Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets^TM in Concert

📍 This event takes place at Powell Hall

🕒 3 hours, 20 minutes (including intermission)

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Program

Justin Freer, conductor

John Williams Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

About this Concert

Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter™ at the start of his second year at Hogwarts™. Adventure and danger await when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber of Secrets has been opened. Saving Hogwarts will require all of Harry, Ron, and Hermione’s magical abilities and courage. Experience Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets™ in high definition while the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra performs John Williams’ enchanting score live.

All characters and elements © & ™ Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Publishing Rights © JKR.

- John Williams scored the first three Harry Potter movies and originated the main theme that appears in all the films. For Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, he won an Academy Award for Original Score and two Grammy Awards for Best Instrumental Composition and Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture.
- Building on the score of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, here Williams introduces memorable themes for new characters like Dobby, Fawkes, Gilderoy Lockhart, and the Chamber of Secrets itself.
- To achieve the score’s unique blend of mystery, humor, and darkness, Williams used a wide range of instruments, from the celesta and harpsichord for Gilderoy Lockhart’s whimsical theme to the low strings and heavy brass for the giant spider Aragog’s suspenseful motif.