I too was at the concert. About as far up in the highest balcony as one
could get, but I was just glad I got seats before they were all sold out.
And the sound was superb, even though there seemed to be about a two second
delay from the time the musicians started to play and I heard it.
One
Even though not all movie music is great, or even good, many great
orchestral scores are locked away in the vaults of Hollywood.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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One thing that I find interesting, though, is that while John
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 11:40:46 -0600, Timothy A. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[John Williams's] movie scores almost always are immediately accessible, but also
bear
repeated listening, unlike some other popular composers. On the other
hand,
his concert works seem to require repeated
Prokofiev?
Amy
At 04:05 PM 12/3/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Quiz: Which major composer wrote the 1st motion picture music score?
-AC.
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At 03:52 PM 12/3/2003 -0500, you wrote:
I bet a lot of John Williams's music that is in the background (behind
dialog, etc.) is
Not Prokofiev.-AC.
At 03:10 PM 12/3/2003 -0600, you wrote:
Prokofiev?
Amy
At 04:05 PM 12/3/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Quiz: Which major composer wrote the 1st motion picture music score?
-AC.
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In 1915 D. W. Griffeth combined an orchestral score pieced together from
existing classical music for the film Birth of a Nation.
Al Jolson did most of the songs for the first talkie, The Jazz Singer and
that was in 1927.
For most of the early films and such I don't think you can attribute it
One of the first famed composers to write for film was Igor Stravinsky.
Another who wrote for film was Gershwin.
P Mansur
On Wednesday, December 3, 2003, at 04:05 PM, Alan Cole wrote:
Quiz: Which major composer wrote the 1st motion picture music score?
-AC.
I cheated and looked in our on-line Grove...can't help it, I work in a
library!
Amy
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set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
If nobody comes up with the quiz answer this evening, I'll give the answer
tonight after I get home from band rehearsal.
Not only that, I will cite the source. (Not bad for a rank amateur, eh?)
Given that I am not a musicalologist myself, that I know the answer only
because I heard it on
So who does Groves say it was? -AC.
At 04:17 PM 12/3/2003 -0600, you wrote:
I cheated and looked in our on-line Grove...can't help it, I work in a
library!
Amy
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set your options at
Well, they talk about compilations, etc, but make note of a 1908 French
film by Henri Lavedan (L'assassinat du duc de Guise) with a score by
Saint-Saens.
A.
At 05:45 PM 12/3/2003 -0500, you wrote:
So who does Groves say it was? -AC.
At 04:17 PM 12/3/2003
Right you are!
Saint-Saens it is.
I'll get into the radio show which talked about that after I get home from
band practice (in case anybody's interested).
-AC.
At 04:55 PM 12/3/2003 -0600, you wrote:
Well, they talk about compilations, etc, but make note of a
Certainly not in John Williams' vault! In all seriousness Korngold, Bernard
Hermann, and Max Steiner come to mind for good music on it's own.
Chris
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Even though not all movie music is great, or even good, many great
orchestral scores are locked away in
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