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.
Every Friday host Darrell Brogdon will bring you magnificent movie music on Film Music Friday.
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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… -
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… -
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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… -
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… -
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… -
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. -
In part two of our series devoted to the music of film noir, we're hearing themes from Chinatown, Murder My Sweet, Taxi Driver, I Want to Live, Dirty… -
This week's Film Music Friday launches an encore broadcast of our three-part series on the music of film noir. In part one, we'll hear music from films… -
This encore edition of Film Music Friday is devoted to films about flight, including The Spirit of St. Louis, The Sound Barrier, The Blue Max, The Aviator…
