Description

The Red Room Orchestra, under the direction of bandleader Marc Capelle, present an evening of the best of Wes Anderson’s soundtracks, from Bottle Rocket to Rushmore, and The Royal Tenenbaums to Isle of Dogs, featuring the films’ iconic original score cues combined with rock, pop, jazz and classical songs featured on the soundtracks, with everything from Zoot Sims and The Clash to Ravel and The Kinks.

Members of the ensemble include Marc Capelle (American Music Club), Yuka C. Honda (Cibo Matto), Toby Dammit (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Iggy Pop), Hether Fortune (Wax Idols), Bart Davenport (Bart & The Bedazzled) Allyson Baker (Dirty Ghosts), Tom Ayres (Persephone’s Bees), Karina Denike (Dance Hall Crashers), Robin MacMillan (Aoife O’Donovan), Ben Goldberg (New Klezmer Trio), Scott Larson (Dizzy Gillespie Band) and Eli Crews (Beulah). The string quartet will feature the talents of Dina Maccabee, Alisa Rose, Mazz Swift and Jess Ivry. Special guests include comedian and singer Margaret Cho (“The Masked Singer”), singer Hether Fortune (Wax Idols), comedian and musician Dave Hill (Valley Lodge) and acclaimed jazz trumpeter Steven Bernstein (Sex Mob)

Formed by San Francisco producer and multi-instrumentalist Marc Capelle in 2017, the Red Room Orchestra is a collective of popular, jazz, classical, and electronic composers and performers who’ve played and recorded alongside the Bad Seeds, the Plastic Ono Band, Cibo Matto, Oingo Boingo, Sonic Youth, CAKE, American Music Club, Lou Harrison, the Steve Reich Ensemble, the Nels Cline Singers, Rodriguez, Iggy Pop, Tune-Yards, Bill Frisell, and more. They’ve offered live renderings of the music of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, reinterpretations of the soundtracks of Wes Anderson’s Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums, musical accompaniment for a live read of Planes, Trains & Automobiles, and for SFFILM they composed and performed original scores for the short films from Stephen Parr’s Oddball Films archive. The Red Room Orchestra projects are co-curated and produced by SF Sketchfest’s David Owen.