Movie music with Peninsula Symphony
Dinosaurs! Superheroes! Pirates! Deserts and plantations! We’re almost at the movies with Maestro Gary Berkson and the Peninsula Symphony by Bondo Wyszpolski Close your eyes, and you’re halfway there. Although the lights won’t go down, theme music from such silver screen blockbusters as “Star Wars,” “Jurassic Park,” and “The Avengers” may induce a cinematic euphoria when the Peninsula Symphony, under the baton of Maestro Gary Berkson, presents “Masters of Movie Music” in Redondo Beach on Sunday, July 31. Berkson’s tenure as the Peninsula Symphony’s music director and conductor began in 2009. Although he retired from the company in 2020, he’s been invited back to lead his former orchestra — and of course the audience — on a journey through some of the grander, and most sublime compositions in filmic history. The program also includes music from “Lawrence of Arabia” and “Gone With The Wind.” We met up late one afternoon before rehearsals in the music building at Los Angeles Harbor College. Peninsula Symphony presents a yearly, four-concert classical series, but then includes a Sunday Pops Concert, “of a lighter nature, without an intermission,” Berkson says, “in the hope that this…
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