Hollywood

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Demonstrate your movie trivia skills at the concert!

Members of the audience can show off their Hollywood trivia skills by answering questions about the movies featured in the program.

Come up with the right answers and compete as a finalist for the Symphony’s Grand Trivia Prize!

Trivia questions from the Symphony emails and press releases:

Which port did the Titanic sail from?

How many brothers founded Warner Brothers?

Which segment of 'Fantasia' used Beethoven's music and generated complaints about cartoon nudity?

Name another movie with Venice in the title

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The Cowboys Overture (John Williams) 'The Cowboys' 1972. Directed by Mark Rydell. John Wayne, Collen Dewhurst, Rosco Lee Brown, Bruce Dern.

Hooray for Hollywood! 1975. A mainly musical trip to the films and stars of the 1930's with archival footage of Humphrey Bogart, Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, Carol Lombard, Cary Grant, Carmen Miranda, Elizabeth Taylor, Buster Keaton, even James Cagney tap-dancing and John Wayne singing. Narrated by Mickey Rooney.

American Patrol March (F.W. Meachum) ‘Thousands Cheer’ 1943. Directed by George Sidney. Gene Kelly, Kathryn Grason, Mary Astor. Appearances by Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Red Skelton. Plot Summary: Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter...

Fantasia - Mount Olympus segment. (Ludwig van Beethoven) 1940. Disney's Fantasia used Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony (Number 6) and delicate color styling to depict a mythical ancient Grecian world of the gods of Mount Olympus, centaurs and, a special Disney invention, centaurettes This portion of the film was criticized for brief yet blatant nudity on the part of the centaurettes. The Lewisville Lake Symphony will be playing the full symphony in the April 20, 2007 concert but without centaurettes. Sorry.

Hymn to the Fallen (John Williams) 'Saving Private Ryan' 1998 Directed by Steven Speilburg. Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Vin Diesel, Mat Damon, Ted Danson, Paul Giamatti

The Carnival of Venice ( ) 'Il Carevale di Venezia' 1928. Directed by Mario Almirante. Alex Bernard, Maria Jacobini. The folk tune has popularly associated with the words "My hat, it has three corners" (which sounds more ominously profound in Italian.) It was worked into the musical accompaniment for the silent movie. A series of theme and variations have been written for solo trumpet, as "show off" pieces that contain virtuosic displays of double and triple tonguing and fast tempi.

Hollywood Blockbusters (James Horner) Music from 'Apollo 13,' 'Braveheart,' 'Titanic' and other Horner scores.

Suite for Trumpet and Strings (William Latham) The music that’s ready for its close-up. William Latham was a professor at UNT's College of Music. Hear the music, imagine the movie that demands it on the soundtrack!

Bert Truax played Second Trumpet with the Dallas Symphony for 23 years. In 1986 he took a leave of absence to play Second Trumpet with the Philadelphia Orchestra for their fall season. Born in the Bay Area, Bert was a soloist with the San Francisco Symphony when he was 13 years old. He studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with Gilbert Johnson before coming to Dallas in 1976.

Currently Bert is Principal Trumpet with the Richardson Symphony, and one of the busiest freelancers in the metroplex. A well known teacher and clinician, he was a featured speaker at the International Trumpet Guild Conference this past May. He has also released an interactive instructional DVD called Bert’s Basic Brass.

As a composer, Bert has written music in both classical and jazz styles. His CD, Sea of Treasures, is a jazz/rock CD made up of all original compositions. As a classical composer, Bert has had many commissions from such groups as the Dallas Symphony, the Dallas Bach Society, and the Military Academy at West point. Many of these works have been recorded on the Crystal label.

4] Movies with 'Venice' in the title? We are sorry we asked. We were thinking of 'Death in Venice' but found 104 Venice movies on the internet. Merchant of V, Sunset in V, Kid Auto Races in V, The Maori Merchant of V, Sunset in V, Night Train to V, Vampire in V, Captain of V, Remembering V , Soul of V, A day in V, Death in V, V of Brooklyn, Wizard of V, V Vamp, V Beach, V Medical, Venus of V. We could go on....