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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Once typecast in gangster roles, Humphrey Bogart eventually transcended his status as a movie star to become an international cultural icon. This week on… -
With the Fourth of July upon us, it seems like a good time to feature music from patriotic films. This week we'll hear music from Captain America,… -
The dictionary defines "epic" as something that's heroic, majestic, impressively great. In Hollywood an epic is a movie that's big - really big. And a big… -
On this week's Film Music Friday we're hearing the Golden Age of the Science Fiction. Our fascination with the future has made science fiction a staple of… -
Carter Burwell didn't aspire to become a composer, much less a film composer. However, filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen gave him an opportunity to write the… -
It’s not uncommon today for us hear film music played in concert by symphony orchestras. But it wasn’t always the case. When the concept of creating a synchronized score for a motion picture was still a new thing…most music critics and symphony conductors didn’t take it seriously. -
This week on Film Music Friday we're hearing music from movies ABOUT movies, including themes from Sunset Boulevard, The Bad and the Beautiful, Singin' in… -
For a Russian composer who never quite mastered the English language, Dimitri Tiomkin wrote some of the most American-sounding music in films. This week… -
This week on Film Music Friday we're hearing the music of Republic Pictures. For more than 30 years, Republic was best known for Westerns, serials and B films emphasizing mystery and action. -
This week on Film Music Friday we're hearing rejected scores. Nearly every film composer has had a score rejected at some point in their career. Some…
