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Coming attractions for films old and new, featuring the original score and NOT “Carmina Burana”.
Harvey
Though Pulitzer Prizes have usually gone to weightier subject matter, there once was a time when comedies were awarded the Drama prize. The first Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1918–Jesse Lynch Williams’s WHY MARRY?–was
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Like many fans, 1977 was a seminal year in my film score education. Beyond the blockbuster status of STAR WARS came an even more affecting score from the pen of John Williams—CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE
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Spellbound
Producer David O. Selznick, who had recently gone through a “successful” bout of therapy (not at all common in the mid-1940s), was determined to bring the world of psychoanalysis to the screen and hired
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The Devil and Daniel Webster
To close out a week in which my writing efforts have been alternating between Bernard Herrmann and LORD OF THE RINGS concert coverage, let’s celebrate with Herrmann’s Oscar. The innocuously-titled ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY
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A Passage To India
David Lean provided a triple threat for his final film, A PASSAGE TO INDIA (1984), serving as director, screenwriter and editor. But by serving in too many roles, he lost sight of the “big
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Bacharach’s Oscar
Far be it from me to deny the talents of Burt Bacharach. He changed the sound of pop music. His songs (usually with lyrics by Hal David) are musically intricate–rhythmically, melodically, and harmonically. But the
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Breakfast At Tiffany’s
Literary purists may balk at the sanitized version of Truman Capote’s BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (1961). But film buffs were rewarded with Audrey Hepburn in her signature role as Holly Golightly, a young, free-spirited woman
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Chop, Chop ‘Til Your Dead
HUSH…HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE (1964) was the second in a string of “hag horror” films starring Bette Davis. After the success of WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? in 1962, director Robert Aldrich wanted to
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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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KHAAAAN!!
I’ve been reading Isaac Asimov’s FOUNDATION trilogy lately with the few STAR TREK scores I own as my musical background. One that is missing is Film Score Monthly’s recent release of the complete, expanded edition
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