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Peter Henton, 60; film and television producer

Veteran producer Peter Henton passed away suddenly in his sleep at his Studio City, California, home on October 27, 2006.  He was 60 years old.

Born October 2nd, 1946 outside London, Henton grew up in England’s Lake District where he attended St. Bees Boarding School.  He completed his studies at the London Film School before embarking on a distinguished career in film, television and event production.  He was a cameraman for Gateway Films before moving into production with WGHT in 1978 and later forming his own company through Shepperton Studios, England, producing documentaries, music videos and long-form music shows for BBC Television and the ITV network and major recording labels such as CBS Records, PolyGram Records and Virgin. 

Henton moved to Los Angeles in 1984 at the invitation of National Production Services to take up the position of Head of Production and in 1991, took over as Vice President and Head of Production at 70mm Giant Screen Company, Showscan Entertainment, where he was responsible for many Large Format (IMAX) films.  In 1998 he left Showscan to form Dover Films, and under that banner combined film and television production with live event production.  He produced a number of independent Large Format (IMAX) films including the official 70mm live action titles for both the 1998 Summer and Winter Olympics. Henton was also the video producer for the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra.

Through his long association with the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Los Angeles, (BAFTA/LA), Women in Film and Human Rights Watch, Henton produced multiple televised tribute and award shows working alongside directors and actors such as George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise, Anthony Hopkins, Tom Hanks, Gwyneth Paltrow, Annette Bening, Sir Michael Caine, Dame Elizabeth Taylor, Dame Helen Mirren and Jamie Foxx among others.  Henton served on The BAFTA/LA Board of Directors from 1998 through 2000 and this year’s 2006 BAFTA/LA Cunard Britannia Awards is dedicated to him.

Henton is survived by his wife of fifteen years, Joyce.

A public memorial service is scheduled for 11:00am, November 4th at St. Bede The Venerable Catholic Church, 215 Foothill Blvd, La Cañada-Flintridge, CA.

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Contact: Judi Davidson, Lisa England 323-954-7510  lisa.england@dcpublicity.com



Guest Host: Samantha Eggar
Special Guests: John Badham, Charles Durning, Sydney Pollack. Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher

HSO: Over 100 of Hollywood’s finest musicians and singers

 

                 The Hollywood Symphony Orchestra is pleased to announce the world premiere of music by award-winning director Clint Eastwood from his upcoming release, “Flags of Our Fathers,” the world premiere of music by award-winning composer Craig Armstrong (“Ray” and “Moulin Rouge”) from the "World Trade Center,” and the U.S. premiere of music from “The Matrix” by award-winning composer Don Davis. Samantha Eggar will present selected pieces, director John Badham will present music from his film “Dracula,” by composer John Williams and director Sydney Pollack will present music from his film “Havana,” by composer Dave Grusin. 

 The Hollywood Symphony Orchestra follows its highly successful inaugural concert with another evening of exquisite symphonic music from the movies on Saturday, October 7th at 8 p.m. at Royce Hall, on the UCLA campus. Over one hundred of Hollywood's top musicians and singers will appear on stage for an exciting gala event and concert program which will range all the way from Sergei Prokofiev’s classic score for the 1938 film “Alexander Nevsky” to exclusive world and national concert premieres.  Composers represented at press time include Craig Armstrong, Elmer Bernstein, Clint Eastwood, Don Davis, Ernest Gold, Dave Grusin, Maurice Jarre, Sergei Prokoviev, Miklós Rózsa, John Scott, Dimitri Tiomkin, and John Williams.

                 Clint Eastwood is one of the most prolific, versatile artists in the history of the medium, involving himself first as an actor, then as a director, producer and composer. In 2004, Eastwood’s critically acclaimed drama “Million Dollar Baby” earned seven Academy Award nominations and won four Oscars. In 2003, “Mystic River” won six Academy Award nominations and two Oscars. Eastwood’s 1993 foreboding, revisionist western, “Unforgiven,” won nine Academy Award nominations and four Oscars. Successful soundtrack albums have been a consistent Eastwood signature to his films, be they jazz-oriented (“Bird,” “The Bridges of Madison County,” “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”) or country (“Every Which Way But Loose,” “Bronco Billy,” “Any Which Way You Can,” and “Honkytonk Man”.) Working with composer Lennie Niehaus, Eastwood wrote the key melody for both “Unforgiven” (Claudia’s Theme) and “The Bridges of Madison County” (Doe Eyes).  Eastwood also composed the score for “Million Dollar Baby” and “Mystic River.” This Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement and Kennedy Center Honors Award winner has won the People’s Choice Award five times.

