It's not a real cinema experience without emotions - what we always wanted to know about film music.

10^th of August 2023

Everyone knows them, everyone enjoys them. Everyone remembers it. Sometimes even years later. Scenes of the film play in our minds as soon as we hear those first few notes. The music of a motion picture lets us enter another world - the world of the fictional plot. But how is it made? What should it trigger within us? There are a thousand questions about this. David Bertok, composer from Los Angeles, spent an evening at Stadtstadel during a visit to Germany and in the course of the evening took the visitors on a wonderful journey into the world of film and its music. Examples over several decades up to his current film music project "Daughter of the Sun" by Ryan Ward, which just premiered in Montreal at the end of July 2023, showed the changes in film scores over the different genres. It was an exciting evening with alternating highlights on the piano and on the screen. Certainly a topic that promises much more to come. And David Bertok will be there. He has already confirmed that.

Photographer: Stefanie Gilio / Birgit Kastner-Simon