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.
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This week's Film Music Friday features music from some movies you may have missed, including The Rocket Post, The Quarry, Ammonite and The Escapist. -
We visit some strange and exotic places on this week's Film Music Friday, with music drawn from The Most Dangerous Game, The Thief of Bagdad, Land of the Pharoahs, The Abyss and more. -
David Shire composed some of the finest film scores of the 1970s and '80s, and on this week's Film Music Friday, we'll hear just a few. Among the films we'll highlight - The Conversation, All the President's Men, The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3, The Hindenburg and more! -
The villain has been a part of films since the beginning, and on this week's Film Music Friday, we'll hear music for the bad guys. Among the films - The Empire Strikes Back, Silence of the Lambs, The Dark Knight, The Killers and more. -
Composer Michael Giacchino has received an Oscar, an Emmy and three Grammys, and has scored some of the most popular films of the last decade. On this week's Film Music Friday we'll hear the work of Michael Giacchino on films like Up, Jurassic World, Doctor Strange, The Incredibles, Star Wars: Rogue One and more. -
We go where no one has gone before on this week's Film Music Friday as we hear the music of outer space movies. Among those featured - Destination: Moon, Rocketship X-M, First Men in the Moon, Apollo 13, Intersteller and more. -
Oscar-winning composer Alex North wrote for all kinds of films, and on tonight's Film Music Friday, we'll hear some of his work on A Streetcar Named Desire, Cleopatra, Spartacus and The Bad Seed, plus North's rejected score for 2001: A Space Oddysey. -
This week's Film Music Friday is a DISASTER! Actually, it's about the music for classic (and some not-so-classic) disaster movies, including Titanic, The Towering Inferno, When Worlds Collide, Twister and lots more. -
Danny Elfman was a rock musician and ardent film fan but eventually found himself composing music for feature films. This week on Film Music Friday we'll listen to some of his classic scores for such films as Batman, Edward Scissorhands and Midnight Run. -
Film Music Friday is out west this week, with some classic themes from Western films, including The Big Country, Stagecoach, The Searchers, The Magnificent Seven and more.
