News release Public Information Office   SLU 10880   Hammond, LA 70402   phone: 985-549-2341   fax: 985-549-2061 publicinfo@selu.edu Spring 2004 news releases Public Information home News archive Contact: Christina Chapple Date: 5/11/05   Click on image for publication quality photo  LPO ECHOS COLUMBIA THEATRE’S ROOTS WITH “AN EVENING AT THE MOVIES”         HAMMOND – The May 20 performance of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra at Southeastern Louisiana University’s Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts will be a tuneful tour of popular films, echoing the days when the historic downtown theater was the community’s most popular movie house.        The pops concert, “An Evening at the Movies,” is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Columbia, 220 E. Thomas Street. Tickets are $33, Orchestra 1 and Loge; $27, Orchestra 2 and Balcony 1; $20, Orchestra 3; $19, Balcony 2. Box office hours are noon-5 p.m., weekdays.        Conducted by Michael Butterman, the LPO will lend its artistry to the melodic scores and musical themes from film favorites of yesterday and today.         The program will include “Gone With the Wind’s” sweeping theme, “Over the Rainbow” from “The Wizard of Oz,” the chilling theme from “Psycho,” memorable themes from the James Bond 007 films, and excerpts from “Chicago” and “Pirates of the Caribbean.”        The LPO’s program also will feature the "Imperial March" from “The Empire Strikes Back,” selections from “Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers,” a suite of songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber's “Phantom of the Opera,” and the march from “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”          To add to the movie house atmosphere and fun, Columbia Director Donna Gay Anderson said the evening will begin with a cartoon.         “We have chosen a genuine classic, ‘The Cat Concerto,’ winner of the 1946 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Subject,” she said.        The Joseph Barbera-William Hanna MGM cartoon featuring the popular characters Tom and Jerry has been called “one of the truly great cartoons of all time, inventive and funny, stretching outside the envelope.”  The Oscar winner is possibly Tom and Jerry's finest hour as the adversarial duo deliver the most demented piano recital on record. Tom's remarkable playing was based on the animators’ study of the fingers of the great cartoon composer, Scott Bradley, playing Liszt's “Hungarian Rhapsody.”        For additional information about the LPO’s concert, contact the Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts, 985-543-4366.