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10/22/2021 |
This week, an encore broadcast of our tribute to two-time Academy Award winner Franz Waxman. Beginning as an orchestrator for film scores, he soon graduated to writing his own movie music, including scores for such films as The Bride of Frankenstein, Sunset Boulevard, A Place in the Sun, Rear Window and Peyton Place.
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10/15/2021 |
Film Music Friday goes prehistoric with an evening of themes drawn from classic dinosaur movies. We'll hear music from the original King Kong, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The Lost World, Jurassic Park and more. It's "when dinosaurs ruled the Earth"!
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10/08/2021 |
From silent comedies to modern action blockbusters, cinema has always thrived on the thrill of the chase. Catch your breath and join us for this week's Film Music Friday when we hear excerpts from some classic films, including The 39 Steps, North by Northwest, Catch Me If You Can, The Fugitive, The Bourne Ultimatum and more.
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10/01/2021 |
One of the most renowned film composers of the 20th century, Alex North created music for more than 60 major motion pictures, including A Streetcar Named Desire (the first all-jazz movie score), Death of a Salesman, Spartacus, Cleopatra and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. We'll hear excerpts from those films, as well as North's rejected score for 2001: A Space Odyssey on this week's Film Music Friday.
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09/24/2021 |
This week on Film Music Friday it's an encore broadcast of our show featuring the theremin in movies. It became a staple of sci-fi movies in the '50s, but the theremin has appeared in lots of other films besides. Tonight we'll hear the FIRST use of a theremin in a film score, plus excerpts from The Lost Weekend, Spellbound, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Thing, First Man and more.
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09/17/2021 |
September 17, 2021
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09/10/2021 |
In a career that stretched to more than 50 years, Maurice Jarre provided music for films like Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, The Longest Day, The Man Who Would Be King, Fatal Attraction and Ghost. Along the way he was Oscar-nominated nine times and won three Academy Awards. On this week's Film Music Friday we'll explore the career of Maurice Jarre, with excerpts from all of his Oscar-winning films and more.
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09/03/2021 |
This week on Film Music Friday we're revisiting the western. Following World War II, the western evolved from the traditional shoot 'em up to a more realistic, nuanced and often more violent style. We'll hear music from modern westerns like Tombstone, Dances With Wolves, Silverado and The Magnificent Seven (the 2016 remake).
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08/27/2021 |
On this week's Film Music Friday we're hearing the music for space exploration in cinema. Included are themes from Rocketship X-M, Destination Moon, The Right Stuff, First Men in the Moon, Interstellar and The Martian.
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08/20/2021 |
In the third of our three-part series on the music of film noir, we hear themes from The Lost Weekend, Chinatown, Possessed, Body Heat and Basic Instinct.
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