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Our ‘Huckleberry Friend’: 6 Highlights From Henry Mancini Centennial Celebration Concert at Hollywood Bowl
Here are six highlights from the Henry Mancini 100th Celebration at the Hollywood Bowl on June 23, featuring Michael Buble, Cynthia Erivo and more.
Saxophonist Dave Koz opened the show with the whimsical “Baby Elephant Walk,” from Hatari!, and performed the encore number, a taut and muscular version of “The Peter Gunn Theme.” The latter theme puts the lie to the notion that Mancini only composed “pretty music.” Wilkins conducted the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra through a set which also included, in addition to the pieces already named, songs from the films Charade, 10, That’s Life and The Great Waldo Pepper and TV themes from The Thorn Birds, Newhart, Hotel and Remington Steele. Among the classics to be performed are the themes from The Pink Panther and Peter Gunn, joined by gems from the lounge music and space-age pop genres Mancini helped inspire, including pieces by Burt Bacharach, Les Baxter and Juan García Esquivel.
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