Film music sets the mood and helps elicit the emotional responses that make a good movie a great movie. Each week on CharlottesvilleClassical.org, The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour takes a listen to music from the wide world of film scores. t’s convenient – and easy – to lump the music of Henry Mancini (1924-1994) into […]
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The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour: Herrmann and Hitch
Film music sets the mood and helps elicit the emotional responses that make a good movie a great movie. Each week on CharlottesvilleClassical.org, The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour takes a listen to music from the wide world of film scores. Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock were both creative geniuses in their own right. But the […]
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The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour: The Music of Film Noir
Film music sets the mood and helps elicit the emotional responses that make a good movie a great movie. Each week on CharlottesvilleClassical.org, The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour takes a listen to music from the wide world of film scores. Springing from a fertile mix of hard-boiled crime fiction and German expressionist cinematography, film noir […]
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The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour: Michael Kamen
Film music sets the mood and helps elicit the emotional responses that make a good movie a great movie. Each week on CharlottesvilleClassical.org, The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour takes a listen to music from the wide world of film scores. This week we’ll be listening to music from American composer Michael Kamen (1948-2003). Kamen left […]
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The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour: Jerry Goldsmith
Film music sets the mood and helps elicit the emotional responses that make a good movie a great movie. Each week on CharlottesvilleClassical.org, The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour takes a listen to music from the wide world of film scores. This week we turn our focus to American composer Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004). Goldsmith left a […]
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The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour: Max Steiner
Max Steiner (1888-1971) composed the music for over 300 films, winning three Academy Awards along the way. But if he’d stopped at one, he’d still be remembered. Prior to King Kong (1933), the role of music in “talkies” was uncertain. Afterwards, it was clear that a film soundtrack should be an integral part of the […]
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Great Movies, Great Music: 1959
Mar 23 Written By Ken Nail Some years deliver a bumper crop of great films, and 1959 was one of those years. The gamut of great films ranges from one of Hitchcock’s best (North by Northwest), through a classic western (Rio Bravo), French new wave (The 400 Blows), to Hollywood epic (Ben Hur). Cary Grant takes […]
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The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour: Hans Zimmer
You may know him as the composer for films like Dune, Inception, Gladiator, The Lion King, The Pirates of the Caribbean series, and more. But in the late 1970s Hans Zimmer played keyboards for a variety of new-age bands, including The Buggles, best known for Video Killed the Radio Star – the first music video […]