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9 Favorite Film Scores of 1962
August is my birthday month. Back in school it sucked because kids never bothered to remember your birthday during the summer. As a young adult, I used to have a mental list that I’d
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CD Review: Taras Bulba
Bernard Herrmann called it “the score of a lifetime.” And, oh, what a lifetime! Except for some TV work and one final score, Franz Waxman‘s 1962 score for TARAS BULBA brought the composer his 12th Oscar
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CD Review: Captain Blood – Classic Film Scores for Errol Flynn
Out of the numerous albums in Charles Gerhardt’s Classic Film Scores series, CAPTAIN BLOOD–CLASSIC FILM SCORES FOR ERROL FLYNN, released in 1975, was the final album devoted to a particular star. While some of the
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CD Review: Casablanca – Classic Film Scores for Humphrey Bogart
In addition to albums devoted to certain composers, Charles Gerhardt compiled a series of albums devoted to various film stars as part of his Classic Film Scores. The second album (the first was devoted
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Humoresque
The star of HUMORESQUE was composer Franx Waxman, not John Garfield’s driven concert violinist or Joan Crawford as his patroness-slash-lover. Waxman’s Oscar-nominated score took center stage, featuring everything from Tchaikovsky to Chopin, Rimsky-Korsakov to the Dvorak
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9 Favorite Franz Waxman Scores
For this month’s “9 on the 9th” post, we focus on one of my favorite film composers, Golden Age or otherwise–Franz Waxman . Waxman got his start in Germany scoring films like Marlene Dietrich’s THE
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Tell Mama, Tell Mama All
FRANZ WAXMAN made history when he won for the Academy Award for his score to A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951). Following his win the year prior for SUNSET BOULEVARD, Waxman became the first
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It’s the Pictures That Got Small
I love Twitter. In 140 characters or less, you can connect with people you might never meet otherwise. While fishing in the Twitter stream this past week, searching for any tweets with the phrase “film
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Here Comes the Sun
Sometimes a President’s rise bears more drama than his tenure in the White House. Though Franklin Delano Roosevelt experienced his share of drama in office, his personal trials form the basis of SUNRISE AT CAMPOBELLO
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Following In Waxman’s Foot-steppes
The highlight of Franz Waxman’s Oscar-nominated score for TARAS BULBA (1962) is the thrilling “The Ride to Dubno.” As Yul Brynner and his fellow Cossacks ride onto the steppes to meet an unsuspecting Polish army
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