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 we're hearing music from the films of Alfred Hitchock. Over a career that stretched from the silents to the '70s, the Merchant of Menace worked with some of filmdom's top composers, including Miklos Rozsa, Bernard Herrmann, Dimitri Tiomkin and John Williams. -
In celebration of Valentine's Day this week's Film Music Friday features the music of love and romance. We'll hear themes from Casablanca, Love Actually,… -
This week on Film Music Friday, it's the music of "sword-and-sandal movies". They date back to the beginning of cinema and include epic films based on… -
John Williams is arguably the most popular film composer of the last 100 years. On this week's Film Music Friday we'll hear some highlights from his… -
Danny Elfman went from being a singer in a New Wave band to composing scores for big budget Hollywood movies, and we'll hear some of his work on this… -
This week on Film Music Friday it's When Aliens Attack! We'll hear themes from some classic - and a few not-so-classic - "alien invasion" movies,… -
This week on Film Music Friday it's the National Philharmonic, a recording orchestra that devoted itself largely to classic film scores in the 1970s and… -
This week's Film Music Friday celebrates the music of B-movies. These low budget, bottom-of-the-bill epics first appeared in the 1930s and were still… -
This week's Film Music Friday features music from the films of Audrey Hepburn, including Roman Holiday, Charade, Funny Face, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The… -
This week's Film Music Friday features music from the films of Audrey Hepburn, including Roman Holiday, Charade, Funny Face, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The…
