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01/21/2022 |
Danny Elfman went from being a singer in a New Wave band to composing scores for big budget Hollywood movies, and we'll hear some of his work on this week's Film Music Friday. Among others, we'll feature music from Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Batman, Midnight Run, Spider-Man and more.
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01/14/2022 |
This week on Film Music Friday it's When Aliens Attack! We'll hear themes from some classic - and a few not-so-classic - "alien invasion" movies, including The Thing, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Alien, the Quartermass films, Transformers, Independence Day...and even Devil Girl from Mars(!).
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01/07/2022 |
This week on Film Music Friday it's the National Philharmonic, a recording orchestra that devoted itself largely to classic film scores in the 1970s and '80s. We'll hear excerpts from Lost Horizon, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Airport, Harry Potter and more.
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12/31/2021 |
This week's Film Music Friday celebrates the music of B-movies. These low budget, bottom-of-the-bill epics first appeared in the 1930s and were still being made in the '70s. We'll hear music from such classics of the B-picture as The Alligator People, Lost Continent, Tormented, Missile to the Moon and others.
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12/17/2021 |
Celebrate the season on Film Music Friday with themes from some favorite Christmas movies, including Miracle on 34th Street, It's a Wonderful Life, The Bishop's Wife, Home Alone, The Polar Express and more!
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12/10/2021 |
This week's Film Music Friday features music from the films of Audrey Hepburn, including Roman Holiday, Charade, Funny Face, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Nun's Story and more.
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12/10/2021 |
This week's Film Music Friday features music from the films of Audrey Hepburn, including Roman Holiday, Charade, Funny Face, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Nun's Story and more.
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12/03/2021 |
Alan Silvestri wrote his first film score at the age of 21. Since then he's gone on to compose music for films like Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, The Avengers, The Abyss and many more. We'll hear excerpts from those films and more on this week's Film Music Friday.
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11/27/2021 |
Since 1900 there have been over 400 screen adaptations of Shakespeare. On this week's Film Music Friday we'll hear just a few, including Ennio Morricone's theme for a 1912 version of Richard III, Dimitri Shostakovich's music for Hamlet and Patrick Doyle's epic score for Henry V, among others.
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11/19/2021 |
It's common nowadays to hear film music performed in concert by symphony orchestras. However, in the 1930s and '40s, most symphony conductors and critics looked down on film music, so it was rarely recorded or performed in public. On this week's Film Music Friday, we'll hear works that transcended their original film and are now frequently performed in concert, including excerpts from The Adventures of Robin Hood, Spellbound, Bridge on the River Kwai and E.T.
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