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9 Favorite Film Scores of Max Steiner
“The Father of Film Music”… How’s that for a moniker to live up to? I don’t know when or where that title was given to Max Steiner, or whether it gave him pause or
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9 Oscar-Nominated Scores That Deserve (Re)discovery
With the 2010 Academy Awards just weeks away, this month’s “9 on the 9th” post covers some real “lost in the shuffle” Oscar-nominated film scores. With over 75 years worth of scores to choose
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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: Gone With the Wind – Max Steiner’s Classic Film Score
In his Classic Film Scores series LPs devoted to Golden Age film music, Charles Gerhardt only produced one album devoted to a single score–Max Steiner‘s classic GONE WITH THE WIND, released in 1974. Of all
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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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Life With Father
In our current world when it’s almost unheard of for a Broadway play to run more than a season, it must have come as quite a shock when Howard Russell and Lindsay Crouse’s Life
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1934: The Year Oscar Scored
Published in FSM Online March 2010 This year marks the 75th anniversary of the first Academy Awards in Music. While the Best Song category has remained essentially unchanged since its inception (except for those
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Casablanca
Forget CITIZEN KANE. My vote for the greatest American film is CASABLANCA. There’s no denying KANE’s importance in film history and there are other films I love more than CASABLANCA. But CASABLANCA is the perfect
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Johnny Belinda
From Patty Duke to Dustin Hoffman, Oscar appreciates actors who take on the challenge of playing disabled characters. But few have done so with such poignancy and effortless ease as Jane Wyman in her
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No Shy Violet, Let’s Middle Aisle It
You think your life sucks? Coke bottle glasses, out-of-date hairstyle and outfit, and oh those sensible shoes. Poor Charlotte Vale: unattractive, overweight, and a spinster on the verge of a nervous breakdown from the
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