Composer Patrick Doyle counts “Cinderella,” “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” and “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” among the films he has scored. From Saturday, the two-time Oscar nominee (for …
counts “Cinderella,” “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” and “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” among the films he has scored. From Saturday, the two-time Oscar nominee will have another credit to add to his already-lengthy resume: composing the music forIt is a gig that will cement his place in the annals of history, joining fellow royal coronation composers including Handel and Elgar .
It turns out that Doyle and the King have what he describes as a “close professional friendship” that dates back to the late 1980s, when disaster struck during the opening night of Kenneth Branagh’s production of “Twelfth Night” at Riverside Studios in London. Doyle was conducting the production’s orchestra as well as accompanying on piano .
Doyle has composed marches before, for “Cinderella” and “Harry Potter,” but in this case, he says, the work was more challenging. Not only due to the nature of the occasion but because a film provides a starting point from which to begin writing music: “You have imagery and the narrative and the actors and the whole cut and the look of the picture and the feeling and the tone.”
“Like an overture you would hear before an opera gives you a sense of what’s coming, or a musical theatre piece, it tells a story and hopefully reflects aspects of King Charles’s character,” Doyle explains.
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