"A CLOCKWORK ORANGE" with Live Beethoven

PKWproductions presents the final "Music and A Movie" event of 2008 at Alamo Drafthouse, The Malcolm Mcdowell Masterpiece "A CLOCKWORK ORANGE" along with BASS Beethoven, 6 Pieces all featuring Basses and written by or inspired by Ludwig Van Beethoven. The series that has included "Amadeus," "Immortal Beloved," "Gone with the Wind," "The Red Violin," and a popular annual Halloween event, finally brings Stanley Kubrick's 1971 cult masterpiece back to life with live music all dedicated to Ludwig Van Beethoven and all centered around Mr. Waddle's instrument, the bass. The film has been requested by hundreds of fans.
The ultra-violent mayhem of the movie will be both accented and contrasted in the music of the intermission and pre-movie concerts. The music will include Waddle's own dadaist " Paraphrase Metamorphosis on Beethoven's Violin Concerto" for Solo Bass and his ultra-lyrical " Fantasy-Distillation-Aria on The Second Movement of Beethoven's Piano Concerto #5" for bass and cello. The titanic grandeur of Beethoven will be heard at the start of the pre-movie concert with the world's first hearing of an arrangement of Beethoven's towering "Egmont" overture in a version for Violin, Bass and Piano - lighter Beethoven will be featured in a Haydn-esque movement for bass and violin and the encore after the $150 trivia question - the winner will claim a special surprise.
A Clockwork Orange, Dir. Stanley Kubrick (1971)Teenage miscreant Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell) wanders aimlessly amid a bleak, futuristic urban landscape. Along with his fellow thugs, he drinks drugged milk and listens to Beethoven -- that is, when he's not stealing or raping or beating people in nihilistic orgies of violence. A Clockwork Orange, based on Anthony Burgess' novel, is as powerful as when it was released in 1971. The promotional tagline for the film read, "Being the adventures of a young man... who couldn't resist pretty girls... or a bit of the old ultra-violence... went to jail, was re-conditioned... and came out a different young man... or was he?" The film won Academy Awards for Best Director (Stanley Kubrick), Best Film Editing (Bill Butler), Best Picture, and Best Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium by Stanley Kubrick).