(MENAFN- Hilal Co) Jonathan Broxton, a veteran music critic with Movie Music UK, has included the Pharaoh's Golden Parade music by Mohamed Elhusseini in his choices for best works of 2018.
Broxton is a Los Angeles-based British film music reviewer who for over the past two decades has written reviews published on Movie Music UK, an internationally renowned online platform dedicated to monitoring and writing about new developments in film music.
Each year, Broxton, who is also a member of the International Film Music Critics Association, sums up the year and picks his favourite works from the film industry from all around the globe.
As Broxton explains in his review, "the whole thing was a grand, spectacular celebration of Egyptian culture, featuring light and laser displays, and parades of men and women in traditional dress accompanying these ancient rulers to their new resting places."
Speaking about the United Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Egyptian conductor Nader Abbasi, Broxton calls Elhusseini’s music a "spectacular orchestral and choral glory, bold, dramatic, intense, thematically rich, and mesmerizing when combined with the visuals of these long-dead kings and queens making their journey through contemporary Cairo. There are layered vocals with men and women intoning in superb call-and-response fashion, vivid cello ostinato, swirling string figures, bold explosions of brass. The music becomes magical, sweeping, almost operatic, as the convoy of pharaohs circle the obelisk, and rises to a rich and epic version of the theme heard at the beginning of the work as the pharaohs disappear from view. It’s all just utterly magnificent; there are echoes of Miklos Rozsa, Alfred Newman, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, and several others echoing through the work. It’s that good."
Receiving the attention of an international critic who offered Elhusseini his 'Special Award', the Egyptian composers is placed next to several other names picked by the British film music reviewer.
Broxton gave Score of the Year to a new take on the ballet Coppelia written by Anglo-Italian composer Maurizio Malagnini, Composer of the Year to James Newton Howard, Breakthrough Composer of the Year to Spanish composer Óscar Martin Leanizbarrutia, and Best Original Song to Tribulation from the comedy show Schimigadoon written by Cinco Paul and performed by Kristen Chenoweth.
Born in 1096, Elhusseini is an Egyptian film and television series score composer. His career has involved composing music for a number of successful films, including Hysteria, Elfeel El-Azraq (The Blue Elephant, 2019), The Treasure (2017), The Treasure 2 (2019), among others.
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