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08/05/2022 |
This week on Film Music Friday we're hearing the music of Bond, James Bond. Rather than the enormously popular songs that have opened most 007 movies, we'll focus instead on the orchestral scores created for the films by composers like John Barry, David Arnold, Marvin Hamlisch, Hans Zimmer and others, including themes from Dr. No, Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice, The Living Daylights, the most recent Bond film, No Time to Die, and more.
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07/29/2022 |
This week on Film Music Friday, we're hearing music from the great fantasy films. Whether it's riding a magic carpet in Thief of Bagdad...finding a fabled lost city in She...or the mystical circus of Dr. Lao, we'll take you to some mighty strange and magical places.
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07/22/2022 |
Composer Michael Giacchino burst onto the scene in 2004 with The Incredibles, and since then has provided music for several Hollywood blockbusters, including Rogue One, Doctor Strange, Jurassic World and Star Trek, plus numerous Pixar films. We'll hear from all those and more on this week's Film Music Friday.
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07/15/2022 |
On this week's Film Music Friday we're featuring the work of three young film composers - Justin Hurwitz, Pinar Toprak and Ramin Djawadi. We'll hear music from La La Land, First Man, Captain Marvel, The Lightkeepers, Game of Thrones, Eternals and more.
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07/08/2022 |
Once typecast in gangster roles, Humphrey Bogart eventually transcended his status as a movie star to become an international cultural icon. This week on Film Music Friday we'll hear some memorable themes from Bogart's films, including Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Caine Mutiny and more.
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07/01/2022 |
With the Fourth of July upon us, it seems like a good time to feature music from patriotic films. This week we'll hear music from Captain America, Independence Day, Air Force One, Patton, Glory and more.
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06/24/2022 |
The dictionary defines "epic" as something that's heroic, majestic, impressively great. In Hollywood an epic is a movie that's big - really big. And a big movie needs big music. This week's Film Music Friday examines the music of epic films, with examples from Ben-Hur, King Kong, The Sea Hawk, The Man Who Would Be King and The Avengers, among others.
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06/17/2022 |
On this week's Film Music Friday we're hearing the Golden Age of the Science Fiction. Our fascination with the future has made science fiction a staple of the cinema since silent movies. From space invaders and forbidden planets to time travel, sentient robots and atomic mutations run amok, almost anything is possible in the science fiction film. We'll hear music from Metropolis, Things to Come, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Destination Moon and more!
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06/10/2022 |
Carter Burwell didn't aspire to become a composer, much less a film composer. However, filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen gave him an opportunity to write the score for their first film, Blood Simple, in 1994 and he went on to write music for most of the Coen brothers' films. On this week's Film Music Friday we'll hear Burwell's music from Fargo; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri; True Grit; The Big Lebowski and more.
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06/03/2022 |
It’s not uncommon today for us hear film music played in concert by symphony orchestras. But it wasn’t always the case. When the concept of creating a synchronized score for a motion picture was still a new thing…most music critics and symphony conductors didn’t take it seriously.
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