What do Die Hard, Dead Poets Society and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective all have in common? They all feature music from Beethoven's popular Symphony No. 9! It's questions like that you may get answered on KPR's Film Music Friday at 7:06 p.m.
Film Music Friday celebrates the use of classical music in movies, as well as classic symphonic scores created especially for motion pictures. Whether is J.S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue from Monty Python and the Meaning of Life or Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture from Caddyshack or Bellini's "Casta Diva" from The Bridges of Madison County, classical music and opera has provided the background for movies since the age of silent film. With the advent of sound, pioneering composers like Max Steiner and Erich Korngold created memorable scores for films like King Kong and The Adventures of Robin Hood.
-
On this week's Film Music Friday we're hearing the music from movies ABOUT movies, including Sunset Boulevard, The Bad and the Beautiful, Cinema Paradiso, Bowfinger and more. -
Silent films were rarely silent. There was, of course, piano accompaniment in many theaters, and occasionally composers even wrote full orchestral scores. We'll hear some of those on this week's Film Music Friday, including music from Nosferatu, Metropolis, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Thief of Bagdad and more. -
Jerome Moross was part of a small cadre of New York-based composers in the 1930s, including Leonard Bernstein, David Diamond and Bernard Herrmann. His career took various paths, creating music for films and TV, theatre and the concert hall. This week on Film Music Friday we'll hear some examples of the Moross magic from The Big Country, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Jayhawkers and more. -
We're off on some epic journeys this week on Film Music Friday, with music from Jaws, Apollo 13, The Perfect Storm, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Lord of the Rings and more. -
Over the years there have been a LOT of movies about newspapers and newspaper reporters. On this week's Film Music Friday we're hearing music from some of these epics, including Citizen Kane, All the President's Men, Spotlight, The Killing Fields and more. -
Stories about treasure hunting has captivated filmmakers for decades. On this week's Film Music Friday, we'll hear music from movies about searching for treasure, with excerpts from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Goonies, National Treasure, Raiders of the Lost Ark and more. -
Although he worked in many different film genres during his long career, it's the Western movie scores of Elmer Bernstein that are especially beloved by film fans. On this week's Film Music Friday we'll hear some of Bernstein's classic Western scores, including music from The Magnificent Seven, The Tin Star, The Comancheros, True Grit, The Shootist and more. -
The first public showing a motion picture occurred in France in 1895 and today the French film industry is the most prolific in the world. On this week's Film Music Friday we explore the world of French film music, with excerpts from Beauty and the Beast, Jules and Jim, Elevator to the Gallows, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and more. -
Composer Albert Glasser spent nearly his entire career creating music for B-movies, including low-budget epics like Invasion U.S.A., The Amazing Colossal Man, The Boy and the Pirates and Earth vs. The Spider, among others. On this edition of Film Music Friday, we're hearing music composed by Albert Glasser in the 1950's and early '60s. -
Movie music is often re-fashioned into suites for concert orchestra and on this week's Film Music Friday, we'll hear some examples. There's music from The Lost Patrol, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Vertigo, Mysterious Island and more!
