Students Record Film Music at Symphony Hall
Dream project brings together 200 musicians and five schools for a landmark film score recording session.
February 20, 2007
Two Berklee students in their last semester are proving true the classic Sinatra tune: "Dreams can come true . . . if you're young at heart." The dream in this case is the brainchild of composition and film scoring major Lucas Vidal. He not only created the music, but developed an opportunity for 240 other students from five schools in New England, New York, and Florida to help produce a large-scale, live film score recording.What the Sinatra song doesn't mention was the importance of having a partner with a talent for making that dream come true. Vidal needed someone with the passion to pitch his dream and the know-how to create the blueprint for that dream. That someone turned out to be Belgian student Steve Dzialowski, a senior majoring in music business/management. It all comes together on March 11 as the pair produce a live recording of one of Vidal's original scores in Boston's Symphony Hall. (Please note: this recording session is not open to the public.) The session was organized by a 27-member, all-student team, a massive project that serves as a model for the professional work they and their classmates hope to undertake one day.In addition, Vidal and Dzialowski have partnered with the DAVE School at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, known for animation, and the Boston Conservatory. The Boston Conservatory is contributing an 88-piece orchestra and a 50-voice women's chorus to the project. There will be 40 students from all but three of Berklee's 12 majors involved, including several from music production and engineering who will handle sound for the venue, under the supervision of the Symphony Hall house engineer. While the orchestra performs, the film—Chimera—will run in synch on a Symphony Hall screen. True to the method used for the movies, a mock-up team will create a computer simulation of the orchestration beforehand to ensure the finished product will sound as expected. New York Film Academy and Emerson College students will be on board to produce a weekly making-of video that will chronicle the project's progress on the web, and New England School of Photography students will shoot all of the action.
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Composer Lucas Vidal, one of the two students behind the March 11 film score session, conducts an earlier recording session.
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Photo by Nick Balkin
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Born in Spain, Vidal was awarded the Richard Levy Award, the Berklee Composition department's highest honor.
Dzialowski interned last summer with Sony BMG Masterworks, which handles classical music, crossover, and soundtracks. It was during that internship that the classically trained pianist's love of the genre and his business acumen meshed and the appeal of music for movies emerged. As project manager of the Chimera film score production, Dzialowski is supervising the 27-member student team, coordinating the recording session, and managing the budget.
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