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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On this week's Film Music Friday, it's music from dealing with magic and magicians. You'll hear themes from The Thief of Bagdad, Jean Cocteau's Beauty and… -
In movies, the MacGuffin is the object, device or person that's necessary to the plot and the motivation of the characters. Alfred Hitchcock, who popularized the term, said "The MacGuffin is the thing that the spies are after but the audience don't care." -
Michael Giacchino is among the most successful film composers working today. He's contributed music to several popular film franchises, including the… -
This week on Film Music Friday...when good music happens to bad movies. Sometimes a great score is the only thing to recommend in really lousy movies, and… -
Composer Hans Zimmer has provided the music for a staggering number of films during his 30+ year career. On this week's Film Music Friday we'll hear… -
In this encore broadcast of Film Music Friday, we'll leap into music for heroes - super and otherwise - with tunes from Superman, 633 Squadron, Wonder… -
Austrian-born composer Max Steiner moved to Hollywood in 1929 and became one of the first composers to write music scores for films. He's often referred… -
This week on KPR's Film Music Friday we'll be hearing music from the films of John Wayne. In a career that stretched from the silent era into the 1970s,… -
In Hollywood it's thought that comedies don't win Oscars. They do, however, produce some pretty entertaining tunes and on tonight's Film Music Friday… -
John Barry shot to fame with the music he created for James Bond movies in the 1960s and went on to craft scores for such films as The Lion in Winter, Out…
