HOLLYWOOD BOWL ORCHESTRA
The current iteration of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra was formed in 1990 by Ernest Fleischmann and John Mauceri, in partnership with Philips Records, to augment the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s summer season at the Bowl. We recorded 14 CDs for Philips from 1991 to 1996.
The standard orchestral heavy lifting was and is done by the Phil. The HBO is focused on popular music, Broadway, film music and concert music by composers usually associated with those genres. We would usually perform a semi-staged musical each summer, occasionally an opera. We toured Japan every other year for a while and toured Brazil once.
I loved this gig! What I loved most was we treated every genre we performed seriously and with respect; the HBO recorded catalogue reflects that. That is not always the case with other orchestras. I was there from day one until I retired in 2014. Here are some tracks we did.
The standard orchestral heavy lifting was and is done by the Phil. The HBO is focused on popular music, Broadway, film music and concert music by composers usually associated with those genres. We would usually perform a semi-staged musical each summer, occasionally an opera. We toured Japan every other year for a while and toured Brazil once.
I loved this gig! What I loved most was we treated every genre we performed seriously and with respect; the HBO recorded catalogue reflects that. That is not always the case with other orchestras. I was there from day one until I retired in 2014. Here are some tracks we did.
Arnold Schoenberg : Fanfare for a Bowl Concert, on motifs from Gurrelieder
John Williams: The Witches Of Eastwick - The Devil's Dance (Denis Wick Straight Mute!)
Jerry Goldsmith: Main Theme & March of the Klingons – Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Eric Korngold: The Adventures Of Robin Hood - Battle, Victory & Epilogue
Franz Waxman/John Mauceri: - Sunset Boulevard
Max Steiner: King Kong - Overture
Alfred Newman: Overture to How to Marry a Millionaire
Overture from "That's Entertainment! III"
Irving Berlin: Patriotic Overture
Miklós Rózsa: Madame Bovary - Waltz
J. Strauss II, Arr. D. Tiomkin – Main Title and Wiener Blut Waltzes from The Great Waltz
Richard Rodgers: Carousel Suite
Richard Rodgers: Slaughter on 10th Avenue
Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Harold Arlen: The Wizard Of Oz - Concert Suite
Authur Bliss: Things to Come Suite, ed. John Mauceri
Duke Ellington: Harlem
In November 1996, the HBO traveled to Brazil and performed two public concerts in Rio de Janeiro and Saõ Paulo. Huell Howser accompanied us on this brief tour and, shortly thereafter, broadcast this on his PBS show, Visiting. Huell managed to stick the camera in my face ca. 17:55.
On August 22, 1998, KCOP Television broadcast the Great American Concert – Live from the Hollywood Bowl. John Mauceri won his second Emmy as "On Camera Performer" for this live broadcast. (It's YouTube; how long it stays up remains to be seen.)