Dale Roushia loves "The Godfather." It's his all-time favorite movie.
Dale Roushia loves 'The Godfather.' It's his all-time favorite movie.
'I watched it all the time,' he said.
He and his daughter — Bridget Roushia — decided to watch the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra play the music from the classic movie Saturday. They were two among hundreds who attended the opening night of 'The Godfather' at The Victory.
The iconic, Oscar-winning film directed by Francis Ford Coppola tells the tale of a 1940s New York mafia family and their struggles to stay on top. Nino Rota's score helped illustrate some of the most haunting and pivotal scenes in American film.
Bridget Roushia was in her high school marching band, and it helped her father gain an interest in movie scores.
'I didn't know I would like that type of music, but I sure did,' Dale Roushia said.
Bridget Roushia said she saw the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra play along side 'Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl' last year and enjoyed watching both the orchestra and the movie together.
Compared to last year's 'Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,' Music Director Alfred Savia said, 'The Godfather' score is a little more spread out and uses several different sections of their orchestra on their own during different parts of the film.
Some scenes only needed the orchestra to play five seconds to end a scene, while other scenes, such as the opening wedding sequence, take several minutes. The orchestra also plays a variety of music for the movie. There's Christmas music, Italian wedding songs and some more chilling music for the moment a horse's head is revealed in a bed.
Evan Johnson joined his grandparents — Philip and Janice Kinsey — to see Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra play the score to 'The Godfather.' Johnson, a University of Southern Indiana student, said he has friends who played in bands, and it was something he was always interested in.
None of the three have had the chance to see an orchestra play the background music to a movie before.
It will be Philip Kinsey's first time seeing the movie in its entirety.
'I've never seen it on the big screen,' he said.
Sunday's performance will be the last night for the orchestra's Pops 5 series.
