- This 19th and 20th of July, Auditorio de Tenerife will host the grand symphonic concerts of the eighteenth edition of the Festival Internacional de Música de Cine de Tenerife.
- Oscar-winning composer Justin Hurwitz and Diego Navarro, founder of the festival, will helm the Orquesta Sinfónica in concerts ‘La La Land Live-to-picture’ and ‘A Million Dreams’.
The Festival Internacional de Música de Cine de Tenerife (FIMUCITÉ), the oldest event of the genre in the world, founded and directed by composer and conductor Diego Navarro, closes its eighteenth edition, dedicated to musicals, this weekend at the Auditorio de Tenerife Auditorium, with two great symphonic concerts that have been sold out” for weeks.
This Friday, July 19th, Justin Hurwitz, composer of the music for the film 'La La Land', for which he won two Oscars for Best Score and Best Original Song ('City of Stars', award shared with Benj Pasek and Justin Paul), will conduct the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife as they perform the score in perfect synchronisation with the images, dialogue and sound effects of the film. A new “live-to-picture” experience, after the success in past editions of FIMUCITÉ of the concerts dedicated to 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'. The orchestra will be accompanied on stage by a jazz band composed of ten musicians, among whom is the extraordinary pianist Polo Ortí, the main soloist of this concert.
Directed by Damien Chazelle, 'La La Land' combines the love of music and film in a modern musical set in Los Angeles. Starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, it tells the story of aspiring actress Mia and jazz musician Sebastian, who meet and fall in love in the “City of Stars.” Hurwitz composed the music on piano and then orchestrated it for 95 musicians, creating a lush, richly textured sound, reminiscent of classic Hollywood musicals.
The grand finale of FIMUCITÉ 18 will take place this Saturday, July 20th, at 7:00 p.m., with an extraordinary journey through the best musicals in history and their film adaptations under the direction of Diego Navarro. The 'A Million Dreams' program will explore monumental scores and host world premieres of symphonic arrangements of films such as 'A Chorus Line', 'The Wizard of Oz' and 'The Greatest Showman'. In addition, pieces from other emblematic musicals will be played, such as 'An American in Paris', 'Singin' in the Rain', 'My Fair Lady', 'The Phantom of the Opera', 'West Side Story' and 'Les Miserables'.
On this occasion, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife will be accompanied by a pop rock ensemble and the participation of top-level Canarian soloists, such as Cristina Ramos, Carmen Acosta, Néstor Galván and Fran León, among others. An invitation to imagine "a million dreams", as Hugh Jackman, Ziv Zaifman and Michelle Williams sang in the musical 'The Greatest Showman' (2017), based on the true story of visionary Phineas Taylor Barnum.
FIMUCITÉ will thus put the finishing touch to a glorious edition, with all the tickets sold for its musical shows held at the Teatro Leal in La Laguna, the Teatro Guimerá in Santa Cruz and the Auditorio de Tenerife, and also enjoying great success in its parallel activities of summer cinema, masterclasses and round tables.
FIMUCITÉ Film Scoring Academy
Today, Thursday, the FIMUCITÉ Film Scoring Academy programme concludes, with two final, long-awaited sessions. The Espacio Cultural CajaCanarias, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, hosts, at 4:30 p.m., the talk “The Evolution of the Musical” by Paco Dolz, creator of specialist websitel Love4musicals.com. As an expert and populariser of the genre, he will remind us of the most legendary musicals in the history of cinema, which can then be enjoyed live at the grand closing symphonic concert 'A Million Dreams'.
The final touch to the FIMUCITÉ Film Scoring Academy 2024 sessions will be, starting at 6:00 p.m., a round table with Justin Hurwitz, Paco Dolz and Robert Townson, one of the most prolific producers of film music in the world. Film and music lovers alike are invited to participate in this special event, where they will have the opportunity to delve into the fascinating world of musical composition for film, focusing on hit film 'La La Land'. Moderated by Gorka Oteiza, founder and director of the digital medium SoundTrackFest, it will be an exclusive meeting, the perfect complement to enjoying the “Live to Picture” experience of 'La La Land in Concert' live.
Outdoor concert
In addition, this Thursday, FIMUCITÉ offers a free open-air concert in the Plaza de España in Santa Cruz de Tenerife by the Banda Municipal de Música de Santa Cruz, the oldest in Spain, conducted by Juan Antonio Dominguez Martin. Alongside a selection of solo voices, starting at 8:00 p.m., they will offer a wonderful selection of musical film scores ranging from 'West Side Story' to 'Chicago', 'Les Miserables', 'Cats', 'The Lion King' or 'Moulin Rouge!'.
The Festival Internacional de Música de Cine de Tenerife (FIMUCITÉ), the oldest in the world dedicated to soundtracks and music for the screen, is directed by composer and conductor Diego Navarro, and has as its main sponsor Cabildo de Tenerife and Turismo de Tenerife, the government of Canarias via Turismo de Tenerife and the Instituto Canario de Desarollo Cultural, along with the councils of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and San Cristóbal de La Laguna. In addition, FIMUCITÉ would like to thank the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife and the Auditorio de Tenerife for their implication, and the special collaboration of Fundación Disa, Emmasa, Fundación SGAE, Fundación CajaCanarias, the Festival de Cine Fantástico de Canarias Ciudad de La Laguna Isla Calavera Domingo Alonso and AUDI, as the official Festival car, and Fundación Diario de Avisos, the Grupo Plató del Atlántico and Televisión Canaria as main media partners.