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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Film Music Friday heads into outer space this week, as we hear music from some classic films about space exploration. Among the films to be featured are… -
Just because a movie stinks doesn't automatically mean the music is bad. This week on Film Music Friday we're hearing the music of some notable box office… -
In movies, the McGuffin is an object, device, person or place that serves merely as a trigger for the plot. On this week's Film Music Friday we'll hear… -
On this week's Film Music Friday we dive into the distinctive "sound" of films from Warner Brothers Studio. The Warners produced the first film with a… -
It's the season of Halloween, and this week's Film Music Friday features some classic monster movies. We'll hear music from Nosferatu, The Bride of… -
Although composer Alex North never won a competitive Oscar, he was nominated 15(!) times, and on this week's Film Music Friday we'll hear some of his most… -
The conventional wisdom in Hollywood is that comedies don’t win Oscars. And while history seems to bear that out…it’s not because a comedy film isn’t… -
On this week's Film Music Friday we explore the transition from page to screen, when best-selling books are adapted into films. There's music from Gone… -
Following the Second World War, the western movie underwent a transformation, from good guys vs. bad guys shoot-em-ups to more complex, and often violent, adult stories. -
In the beginning jazz and films had a problematic relationship. Until the 1950s the main function of jazz in a film was strictly for entertainment…or what’s called “source music”…in other words, music that—on film—might be heard in a bar or playing on a radio. However, in the hangover following World War 2, and the rise of film noir, more composers began to use jazz in their film scores.
