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04/02/2021 |
This week's Film Music Friday explores the use of jazz in the movies. Several factors, including the demise of the big band era, rising costs and the emergence of film noir led to increasing use of jazz in film scoring in the 1950's. We'll hear some examples, including music from A Streetcar Named Desire, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Wild One, Anatomy of a Murder, Bullitt and Whiplash.
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03/26/2021 |
This week, an encore broadcast of our remembrance of composer Ennio Morricone, who died in July 2020. One of the most influential composers of the 20th century, we'll hear samples of his work from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Cinema Paradiso, The Thing, The Untouchables and more.
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03/26/2021 |
Alfred Newman is one of the greatest of all film composers, winner of NINE Academy Awards (more than any other musician) and one of the fathers of modern film scoring. On this Film Music Friday we'll hear some of his most memorable work, including music from Beau Geste, Gunga Din, Song of Bernadette, The Diary of Anne Frank, How the West Was Won and Airport, among others.
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03/19/2021 |
The business of film music is notoriously male-dominated. Female composers worked on barely more than 1% of the 100 top-grossing films for each of the last 12 years. On this week's Film Music Friday we'll hear from some of the leading women film composers, including Oscar winners Rachel Portman and Anne Dudley; pioneers Doreen Carwithen, Wendy Carlos and Shirley Walker; and relative newcomers like Hildur Guðnadóttir and Pinar Toprak. The music tonight is drawn from The Shining, The Cider House Rules, Poldark, True Lies, Manchester by the Sea, Joker, |
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03/12/2021 |
This week's Film Music Friday focuses on Dimitri Tiomkin, a Russian born and educated composer who wrote some of the most American-sounding music in movies, especially for westerns. Tonight we'll hear music from It's a Wonderful Life, Lost Horizon, High Noon, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Thing, Giant, Rio Bravo and more.
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03/05/2021 |
This week explore the music of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, comprising 23 feature films, TV shows, digital series and more. We'll hear excerpts from Iron Man, Captain America, The Avengers, The Black Panther and more.
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02/19/2021 |
This week's show is devoted to music from the films of Cary Grant. Born Archie Leach in 1904 he became one of the great leading men during Hollywood's Golden Age. We'll hear excerpts from The Philadelphia Story, Gunga Din, Notorious, To Catch a Thief, North by Northwest and more.
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02/12/2021 |
For Valentine's Day, here's a show devoted to movies about love and romance. We'll hear excerpts from Now Voyager, Love Actually, The Princess Bride, Casblanca and more.
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02/05/2021 |
This week's Film Music Friday is devoted to rejected scores, movie music that for whatever reason was deemed unsuitable and was (often unceremoniously) dropped from the film. As a film composer it seems you're nobody 'til you've had at least one score rejected. We'll hear excerpts from Bernard Herrmann's unused score for Hitchcock's Torn Curtain, plus rejected scores from The Exorcist, 2001: A Space Oddysey, The Journey of Natty Gann and more.
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01/22/2021 |
Henry Mancini is probably the most popular and successful film composer of the 20th century, with iconic scores for films like Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Pink Panther, Experiment in Terror, Hatari and many more. This week's Film Music Friday explores the music of Henry Mancini, with excerpts from many of his most famous works.
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