                 Craig Armstong is known for his versatility in musical styles. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he studied at the Royal Academy of Music, became resident student composer for the London Contemporary Dance School, won the 1982 GLAA Young Jazz Musician of the Year, and in pop music, provided orchestral arrangements for Madonna and U2. He orchestrated scores for the films “Goldeneye,” “Batman Forever,” and “Mission Impossible” and, after creating additional scoring for Baz Lurhman’s film “William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet,” went on to compose scores for “The Bone Collector” and “Plunkett & Macleane.” Combining pop music with orchestral composition, he received a Golden Globe Award and the American Film Institute Award for his work on “Moulin Rouge!” and a Grammy for his soundtrack to “Ray.” His recent scores include “The Quiet American,” “The Clearing,” “Love Actually,” “Fever Pitch,” “Must Love Dogs,” and “World Trade Center.”

                 Don Davis has composed the scores for dozens of top television movies and series, which have garnered him eight Emmy nominations and two wins.  In 1997 Davis composed the score for Larry and Andy Wachowski’s off-beat thriller “Bound.” The directing brothers immediately formed a close working relationship with Davis, which prompted them to bring him on for their Matrix trilogy.  “The Matrix” turned out to be not only one of the biggest blockbusters, but one of the best received films of that year. In 2004, Don Davis and Erik Lundborg re-worked music from all three Matrix films into a concert suite. It was re-orchestrated for performance by a standard orchestra and was first performed in Sweden by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Davis is currently composing music for his opera “Río de Sangre” and is scoring the music for the movie “Ten Inch Hero,” directed by David McKay.

                For more than thirty years, conductor John Scott has been regarded as one of the finest composers working internationally in films today, having collaborated with the foremost producers and directors including Richard Donner, Mark Damon, Hugh Hudson, Norman Jewison, Irvin Kershner, Daniel Petrie, Roger Spottiswoode, and Charlton Heston, among others. Frequently associated with other well-known Hollywood composers, including Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams, he has created a body of work that is some of the finest music ever written for film. Scott worked with Beatles producer George Martin, recording with such artists as Tom Jones, Cilla Black, and The Hollies. His first film score, “A Study in Terror” led to music for almost 100 films, among them “Antony and Cleopatra,” “North Dallas Forty,” “The Final Countdown,” “Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan,” “King Kong Lives,” “Shoot to Kill,” “Lionheart,”  and a series of scores for Jacques Cousteau’s documentaries. He has conducted many of the world’s finest orchestras, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Munich Symphony Orchestra.

                The concert is presented by the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra Society. Dedicated to preserving and presenting timeless works by contemporary composers of film and television music in a setting worthy of their creative gifts and talents, the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra Society honors an art-form too rarely heard to its full dramatic effects on the concert stage. The Hollywood Symphony Orchestra Society is pleased to bring these exquisite concerts featuring symphonic film and television to our community. In addition to its concerts, the HSOS is working to set up activities involving interaction between schools, the orchestra and a variety of multimedia projects to help their students explore and understand the concept and value of music for film and providing mentoring from masters of the art to emerging film composers. 

For more information, please visit www.hollywoodsymphonyorchestra.org or email info@hsos.org

Editors, Please Note:

Saturday, October 7 – Royce Hall, UCLA campus
Hollywood Symphony Orchestra
Cantori Domino and Greater Los Angeles Massed Choir
John Scott, conductor

Guest Host: Samantha Eggar
Guest Presenters: John Badham, Charles Durning, Sydney Pollack,
Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher, Gina Torres

Program: (revised 9/6 - subject to change)

“Flags of Our Fathers” (2006)	Clint Eastwood
“World Trade Center” (2006)	Craig Armstrong
“The Matrix” (1999)	Don Davis
“Havana” (1990)	Dave Grusin
“The Final Countdown” (1980)	John Scott
“Dracula” (1979)	John Williams
“Lawrence Of Arabia” (1962)	Maurice Jarre
“El Cid” (1961)	Miklós Rózsa
“Alexander Nevsky” (1938)	Sergei Prokofiev
Landmark Themes Tribute
“The Alamo” (1960)	Dimitri Tiomkin
“The Man With The Golden Arm” (1955)	Elmer Bernstein
“Exodus” (1960)	Ernest Gold

 
Where:                              Royce Hall, UCLA
Date/Time:                       Saturday, October 7 at 8 p.m.
 

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Website:                           www.hollywoodsymphonyorchestra.org
Region(s):                        Hollywood/Westside/Beverly Hills Area

 

Additional Info:   www.hollywoodsymphonyorchestra.org

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lisa.england@dcpublicity.com

105.1 K-Mozart TO BROADCAST HOLLYWOOD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’S  INAUGURAL CONCERT SUNDAY, AUGUST 20  8:00pm Pacific Time.

You can hear this concert live online!

HSO: The only world-class orchestra dedicated entirely to symphonic film music

Broadcast features works by Goldsmith, Korngold, Mancini, North, Scott, Mahler, Vaughan Williams and Williams from the films “Memoirs of a Geisha,”  “A Streetcar Named Desire,” “Logan’s Run,” “Greystoke: Legend of Tarzan,” “Kings Row,”  “Death in Venice,” “Scott of the Antarctic,” “Antony and Cleopatra”  and “Peter Gunn.”

