Last night a saw a performance of Planet Earth Live with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Planet Earth is a BBC produced nature series. A couple years ago there was a version of this released in US movies theaters narrated by James Earl Jones. In the live version of this almost all of the narration has been dropped and the film has been cut into thematic segments, and shown while the orchestra plays the score. The orchestra was conducted by the composer of the score, George Fenton.
It took over 2000 days filming in the field to collect film for the series, some of which involved days and days of waiting to get just the right shots. The cinematography is amazing. Seeing it with just music is even more moving than seeing it with narration. Here is a video that contains some of the Cave footage that was included in the version I saw last night. Seeing the sequence of the men parachuting into the cave without narration was a bit disconcerting. It was cut so that all of s sudden you say people falling through the air. At first it was not clear what was happening, until you see parachutes opening as they descend into the cave.
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