &#038; Q&#038;A \/ Film Now Available Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong><\/span> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/190646677\/524fb0af33\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Panel discussion featuring John Williams, Don Davis, Randy Newman, Bruce Broughton and Gloria Cheng now available on Vimeo<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/ondemand\/montage\">Watch &#8216;Montage: Great Composers and the Piano&#8217; at Vimeo On Demand<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/ondemand\/montage\">.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/152781430\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Pianist Gloria Cheng&#8217;s album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MontageFilmComposers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Montage: Great Film Composers and the Piano<\/a> was the subject of a film premiere, a mini-concert and <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/190646677\/524fb0af33\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a panel discussion<\/a> on October 15 at UCLA&#8217;s Schoenberg Hall.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Montage-Great-Film-Composers-Piano\/dp\/B00QB4MRFA\/jwfancom-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cheng&#8217;s album<\/a>, released in February 2015, contains newly commissioned solo-piano pieces by renowned composers John Williams, Randy Newman, Bruce Broughton, Don Davis, Michael Giacchino and Alexandre Desplat, all of whom are better known for their award-winning skills as composers for visual media.<\/p>\n<p>Cheng filmed the entire rehearsal and recording process, and producer Ben Proudfoot&#8217;s 27-minute distillation of highlights debuted Saturday night before an appreciative audience of about 500. The film is now making the festival rounds (<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/ondemand\/montage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and is available for rent on Vimeo<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Following the screening, Cheng performed excerpts from all six works, approximately 45 minutes of music, and received a standing ovation. After intermission, she was joined on stage by four of the composers: Williams, Newman, Broughton and Davis.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the new pieces, Williams said, &#8220;All this music reflects our feelings, characteristics, experiences, personalities and so on. It&#8217;s inescapable, really, like one&#8217;s handwriting or thumbprint.&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmmusicsociety.org\/news_events\/features\/2016\/101716.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full article at The Film Music Society<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/ondemand\/montage\">Watch &#8216;Montage: Great Composers and the Piano&#8217; at Vimeo On Demand<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/ondemand\/montage\">.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See also:<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/?p=6331\">John Williams&#8217; &#8216;Conversations&#8217; Premiered (Program Notes, Reviews &amp; Photos)<br \/>\n<\/a>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S4ZuAkBOcqg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Williams on Stage at &#8216;Conversations&#8217; Premiere (Video)<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/forums\/index.php?\/topic\/23254-conversations-new-chamber-piano-solo-by-john-williams\/&amp;do=findComment&amp;comment=1283081\">Discuss this topic in our forums<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Panel discussion featuring John Williams, Don Davis, Randy Newman, Bruce Broughton and Gloria Cheng now available on Vimeo. Watch &#8216;Montage: Great Composers and the Piano&#8217; at Vimeo On Demand. Pianist Gloria Cheng&#8217;s album Montage: Great Film Composers and the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=9221\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concert-works","category-events","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9221"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16589,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221\/revisions\/16589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}