Breathtaking! Just when I think I've heard it all from him, he takes me on a new adventure! Steiner! The Charge of the Light Brigade A Symphony (Max Steiner - 1936)

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Re-posted by N.S.

[Note that I have corrected my oversight, in not having posted the coding to the suite of Steiner's score to The Informer. I apologize to those readers whom I have inconvenienced.]

The Charge of the Light Brigade A Symphony (Max Steiner - 1936)

One listener wrote that this 65-minute version was complete.

Steiner wrote this score just after winning his first Oscar for Nichols and Ford's The Informer (1935).

Steiner's imdb.com page claims he was not even nominated for this score. It says that he was instead nominated that year for The Garden of Allah. However, the little man was won that year by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, for Anthony Adverse, also from Warner's.

And yet...Steiner WAS nominated that year for The Charge of the Light Brigade, which means that he may have knocked himself off, and ensured Korngold's win.

[As I have noted countless times, for over 20 years, the editing at imdb.com has been virtually non-existent. Thus, have I sometimes corrected false claims made there on one page, which are contradicted on other pages, about how many times someone was nominated for Oscars, or how many times he won an Oscar.]

google asserts that Steiner was nominated for 18 Oscars, while one imdb.com page asserts he was nominated for 24 Oscars, but BOTH are wrong. He was nominated at least 25 times. Now I am going to have to go through Steiner's 242 pictures, and see how many times he was really nominated, as opposed to the fake information sites.

google pedantically "corrected" me: "the query likely contains a misunderstanding, as the search results do not connect a 'Max Steiner' to being nominated 18 times; instead, they detail the life of composer Max Steiner, who was nominated for 18 Academy Awards and won 3. The '18' is the number of Oscar nominations he received during his career, making him a highly nominated composer for film scores like Gone with the Wind.

"academy award nominations: Max Steiner received 18 academy award nominations for his film scores and won 3 oscars.

"career: He was a prolific austrian composer known as 'the father of film music' who wrote music for numerous films and theatre productions.

"notable work: some of his iconic scores include King Kong (1933), Gone with the Wind (1939), and Casablanca (1942)."

How could google be so wrong?! My hunch is that it has adopted the criterion of The Pretend Encyclopedia, better known as wikipedia, which long ago jettisoned truth as its standard. At Pretend, the rule is that one must cite "reliable sources." However, what that means is, sources that are reliably left-wing, and thus, dishonest. google is the world's biggest promoter of The Pretend Encyclopedia. google is, therefore, one of the world's least reliable sources of knowledge.