Randy Newman wasn’t well-known as a film composer in the early 1980s, despite picking up an Oscar nomination for Ragtime (1981). But with his score for The Natural, Newman penned a score that beautifully complemented this iconic baseball movie. Replete with jazzy period elements and Copland-influenced Americana, the score’s tentpole is an inspiration theme that […]
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The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour – Michael Giacchino
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. Michael Giacchino’s first compositional job was for – video games! After graduating from the school […]
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The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour: Erich Korngold and the Sound of the Swashbuckler
Erich Wolfgang Korngold was much more than a film composer. The Austrian-born composer premiered his first cantata in 1906, at the age of nine, and was praised at an early age by the likes of Mahler, Richard Strauss, and Puccini. By the 1930s, Korngold’s reputation earned him an invitation to Hollywood to adapt Mendelssohn’s music […]
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The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour: The Music of Film Noir, Part II
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. One of the our popular episodes of the SSSH was our show on the music […]
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The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour – Henry Mancini
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: Disasters!
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. Disaster movies are almost as old as movies themselves. Silent films like Fire! (1901) and […]
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The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour – Alan Silvestri
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. As a student at the Berklee School of Music, Alan Silvestri had his sights set […]
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The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour – Oscars: The 1950s
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. Film music of the 1950s ran the gamut from cynical to epic. For every Ben […]
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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 […]