mercredi 30 août 2017

Charles at the San Sebastian fortnight festival with CincinatiSymphonie

29th August 2017 Palacio de Congresso del Kursaal, San Sébastian
Reciting the texts of Abraham Lincoln supposed to Dance "a great responsibility".  And more, he added, "taking into account who the current tenant of the White House is . "  The actor, who takes part in this musical assembly for the third time after his time at the Edinburgh Festival and the London Proms, emphasizes that the writings of the sixteenth president of the United States are still in force today, "although they are too long to hang them in A tweet ".
 Dance is "delighted" with the work he has done with the orchestra and director Louis Langrée because he assumes, he says, "take on emotional risks."  "Being constantly aware of the image or the cameras" makes the actors "forget what is really their profession," which consists, he says, in "getting a text to the public as best you can without thinking of one same".  And he has admitted that at this point he can not avoid having a somewhat "cynical" view of his profession.  " The actors constantly complain about how hard it is to shoot a movie," he says, "but this work does not consist in putting out fires or enduring wars.
                                                   
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dimanche 27 août 2017

3 reviews and a video ...and BBC Radio 3

with conductor Louis Langrée
 
This drama lingered into Copland’s Lincoln Portrait, where the orchestra created a wonderful, expansive sound. They were joined by actor Charles Dance with the excerpts from Lincoln’s speeches and writings that Copland inserts into the piece. Although he made a striking entrance, Dance's delivery seemed a little rushed, meaning the words lost some of their profundity
Many fine actors have narrated Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait since it was first performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in 1942 when William Adams narrated. For us, it was English actor Charles Dance giving a slight American accent. The text comes up with 'This is what he said' on a number of occasions. Charles Dance's interpretation was schoolmasterish and determined. We had to take note that he was about to say something about Abraham Lincoln, to which we needed to listen and absorb.
The Lincoln Portrait is a splendid bit of morale-boosting hokum, combining stirring quotes from the man himself with random biographical facts (“When standing erect he was 6ft 4in tall”), clothed in music that depicts something of the zeitgeist and also the gravity of a wartime situation. Charles Dance was the narrator here, affecting a not always entirely convincing American accent. The real problem, however, was the amplification: over-resonant and lacking in the clarity that is really the point in such a work. In these interesting political times, the work seems to have acquired new layers of meaning: a reminder of true statesmanship perhaps, with every word a rebuke to current leaders.
https://www.theguardian.com/music
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Prom 58: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Louis Langree
 
 

vendredi 25 août 2017

Charles performs Copland's Lincoln and BBC Radio 4 interview

Words spoken by Abraham Lincoln to Congress in 1862 are still considered relevant and very powerful today and being narrated by Charles Dance at the Edinburgh festival.
 
Charles at 2:28:37
 
Charles Dance performs Copland's Lincoln Portrait | 2017 International Festival  

mercredi 23 août 2017

Charles : Good Morning Britain about his career

Charles Dance Discusses His Colourful Career | Good Morning Britain

                                                    
Charles was explaining to the host that he discovered so much that he didn’t know about his family history, saying: “I’m now able to tell my children a b****y sight more about me that I knew.”
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Speaking about his on screen son, he joked: “ungrateful little s*d.” 

mardi 22 août 2017

That good night trailer

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Charles voice over Age of Empires IV

Microsoft is teaming up with Dawn of War developer Relic Entertainment to create the first PC entry in the Age of Empires series in 12 years. Called Age of Empires IV, the game is looking to reinvent the modern real-time strategy title and will be joined by remasters of its predecessors, with both II and III set to receive brand-new overhauls.
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Pulling in Charles Dance to provide the voice-over to the epic-sounding trailer was a smart move on Microsoft’s part, but many will now turn to Relic Entertainment to see what it can do.
 
Age of Empires IV Announcement Trailer

samedi 19 août 2017

Charles to Join CSO on European Tour

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Charles Dance, OBE, will join Louis Langrée and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra on their 2017 European tour. The 'Game of Thrones' actor will lend his talents to narrating Copland's extraordinary orchestral work 'Lincoln Portrait'.
"I am thrilled to be performing this historic work with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra as part of their European tour. Past performances of the work have included speakers of high esteem, and I am delighted to be joining that list. I look forward to performing with the CSO as they make their debut performances at the Edinburgh International Festival, BBC Proms and San Sebastian's Musical Fortnight festival," Dance said.
British actor Charles Dance will perform alongside the orchestra at their Edinburgh, London and San Sebastian tour dates, reading the coveted role of narrator.
 
American composer Aaron Copland was commissioned to produce a work in celebration of an 'emineNT American', choosing former president Abraham Lincoln as his subject. Using fragments of Lincoln's speeches and letters, including the famous Gettysburg Address, Copland created a dramatic piece of orchestral music that has stood the test of time.
In 1942, at the height of World War Two, the CSO premiered the musical tribute, and have performed the work with guest narrators throughout the last century.
Visitors to Scotland's Edinburgh International Festival can hear the premiere of this piece with Charles Dance on 25th August at Usher Hall in the city's West End.
The CSO will make its BBC Proms debut on 27th August in the historic Royal Albert Hall.
In total, eleven concerts in six countries will be held, including performances in Utrecht, Antwerp, Eindhoven, Santander and San Sebastian and Paris.
Founded in 1895, the CSO is the sixth oldest orchestra in the United States, and the first to be broadcast to a national radio audience in 1921. Boasting a rich musical history with close ties to local communities in the state of Ohio, the CSO has been a fixture in the classical music scene in Cincinnati for well over a century.
 
25th August 2017
Edinburgh International Festival, Usher Hall, EN
 BERNSTEIN Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront
 COPLAND Lincoln Portrait (Charles Dance, Narrator)
 BRAHMS Symphony No. 1
 
27th August 2017
 BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, London, EN
 BERNSTEIN Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront
 COPLAND Lincoln Portrait (Charles Dance, Narrator)
 TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5
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