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Charlie Gray Anthony Hopkins isn’t just an Oscar-winning actor — for decades, he’s been composing music in addition to his acting roles. The “Silence of the Lambs” actor has signed with Decca Classics for a new recording project encompassing more than six decades of original compositions.
Conducted by Gustavo Dudamel and performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra, his “Life Is a Dream” album will be released on Aug. 21. The first single, “Bracken Road,” from Hopkin’s “1947: Suite for Solo Piano and Orchestra,” was released Friday. “Inspired by childhood memories of Margam, South Wales, it is a nostalgic musical portrait of the streets, meadows, farmland and mountains that surrounded his family home in the 1940s,” Decca said.
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