It’s an interesting question because when this project was first presented, one of the stumbling blocks was there just wasn’t a lot of music - or enough music - in the first half to make for a satisfying night in the concert hall. Let’s talk about the prospect of adding 20 minutes of new music to Back to the Future. Yet as Silvestri explained to us over the phone, the task ended up being a lot easier - a far less stressful - than it initially seemed.

The Back to the Future trilogy without his musical flourishes would be like Star Wars without the opening crawl’s boisterous theme music or Empire Strikes Back‘s “Imperial March.” The films just wouldn’t work, which is why the live concert series’ need for 20 additional minutes of music proved so daunting at first. As a result, the experiment first performed during the summer of 2015 will come to a close - capping off a year and a half’s worth of celebrations to commemorate the 30th anniversary of director Robert Zemeckis’ classic film.Īlan Silvestri score to the trilogy plays a vital, if sometimes overlooked, role in making the films so memorable. The touring show will then break for January, travel to Switzerland for two performances in February, then break again for March before heading to Italy for two final shows. On New Year’s Eve, the final performance of the Back to the Future live concert series will take place at Symphony Hall in Boston.

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