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Standing on the stage of London’s Royal Albert Hall, the
German composer played a keyboard alongside a 60-piece orchestra
and the hall’s grand organ as the film played out on a large
screen behind them.
Zimmer has won Oscar, Grammy and Golden Globe awards, and has
written scores for more than 100 films including "Gladiator",
"Rain Man" and the "Pirates of the Caribbean" blockbusters. He
told Reuters of his excitement of writing for and performing
with live musicians.
"We have this honor to write music for these orchestras, and
keep these orchestras going, and I think this is really
important. We take that very seriously," he said.
"I was a session player here in London before I became a
composer in Hollywood and I think the greatest compliment I keep
getting from the musicians here is that I am a part of them."
The 2014 film, which stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway,
Jessica Chastain and Michael Caine, tells the story of a group
of astronauts who travel in search of a new home for mankind.
Monday's gala screening saw cosmologist Stephen Hawking
introduce Zimmer, director Christopher Nolan, executive producer
and theoretical physicist Kip Thorne and physicist Brian Cox for
a Q&A session about the film before the performance.
Speaking on the red carpet, Nolan told Reuters that the score's
original performers would be the ones performing live.
"They're getting to have a relationship live with the audience
and I think that's going to be very exciting," he said.
Having largely been snubbed at a series of awards earlier this
year, "Interstellar" triumphed at the Empire Awards in London on
Sunday, scooping 'Best Film' and 'Best Director' for Nolan.
(Reporting by Holly Rubenstein, additional reporting by
Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by David Gregorio)
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