Scott Dunn Orchestra Will Perform HELL TO HOLLYWOOD at The Wallis

The Scott Dunn Orchestra will complete its second year at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts with From Hell To Hollywood – Films Music's First Golden Age and the Émigré Community, their final concert this season taking place on Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 7:30 pm. In this concert, Dunn and his orchestra explore the music and influence on Hollywood of the European émigré composers of the 1930s, who were forced to flee from the Nazis.

This concert features music by Arnold Schoenberg, Max Steiner, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Franz Waxman, Dimitri Tiomkin, Bronisław Kaper, Kurt Weill, Ernest Gold and Miklós Rózsa from such films as “Gone with the Wind,” “Sunset Boulevard,” “Rear Window,” “Lili,” ”Exodus,” “Casablanca,“ “The Alamo,” “Ben-Hur,” and others.

This new ensemble led by Scott Dunn, in partnership  with The Wallis, is an orchestra comprised of many of the finest studio musicians, dedicated solely to presenting film music as first rate concert fare.  Previously, the SDO roared to prominence with its critically acclaimed inaugural concert on May 22nd, 2025  - Mancini at 100: A Celebration of the Man and His Music followed by The Hollywood Modernists: The Second Golden Age of Film Scoring on November 22, 2025 and Fabulous Films of the Seventies: Monsters, Murders, Spies, and Space on January 17, 2026, all at the Wallis.