Andrew Litton & Daniel Hope: Bergen International Festival

About the Event

Experience film music by exiled European composers in Southern California before and during World War II: Violinist Daniel Hope and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Andrew Litton, will perform their program, Hollywood Exiles, at the Bergen International Festival.

In the thirties and forties, exiled composers contributed to a revival of film music in the USA’s growing entertainment industry. Erich Wolfgang Korngold is considered the man behind ‘the Hollywood sound’. Max Steiner received 26 Oscar nominations for his work, which includes the music to Gone With the Wind. Miklos Rosza’s music to Ben Hur and El Cid has a place among the great classics too.