Kansas City Symphony: Nicholas Buc - Skyfall In Concert

Kansas City Symphony: Nicholas Buc - Skyfall In Concert at Helzberg Hall - Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

The Kansas City Symphony will perform the score to Skyfall live while the complete film plays on screen, turning a thriller into a concert-hall experience. Daniel Craig's Bond faces Javier Bardem's Silva—a cyberterrorist and rogue British agent—in a story that careens through Istanbul, Macau and London before MI6 itself becomes the target. Watching it with a full orchestra changes what you hear.

Thomas Newman's music weaves tension and melody through the entire film, and Nicholas Buc conducts the Kansas City Symphony's live performance as the film plays. You can follow Bond's peril on screen while hearing Newman's score take shape in the hall. Sam Mendes directs a pursuit with high stakes; the orchestra gives those stakes a musical dimension.

Silva's history as a British agent makes his pursuit of MI6 more than a routine villain's plot. Bond faces an adversary who knows the organization from the inside. A Bond film never lacks spectacle, but adding the Symphony gives the story a different kind of power. With Newman's music performed alongside the film, the danger and the score can hold your attention at once.

At Helzberg Hall in Kansas City, this March concert puts the Symphony alongside Bond's confrontation with Silva. Revisit Bond's showdown with Silva as the Symphony plays the score live; get tickets for Skyfall in Concert.