“Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - in Concert" will be performed at Providence Performing Arts Center, at 220 Weybosset St. We want the audience to have the exact, or better, sonic experience than they may have at home.” “It would be a shame to have the chorus parts played on a track. When the audience has all that coming at them at once, it’s just amazing,” he says. “We will have more than 100 people on stage. Rowling’s Harry Potter tales, “Prisoner of Azkaban” features a live choir to perform as the Hogwarts choir from the film. At parts of this show, English horn solos or the lush playing of strings help audiences feel the film’s emotion and excitement. “Each instrument has its own timbre, and it can be very emotional. “There are so many different colors in an orchestra - strings, woodwinds, brass,” he says. The combination of film and live music is incomparable, he says. Today, he adds, composers are writing scores anticipating the transition to live performances, which makes things much easier for conductors. We were trying to re-create it, and the composing needed to be adjusted and the orchestra rebalanced,” Young says. “Until then, music was largely written for the studio. The challenge of creating music and synchronizing it live with the film’s action was enticing, he says. He was first tapped as an associate conductor and concertmaster, or “leader of the pit,” for several Broadway shows before joining the film concert production of “The Lord of the Rings” about 10 years ago. Watching different conductors work also helped him decide the sort of conductor he wanted to be. Directing the church’s amateur choir helped him become comfortable working with musicians. The Juilliard graduate played in an orchestra before assuming the conductor’s role, and credits his church for giving him the confidence to step up there. My wish is the audience experiences many new things and sees really how amazing and cool the orchestra is.” “It’s like a fantastic-sounding theater with the orchestra layered on top. “We are trying to enhance all our senses,” Young says. Imagine Harry zipping around after the snitch in a feisty aerial Quidditch game while the violinists furiously glide their bows across the strings in accompaniment, he said in a phone call from his New Jersey home. “We enhance the experience and give the audience an extra layer.” “We tell the story through music,” Young says of the orchestra that plays on stage as the film shows in high definition on a 40-foot screen behind them. 8, as part of the Providence Performing Arts Center’s Film Concert Series. Young, a native of Taiwan who picked up violin in an elementary school music class, directs the Rhode Island Philharmonic during a showing of the film on Saturday, Feb.
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You may have read "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" and watched the movie multiple times, maybe even in 3D, but conductor Shih-Hung Young says you haven’t fully experienced it until you see the fantastical adventure while a live orchestra provides its soundtrack. 8 at the Providence Performing Arts Center. The live orchestra and a choir will deliver the soundtrack at two screenings of the film Feb.