Ben Hur played yesterday and today with the Pacific Symphony in Orange County. It was a pleasure to see it play in Southern California, and of course it’s always fun to watch Stewart play as featured percussionist for 90 minutes. It’s a very energetic and powerful score, and I love to see how the audience gets fully immersed in a silent film that’s nearly 100 years old.

I workedon this show with Stewart Copeland on and off throughout 2014 while he wrote new music for the most expensive silent film ever made. I helped him with orchestrations, did all the score prep for him, and helped him manage the technical hurdles of keeping a live orchestra in sync with film for 90 minutes straight. In late 2014 it was premiered by the Virginia Symphony Orchestra as part of the Virginia Arts Festival, and it has since played in many other cities.

These two shows were at the Segerstrom Center For The Arts in Orange county, and next weekend it will play again at the The Soraya, the performing arts center at Cal State Northridge.