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Retooled 'Back to the Future' score gives the movie a new energy in concert @ LATimes.com
"The DeLorean? Sure. The Enchantment Under the Sea Dance? Probably. The flux capacitor? No doubt.
"Back to the Future" has more than its share of touchstones and memes, all the way back in 1985 when no one talked about memes. But among the Robert Zemeckis film's most striking aspects is its score, and composer Alan Silvestri's triptych of doom-tension-release that elevates the film's best moments.
On Thursday night at Radio City Music Hall, that score was in full effect as thousands, many in costume, packed the venue for the first of two dates of "Back to the Future in Concert," in which more than 80 orchestra musicians played the score live onstage with the movie unfolding behind them. It was part of the Film Concerts Live! series that will see a similar performance on more than a dozen dates in the months to come, at venues scattered from Chicago to Australia.........." click below to