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Barbie
Music by Aqua, Andrew Wyatt, Mark Ronson, Dua Lipa, Billie Eilish, Richard Strauss et al.
Arr. June Yoo
Conducted by Maggie Schnyer ′24
ENCORE: Can You Hear the Music (from Oppenheimer)
Music by Ludwig Göransson
Arr. Andy Wong
Conducted by Mitchell Dubin ′25
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ABOUT THE WORK
DPops is excited to open the 2023-2024 season with the biggest hit of the year: Greta Gerwig’s Barbie.
One day in the perfect matriarchal world of Barbieland, Barbie wakes up with bad breath, cellulite, and flat feet, triggering an existential crisis and sending her on a mission to the real world to find a cure to her imperfections. Unexpectedly, she is joined by her admirer Ken, who is determined to earn Barbie’s approval by all means. However, all goes wrong when Ken discovers patriarchy and brings it back to Barbieland. Upon finding out that her friends and colleagues have been indoctrinated by the new social order and—perhaps even more outrageously—that Ken has turned her Barbie Dream House into the Mojo Dojo Casa House, Barbie sets off to restore a Barbie-led society, realize what it means to be human, and learn what she was made for along the way,
Watch DPops slay as we journey to Barbieland and back with the opening to Richard Strauss’ “Also Sprach Zarathustra,” Aqua’s “Barbie Girl,” Dua Lipa’s “Dance The Night,” Ryan Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken,” Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?,” and a DPops original finale to take you through the whole adventure all over again.
~ June Yoo ′25
If you liked this concert, please drop a like + subscribe to our channel! Thank you ♥
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Barbie
Music by Aqua, Andrew Wyatt, Mark Ronson, Dua Lipa, Billie Eilish, Richard Strauss et al.
Arr. June Yoo
Conducted by Maggie Schnyer ′24
ENCORE: Can You Hear the Music (from Oppenheimer)
Music by Ludwig Göransson
Arr. Andy Wong
Conducted by Mitchell Dubin ′25
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ABOUT THE WORK
DPops is excited to open the 2023-2024 season with the biggest hit of the year: Greta Gerwig’s Barbie.
One day in the perfect matriarchal world of Barbieland, Barbie wakes up with bad breath, cellulite, and flat feet, triggering an existential crisis and sending her on a mission to the real world to find a cure to her imperfections. Unexpectedly, she is joined by her admirer Ken, who is determined to earn Barbie’s approval by all means. However, all goes wrong when Ken discovers patriarchy and brings it back to Barbieland. Upon finding out that her friends and colleagues have been indoctrinated by the new social order and—perhaps even more outrageously—that Ken has turned her Barbie Dream House into the Mojo Dojo Casa House, Barbie sets off to restore a Barbie-led society, realize what it means to be human, and learn what she was made for along the way,
Watch DPops slay as we journey to Barbieland and back with the opening to Richard Strauss’ “Also Sprach Zarathustra,” Aqua’s “Barbie Girl,” Dua Lipa’s “Dance The Night,” Ryan Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken,” Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?,” and a DPops original finale to take you through the whole adventure all over again.
~ June Yoo ′25
![Hans Zimmer Medley (ft. Interstellar, Inception, Dark Knight) - DPops
BRAAAWWWMMM: A HANS ZIMMER MEDLEY
Arranged by Bettina Cheung SM16, Kevin Nguyen ES16, Linus Lu DC19
Conducted by Harry Kane, BR18
Performed at DPops Finds Love in Battell Chapel on March 4, 2017
0:00 Flying Drone - Interstellar
0:42 No Time for Caution - Interstellar
1:19 Is She With You? - Batman v Superman
2:35 Like a Dog Chasing Cars - The Dark Knight
3:53 Im Not a Hero - The Dark Knight
4:46 Mombasa - Inception
6:39 Dream is Collapsing - Inception
8:20 Escape - The Little Prince
10:45 Time - Inception
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This medley is affectionately named for the heavy brass blasts featured in the score for Inception which became ubiquitous across movie trailers as well as subsequently earning an iconic place in DPops YouTube history. Alongside this intense drama, we sought to exhibit the vast emotional range of Hans Zimmer’s work, from the brooding undercurrents of The Dark Knight to the childlike innocence of The Little Prince.
We begin with the ethereal and delicate theme “Flying Drone” from Interstellar representing the wonder of space exploration and Cooper’s love for his daughter, Murph. However, as our intrepid travelers journey on to distant stars, they encounter the mounting urgency and larger-than-life organ line of “No Time for Caution.” The drama continues to build in Wonder Woman’s percussive theme “Is She With You?” from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, slipping into Batman’s appropriately dark and moody strains of “I’m Not a Hero” from The Dark Knight. From there, we crash headlong into the high-energy percussion of the Inception chase scene “Mombasa” before slipping into the dreamy-turned-dramatic world of “Dream is Collapsing.” An interlude into the triumphantly playful “Escape” of The Little Prince is closed out by an encore from Inception. “Time” with its lush and emotional waves of melody fades to a quietly reflective duet between piano and strings.
In Hans Zimmer’s words, “I do films because I like big speakers. I like hearing things on big speakers. I’m not that interested in hearing anything on my laptop speakers. [...] I’m not saying this won’t work on little speakers. But this, you know. Go big or go home.”
Program notes by Bettina Cheung Hans Zimmer Medley (ft. Interstellar, Inception, Dark Knight) - DPops](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VqtCbZxDxs4/mqdefault.jpg)






![Davenport Pops Presents: DPops Flies Solo [December 8th, 2017]
Come join the Davenport Pops Orchestra for our Winter Concert, featuring Superman, Wicked, Home Alone, Sleigh Ride, and Star Wars!
Full program notes can be found here: https://goo.gl/Yvh2VC Davenport Pops Presents: DPops Flies Solo [December 8th, 2017]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ys5VmjcNlz8/mqdefault.jpg)


