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13 May 2025 Houston (The Spring) (USA)
Axiom String Quartet
Axiom String Quartet - The Centrum
Program Info: Throughout the course of their exciting journey as a group, the members of Axiom Quartet have won over the hearts of music lovers across the globe. Performing at a variety of venues and making countless public appearances, this talented quartet has earned the admiration and affection of critics and fans alike.
They will perform “Screen to Stage: Axiom’s favorite movie music alongside string quartets film composers Rózsa and Korngold.
About the composers:
Miklós Rózsa, an intellect and a gentleman of the old school, was an artist with an enormous contribution to the art of film music. His music has been both light in tone and heavily dramatic in feeling, and he was one of very few film composers highly regarded enough to be accepted to the classical stage as well as in the motion picture studio. His music is timeless, his melodies are of rare beauty, his approach was always unique having the ability to deepen to the story of a film, enhancing the drama and revealing everything that is not shown on the big screen. During his work in Hollywood, Miklós Rózsa won three Academy Awards (“Spellbound”, “A Double Life” and “Ben-Hur”) and was nominated 17 times. Although certainly one of the most gifted of the last century’s composers of classical works, Rózsa had a vibrant rapport with the dramatic, which combined with his interest and background in musicology and a highly individualistic style, has made him an ideal composer for the screen.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Korngold, born in 1897 to an already musical family (with older brother Hans becoming a musician, and father Leopold a music critic), and quickly became a musical prodigy – able to play complex piano pieces competently at the age of 5, and beginning his first foray into composing at age 7. By 11, he was composing full ballets, the first of which was The Snowman (Der Schneemann), which was performed at Vienna Grand Opera. Korngold later fled Europe amidst the rise of Nazism, with a lucrative offer to move to Hollywood to score for notable director Max Reinhardt. What followed was a career split between classical work and scoring for Hollywood films, winning multiple Oscars (for his Anthony Adverse and The Adventures of Robin Hood scores) and gaining a reputation as a pioneering composer in the golden age of Hollywood.
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