Now we come to the second head-scratcher of the evening: The listing of the individual cues. The film order might not be correct, but it makes sense in the progression of the suite, opening calmly and then building into a frenetic action set-piece, so far so good. Watching the actual show go on, clears things up: Howard actually performs one long suite, which consists of the listed cues. The sequencing of the films is totally out of order and this layout makes it look like the whole concert is really “Hunger Games”-focused, which, admittedly, would make some sense, given the popularity of that franchise, but it’s weird nonetheless. The booklet handed out makes it look like they are playing three separate suites: one for “Catching Fire”, one for “Mockingjay Part 2” and one for “The Hunger Games”. But take his “Hunger Games”-suite, for example. This works absolutely fine for, let’s say “Peter Pan”, which was a suite made up out of the pieces mentioned in the program. For example, each film gets listed as its own, with the individual pieces from that film listed below. The real issue with the program is the way they listed the chosen pieces. Of course, there was the predictable banter going on “Wait? Where is this? Why aren’t they playing that? Might this be the encore?” and while this is obviously mostly just personal preference there are still a few omissions that deserve some explaining. What a better place to start this tour off at? While looking for our seats, we finally had a chance to take look into the program and this is where things get a bit mind-boggling. My first time ever in the gorgeous Royal Albert Hall. Then, on November 3rd of 2017, the day arrived. Read also: Watch James Newton Howard's scores performed live at Hollywood in Vienna
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