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milk

#1060
February 09, 2018, 05:20:38 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on February 09, 2018, 02:41:48 AM
That's quite true but Nancy's is my all-time favourite.
I have to go back and listen. Nancy is great. Shirley Bassey though, I don't know, pretty great! I guess we are lucky to have a time when pop music could really make an impression.

Christabel

#1061
February 09, 2018, 05:43:07 AM
 :D
Quote from: kyjo on September 05, 2017, 03:06:14 PM
Schnittke's score for "Story of an Unknown Actor" is hauntingly beautiful, and quite a bit more accessible than his angst-ridden concert works: https://youtu.be/M3EuHTOLG8o

I absolutely love this by the same composer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKuMJL1qdnw

Karl Henning

#1062
February 13, 2018, 05:45:18 AM
Well, this weekend I revisited Ghostbusters, which I do not believe I had seen since the season it opened.  And one half-surprising takeaway was, that while at the end of the movie you're probably humming the hit single theme song (Who you gonna call? No, really?) Elmer Bernstein's orchestral score really makes the movie the great success it is, from the ondes martenot in the opening NYPL scene, to the underscoring of the near-apocalypse finale.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

vandermolen

#1063
March 16, 2018, 12:56:23 PM
This is rather fun - a sub-Shostakovichian pastiche but very enjoyable and not without a sense of looming tragedy and sadness at times:
[asin]B077P2N4MY[/asin]
The film was terrific.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Spineur

#1064
March 16, 2018, 01:41:42 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on March 16, 2018, 12:56:23 PM
This is rather fun - a sub-Shostakovichian pastiche but very enjoyable and not without a sense of looming tragedy and sadness at times:
[asin]B077P2N4MY[/asin]
The film was terrific.
How about a remake The death of Putin...

vandermolen

#1065
March 16, 2018, 03:41:16 PM
Quote from: Spineur on March 16, 2018, 01:41:42 PM
How about a remake The death of Putin...

Bring it on!
8)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

aligreto

#1066
June 13, 2018, 08:23:02 AM
Ennio Morricone: The Mission


vandermolen

#1067
June 13, 2018, 02:17:58 PM
I enjoyed this enormously:
[asin]B000F6YWU8[/asin]
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Cato

#1068
June 13, 2018, 04:08:38 PM
We recently watched Pygmalion from 1938 with Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller: I was amazed to see that Arthur Honegger contributed the score!

"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

vandermolen

#1069
June 13, 2018, 09:44:35 PM
Quote from: Cato on June 13, 2018, 04:08:38 PM
We recently watched Pygmalion from 1938 with Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller: I was amazed to see that Arthur Honegger contributed the score!

How interesting Leo! Never knew that.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Karl Henning

#1070
June 14, 2018, 05:43:54 AM
Quote from: Cato on June 13, 2018, 04:08:38 PM
We recently watched Pygmalion from 1938 with Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller: I was amazed to see that Arthur Honegger contributed the score!

The Les Six connection set me to verifying . . . Georges Auric scored Wm Wyler's Roman Holiday (1953)
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

vandermolen

#1071
June 14, 2018, 11:27:13 AM Last Edit: June 14, 2018, 11:29:02 AM by vandermolen
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on June 14, 2018, 05:43:54 AM
The Les Six connection set me to verifying . . . Georges Auric scored Wm Wyler's Roman Holiday (1953)

And 'Dead of Night' one of my very favourite films Karl.
Not to mention the hauntingly beautiful, magical score for 'Beauty and the Beast' (not the cartoon or Emma Watson version I hasten to add).
Although I like those scores as well.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

aligreto

#1072
June 16, 2018, 10:48:11 AM
Korngold: Various Film Scores [Gerhardt]


vandermolen

#1073
June 16, 2018, 11:13:14 AM
Quote from: aligreto on June 16, 2018, 10:48:11 AM
Korngold: Various Film Scores [Gerhardt]




A classic recording which attracted a great deal of attention when initially released on LP.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

aligreto

#1074
June 16, 2018, 12:25:31 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on June 16, 2018, 11:13:14 AM
A classic recording which attracted a great deal of attention when initially released on LP.

Thank you for that information; I was not aware of that.

vandermolen

#1075
June 17, 2018, 10:17:52 AM
Quote from: aligreto on June 16, 2018, 12:25:31 PM
Thank you for that information; I was not aware of that.

It was and is very highly rated and I think it started that wonderful series of movie scores conducted by Charles Gerhardt.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

aligreto

#1076
June 17, 2018, 10:40:15 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on June 17, 2018, 10:17:52 AM
It was and is very highly rated and I think it started that wonderful series of movie scores conducted by Charles Gerhardt.

Cheers. I will have to investigate Charles Gerhardt!

vandermolen

#1077
June 17, 2018, 10:24:21 PM Last Edit: June 17, 2018, 10:50:59 PM by vandermolen
Quote from: aligreto on June 17, 2018, 10:40:15 AM
Cheers. I will have to investigate Charles Gerhardt!

If you type his name and 'classic film scores' into Amazon a lot come up. They were reissued on CD a while back but some are now over-priced. The one that I'd especially recommend is entitled 'Sunset Boulevard - the music of Franz Waxman' especially for the extraordinary 'making of the Female Monster' from Bride of Frankenstein. There's also a section from 'A Place in the Sun' which is identical to a part of Shostakovich's 11th Symphony but was composed before the Shostakovich! No way  that Dmitri S could have seen the movie and even more ironically Waxman conducted the West Coast premiere of Shostakovich's 11th Symphony.

I think that the clip below is very interesting and also plays a clip of the Fugue from Porgy and Bess, earlier than both, which has a similar theme.

https://youtu.be/Tzti-u2yd3o
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

relm1

#1078
June 18, 2018, 05:56:41 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on June 17, 2018, 10:24:21 PM
There's also a section from 'A Place in the Sun' which is identical to a part of Shostakovich's 11th Symphony but was composed before the Shostakovich!

I am curious to hear this clip, can you find it and link?

vandermolen

#1079
June 18, 2018, 06:18:31 AM
Quote from: relm1 on June 18, 2018, 05:56:41 AM
I am curious to hear this clip, can you find it and link?

Hi, check the you tube link above. Let me know if it doesn't work.

Here it is again:

https://youtu.be/Tzti-u2yd3o
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).
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