INTRO SESSION SHENANIGANS
MITCH DALTON
The studio guitarist’s guide to happiness and personal fulfilment, as related by our resident session ace. This month: Bearly Adequate.
Mitch describes how tricky it is to perform music written for film
In recent years, the enthusiastic concert-goer may well have observed a growing trend. Namely, the opportunity to watch movies whose original score is performed by a live orchestra on stage, while the action plays out on a giant screen suspended overhead. Ironically, it’s a scenario that Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd would have recognised over a century ago, notwithstanding that technology has advanced exponentially from the Silent Era. There’s nothing new under the sun, eh? Or the screen, to be fair. Which leads me to Paddington Bear, the eponymous 2014 film.