For its premiere season, the Scott Dunn Orchestra will present two concerts at The Wallis, celebrating Los Angeles’ amazing heritage of film music.
The Scott Dunn Orchestra’s inaugural concert, The Hollywood Modernists: The Second Golden Age of Film Scoring, celebrates composers Bernard Herrmann, Alex North, Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith, Leonard Rosenman and others, who introduced jazz and modernism into the language of film scoring through such iconic films as Psycho, A Streetcar Named Desire, Chinatown, North by Northwest, Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden and To Kill a Mockingbird.
The Scott Dunn Orchestra returns for its second performance of the 24/25 season with Henry Mancini at 100: A Celebration of the Man and his Music. Tracing Mancini’s amazing career from big band pianist/arranger, through his days at Universal Pictures, to his development as one of the most influential film composers of the 20th Century, the concert will chronicle music and songs from his early TV and Grammy winning recording work as well as his inimitable scoring for such films as Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Pink Panther, Days of Wine and Roses, Moment to Moment and Victor/Victoria.
