Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) continues its series of Soundtracks Talks at the Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, with “Amadeus and the Myth of Mozart” on Wednesday, February 5 at 7 p.m. in the library’s Community Room.

Chris Collier, executive director of the Princeton Garden Theatre, and Michael Pratt, conductor of the Princeton University Orchestra (PUO), will watch and discuss excerpts of the 1984 Academy Award-winning movie Amadeus. Their conversation anticipates the Garden Theatre’s showing of the restored theatrical cut of the film the following evening, Thursday, February 6 at 7 p.m.

Collier is the executive director of Renew Theaters, a nonprofit management company that operates four nonprofit, member-supported theaters in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He has worked at Renew since 2007, starting as a manager of his hometown Ambler Theater. Over his 17 years with Renew, the company has doubled in size, both in staff and number of theaters. Collier holds degrees in musicology from Dartmouth College and the University of Oxford, where he focused his research on film music and conducting.

Pratt is now in his 47th season on the Princeton University music faculty. There he conducts the PUO, directs the Minor in Music Performance program and teaches performance classes. His career encompasses international tours with PUO and appearances with major American orchestras. His repertory extends from the 17th to the 21st centuries, in both opera and symphonic repertory. Personal honors include honorary membership in the Royal College of Music, London, and the President’s Distinguished Teaching Award. His first novel, The Copyists, includes Mozart as a character, and was published in October 2023.

There will be a brief Q&A immediately following the talk, and attendees will have the opportunity to enter a drawing to win tickets to one of the PSO’s February 8-9 performances of All Mozart with Orli Shaham. Tickets and information are available at princetonsymphony.org.

Soundtracks is free and open to the public.