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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This week on Film Music Friday we'll sample music from movies about real people - the "biopic." Among the films included are Lawrence of Arabia, Inn of… -
This week's Film Music Friday is our third excursion into the music of film noir. We'll hear excerpts from films like Caged, Possessed, All Through the… -
Some movies are disasters...and some are disaster movies. This week on Film Music Friday, it's a deep dive into themes from some of Hollywood's most… -
Although his career as a film composer was relatively brief (just 16 films), Eirch Wolfgang Korngold is considered one of the fathers of modern film… -
Many film composers also create music for the concert hall. This week on Film Music Friday we'll listen to examples of concert music by Miklos Rozsa,… -
Composer Jerry Goldsmith was nominated for 18 Academy Awards and collaborated with some of film history's most accomplished directors. On this edition of… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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…
