The score to ‘Black Panther’ will be performed live-to-picture by at the Hollywood Bowl.
“Black Panther” was an international cultural phenomenon and the Marvel movie’s Oscar-winning score, by Swedish composer Ludwig Göransson, was equally thrilling for its unique blend of African influences, traditional orchestra and modern production techniques. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday (Sept.10 – 12), that music will be performed live-to-picture by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Senegalese singer Baaba Maal and an ensemble of African drummers at the Hollywood Bowl. The experience will be “an emotional rollercoaster,” Göransson concedes, especially considering last year’s death of star Chadwick Boseman, who is on screen much of the time as T’Challa, the Wakandan monarch who doubles as the superhero Black Panther. Göransson had been urging Disney and Marvel to undertake this for some time, and when the Philharmonic agreed several months ago, “I was thrilled,” he says. “What was most important to me was that we get the right players to play this. We have the best orchestra in the world, now let’s get the African musicians who played on the score.