On Sunday, August 20th at 8:00 pm on classical music radio station 105.1 K-Mozart will broadcast the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra’s inaugural concert at Royce Hall.  On Thursday, May 18, composer/conductor John Scott and The Hollywood Symphony Orchestra presented an  eclectic evening of works from memorable film scores with Special guests Samantha Eggar, Michael York, and Alan Mandell. Maestro Scott led the newly formed 80-member orchestra with 40-voice Cantori Domino choir through compositions for the cinema.  “This upcoming broadcast with the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra is a wonderful gift to our community and we are excited to share their music with our listeners” says KMZT’s Michael Levine.

The broadcast will feature the premiere of “Sayuri’s Theme” from “Memoirs of a Geisha,” Eric Korngold's “Kings Row,” Alex North's “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Ralph Vaughan Williams' “Scott of the Antarctic” with Soprano Renée Burkett, and John Scott's “Greystoke - Legend of Tarzan,” and the world premiere of a new symphonic suite adapted from the critically acclaimed Scott score for Peter Snell and Charlton Heston's “Antony and Cleopatra,” with special guests Samantha Eggar, Michael York, and Alan Mandell, reciting selections from Shakespeare's play.

For more than thirty years, conductor John Scott has been regarded as one of the finest composers working internationally in films today, having collaborated with the foremost producers and directors including Richard Donner, Mark Damon, Hugh Hudson, Norman Jewison, Irvin Kershner, Daniel Petrie, Roger Spottiswoode, and Charlton Heston, among others. Frequently associated with other well-known Hollywood composers, including Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams, he has created a body of work that is some of the finest music ever written for film. Scott worked with Beatles producer George Martin, recording with such artists as Tom Jones, Cilla Black, and The Hollies. As His first film score, “A Study in Terror” led to music for almost 100 films, among them “Antony and Cleopatra,” “North Dallas Forty,” “The Final Countdown,” “Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan,” “King Kong Lives,” “Shoot to Kill,” “Lionheart”, and a series of scores for documentaries of Jacques Cousteau. He has conducted many of the world's finest orchestras, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony  Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and several of Europe's leading orchestras, including the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Budapest Opera Orchestra, the Lubliana Radio Orchestra and the Prague Philharmonic.

105.1 KMZT is the last Independently owned radio station in Southern California and is the number one classical music station in the Western United States. For over 46 years KMZT’s goal has been to serve the cultural community in Southern California.  They are live and local every day, delivering extraordinary works of orchestral music in a way that’s  approachable, relevant and without pretense. They feature music ranging from the classical repertoire to the finest in film scores, and artists from the legendary to those they believe will soon be. K-Mozart is committed to providing classical music for today through preserving the past, supporting the present and fostering the future.

Hollywood Symphony Orchestra’s concerts are presented by the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra Society. Dedicated to preserving and presenting timeless works by contemporary composers of film and television music in a setting worthy of their creative gifts and talents, the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra Society honors an art-form too rarely heard to its full dramatic effects on the concert stage. The Hollywood Symphony Orchestra Society is pleased to bring these exquisite concerts featuring symphonic film and television to our community. In addition to its concerts, the HSOS is working to set up activities involving interaction between schools, the orchestra and a variety of multimedia projects to help their students explore and understand the concept and value of music for film and providing mentoring from masters of the art to emerging film composers.  For more information, please visit www.hollywoodsymphonyorchestra.org or email info@hsos.org

Editors, Please Note:
Sunday, August 20  at 8:00 pm
KMZT’s Broadcast  of the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra’s Inaugural Concert
Hollywood Symphony Orchestra
Cantori Domino
John Scott, conductor

Where:            105.1 FM K-Mozart
Date/Time:         Sunday, August 20, at 8:00 pm
Additional Info:    www.hollywoodsymphonyorchestra.org

LOGAN'S RUN "The Dome" - Jerry Goldsmith
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA "Sayuri's Theme" - John Williams (world premiere)
GREYSTOKE: LEGEND OF TARZAN - Suite - John Scott
 
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE -  "Theme" - Alex North
DEATH IN VENICE - "Adagietto from Symphony No. 5" Gustav Mahler
PETER GUNN  - "Theme" - Henry Mancini
 
KINGS ROW "Main Title"  - Erich Korngold
SCOTT OF THE ANTARCTIC -  "Symphonia Antartica" - Ralph Vaughan Williams, with Soprano Renée Burkett
(EXCERPTS FROM) ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA -"Symphonic Suite" - by John Scott, with narration by Samantha Eggar, Michael York and Alan Mandell.

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Composer John Scott, the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra's artistic director and conductor, has just completed his "Oceanic Sketches," to be performed in Dorset, UK on August 5th.  Scott says the idea of oceanic sketches came out of his association with Jacques Cousteau. Written in 4 movements, this work is composed for a string quintet and wind quintet, in other words a tentet, which is quite an unusual combination in the realm of chamber music. Maestro Scott will be returning to the Los Angeles area in mid-August to prepare for the October 7 Gala Concert at UCLA.