Composer Max Richter’s Space 
Zombies Score Praised at Cannes

Composer Max Richter’s “eerily somber” score for the space-zombie film The Last Days on Mars won praise recently at the Cannes International Film Festival. The film opens this fall. Richter has scored 37 films and contributed to such soundtracks as Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island. HisThe Four Seasons Recomposed offers a twist on the Vivaldi classic, and the CD topped the Billboard charts. The Four Seasons Recomposedreceives its Midwest premiere with violinist Daniel Hope and the Chicago Philharmonic on June 23.