Ahead of its UK reissue on 10 February 2017, Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, with Bernard Herrmann's score, will be performed live by the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Robert Ziegler at the Southbank Centre in London.
Also coinciding with the release of the director's new film, Silence, and the BFI's major Scorsese retrospective (Jan – Feb 2017), the Southbank Centre presents one of his most iconic works with a live score for the first ever time.
Set against a lurid cinematic vision of New York, De Niro's Travis Bickle is the taxi driver who becomes lost, isolated and alienated as he struggles to connect with the city he can't understand. Bernard Herrmann's score brings together old and new Hollywood, with brooding, shifting chords, an ominous drum beat and a soaring saxophone melody. Herrmann's glorious last film score, delivered the night before he died, provides an eloquent, nightmarish texture to Scorsese's hellish portrait of 70s Manhattan.
Presented by Southbank Centre and BFI, the performance will be introduced from the stage by Bernard Herrmann's widow, Mrs Norma Herrmann.
Back in cinemas from 10 February
