Matinees at the J-Funny Girl
In this bittersweet, classic musical drama, the vibrant and beautiful young Fanny Brice (Barbra Streisand) starts out as a bit player on the New York City vaudeville stage, but works her way up to stardom on Broadway. Valued for her vocal and comedic talents by the renowned theater impresario Florenz Ziegfeld (Walter Pidgeon), Fanny thrives, but her relationship with her suave, imprisoned businessman husband, Nick Arnstein (Omar Sharif), is another story.
2:00pm Popcorn in the lobby
2:30pm Movie starts. Run time 2h 25m
5:15pm Special guest, Jonathan Allentoff, for post movie talk and Q&A
Join Jonathan Allentoff after the movie!
Conductor/composer Jonathan Allentoff will share his insights on the film score for Funny Girl by Jewish composers Jule Styne, Bob Merrill, and Walter Scharf and the Academy-Award winning performance by Barbra Streisand. He will discuss his exploration of the original piano manuscripts and the process of restoring, arranging, and conducting the song People for performances in Rochester and Los Angeles. A Q & A will be included.
Jonathan Allentoff is the music director of the Brockport Symphony, Greece Community, and Temple Beth El Orchestras, associate conductor, principal arranger, and principal viola of the Brighton Symphony Orchestra, President of the Greece Performing Arts Society (GPAS), director of the Eastman Summer Studio Orchestra and Eastman Klezmer Ensemble at ECMS at the Eastman School of Music, Director of Music and the Sobel Family Center for the Arts and Chair of Encore at Hillel School, composition mentor and conductor for the LA Inception Orchestra, and the founder of Allentoff Music (ASCAP).
He recently conducted the New York American String Teachers Association Orchestra at the NYSSMA Conference, presented at the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers (ASMAC) Seminar on the film and television scores of his mentor Van Alexander, conducted the premiere of his arrangements celebrating 90 Years of 20th Century Fox and performed as violin soloist at the ASMAC Celebration with vocal artist LC Powell and the Flight 584 Big Band at the Mayflower Club in North Hollywood, presented a lecture on Studio Music at the APME Conference at The University of Memphis, directed the All-County Orchestra at the Calkins Road Performing Arts Center, conducted the Los Angeles Inception Orchestra studio recording session at Village Studios in Westwood, CA and the orchestral session at UCLA, and composed the score for the documented drama, Love Letters from the Cold War.
His works and licensed arrangements have been performed by ensembles across the globe, including the Pittsburgh, Knoxville, Holyoke, Muncie, Oklahoma, Redlands, Salina, Texas, and Vermont Symphony Orchestras and the Sydney Opera House. He holds a Master of Arts degree specializing in Music, Interdisciplinary Arts, Education, and Technology from Stony Brook University, and he received the Dr. Deborah C. Hecht Award for his MA thesis. He holds a Bachelor of Science, Summa Cum Laude, in Interdisciplinary Arts and Music from SUNY Brockport. He is an active member and clinician for APME, ASCAP, ASMAC, ASTA, CODA, NAfME, and NYSSMA, and he serves on the Executive Board of NYASTA and the LA Inception Orchestra Board of Directors.