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Bernard Herrmann reveals the unknown with a UFO score and a sound from elsewhere.
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The score of Sodom and Gomorrah demonstrates true musicologist thinking, skillfully using stereo-types associated with musical customs from a distant historical era. NEW
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"Music does not need the cinema - but the cinema has, it seems, always needed music." Muir Mathieson
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A Golden age label and more!
Music was formed in 2002 by James Fitzpatrick, former co-founder of Silva Screen Records. Disillusioned by the downward ...
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A complex creator and an extraordinary teacher who trained renowned composers like Christopher Young and Basil Poledouris...
DAVID RAKSIN
David Raksin's is a complicated personality. It has more facets than even the circular point of view of a Picasso could concentrate into a single portrait. On the one hand Raksin is a wit, a wag, a wisecracker. He delights in puns, aphorisms, and anecdotes in which he himself is the central character. Humor gives way to indignation and sarcasm when he talks about critics who find fault with his music. For such detractors of his art, like the one who summed up the score for FOREVER
THE COMPOSER
Before the age of talking pictures, continuous music played by large orchestras, theater organs, or pianos accompanied the so-called silent films. It is thus possible to view the advent of the synchronous sound track as marking the beginning of an era in which movie music has become increasingly subordinate to...
WITH CHARLIE CHAPLIN
The new adventure began on August 8, 1935, four days after my twenty-third birthday, with a telegram from Eddie Powell, addressed to me “care Harms Inc.” in New York City. Since I was in Boston, arranging and orchestrating music for AT HOME ABROAD, a show that was in its pre-Broadway tryout, the people at Harms
DEAD AT 92
One of the most respected of all American film composers - both for his music and his celebrated wit - Raksin began his long and distinguished movie career in 1935, when he came to Hollywood to assist Charlie Chaplin with the music of MODERN TIMES. He composed music for more than 100 films, including LAURA (1944),
THE SUBJECT IN FILM MUSIC
David Raksin, was writer and host of his own KUSC program in Los Angeles, The Subject is Film Music, in the 1970s. It included tribute shows to Korngold, Steiner, Newman… who were then gone, but had live hour interviews with those Raksin could round up including Rozsa, Fielding, Friedhofer, Kaper, Mancini,
WORKING IN TV
Raksin said he accepted the assignment because executive producer Stuart Millar was an old friend. Due to the usual TV complications involving last-minute changes, Raksin had just two and a half weeks to write 35 minutes of music for a 31-piece orchestra. “I worked literally 18 to 20 hours every day. Which is what we used to do all the time - because we had this stupid...
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JEROME MOROSS’s career encompasses four spheres, Broadway, Hollywood, the Dance world and the concert hall. He is best known to some audiences as the composer of the Academy Award-nominated score for William Wyler’s epic western, The Big Country (1958)...
Over the past decade, one important composer has at last emerged strongly from the shadows of an often disturbing past: Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Few could guess that his violin concerto would become one of the mainstays of the repertoire when it was dismissed by the entire music establishment upon its premiere in 1947.
Renowned composer Alex North shunned publicity and Hollywood careerism. But he nevertheless accumulated 15 Oscar nominations and a Lifetime Achievement Oscar for his work in the film industry. And he is the first and thus far only composer to have received this honor for his music. On the fifteenth anniversary of his death, North's work in ballet, theater, symphony orchestra, television, and motion pictures continues to stand up to the toughest metric—time.
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Charles Allan Gerhardt,
had a reputation as a great conductor, record producer and musical arranger. His major work at RCA on the Classic Film Scores series earned him recognition from film music devotees of Hollywood’s Golden Age, as well as other renowned conductors of his day. Born on February 6, 1927 in Detroit, Michigan, Charles Gerhardt developed a passion for music and percussion instruments from an early age. At the age of five, he took piano lessons, and by the age of nine, had established a solid reputation as an orchestrator and composer.
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Yes, it would be hard not to recognize the artistic touch of Drew Struzan, renowned American illustrator, portrait painter and poster artist. It was for this major postal project, with the tip of his pencil and airbrush, that the artist immortalized six of the greatest American film music monsters
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The traces of their passage are made by music but also
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We arrived in Hollywood to write our music and we encountered cinema.
In the big studios, some of us became famous. Others remained anonymous. But we all developed a passion for images. The world of Hollywood cinema was a sort of smoke and mirrors But, deep down in the Mirage, there were real creators with elegant intelligence. There was certainly routine but also a real humanism. Loved the company of my friends those who were great professionals and who knew
how to tell their souls
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I always think that film music expresses what
the actor cannot show or tell. Music provides, essentially and unconsciously, a series of points of support or reference points for the spectator. It's not always apparent and you don't have to know it but it helps things work. I believe that Jean Cocteau said that good film music could give the impression of no longer knowing whether it was the music that pushed the film forward or whether it was
the film that led to the music
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Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner was born in Vienna on 10 May 1888, at a time when the Strauss family was still alive and well, but the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the end of its carefree society were already
in sight.
Among the great original myths that cinema has produced, it is appropriate to place King Kong at the top. Although the story is inspired by Beauty and the Beast, the character of the giant gorilla is a twentieth century creation, unlike Frankenstein or Dracula. Like all mythical films, King Kong has given rise to dozens of different interpretations: economic, political, sociological, philosophical or psychological. Jean-Louis Scheffen
Composers of the new era. ROY BUDD retrospective
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To say that Roy Budd was a genius artist who died too soon is correct. An incredible pianist/jazzman by birth, he remains a film music composer little known to the general public, certainly due today to the low media reach of the films he musicalized. Roy Frederick Budd died suddenly at St. Thomas's Hospital in London in his 46th year on August 7, 1993. However, he had time to offer British cinema the full measure of his talent, leaving behind him unique film scores of a incredible inventiveness !
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