Lust for Life: A Symphony (Miklós Rózsa - 1956)
Spellbound (1945).
Ben Hur (1959).
Re-posted by N.S.
Rózsa was one of the Big 12 composers who ennobled the 20th century motion picture. In no particular order, they were:
1. Aaron Copland
2. Bernard Hermann
3. Steiner
4. Jerry Goldsmith
5. Alfred Newman
6. Elmer Bernstein (aka Bernstein West)
7. Erich Wolfgang Korngold
8. Victor Young
9. John Williams
10. James Horner
11. Dmitri Tiomkin
12. Rózsa
Rózsa won one of his three Oscars (along with Ben Hur, 1959, and A Double Life, 1947) for the Hitchcock Top 50 masterpiece, Spellbound (1945). The Hungarian's score was so magnificently lyrical that Hitch rewarded him by refusing to work with him ever again! The Master of Suspense complained that Rózsa's music overshadowed his direction!
Miklós Rózsa's Lust for Life: A Symphony (Miklós Rózsa - 1956)
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Testing 1-2-3- let's see if I'm still blocked from posting.
-RM
Will wonders never cease! My last few posts here never appeared, and I tried sending a couple of messages directly to your e-mail address, still with no result. No idea what's been going wrong.
Maybe seeing a list of great movie composers with Morricone omitted and James Horner included unleashed some kind of cosmic energy that restored me to this soapbox!
-RM
Maybe you sent your comments to "Nicholas Stox" the stock market blog or "Nicholas Stax",the soul record label blog. A letter makes a difference on "the internets"(as "dubya" used to call it).
--GRA
More likely, they went to the River Styx.
-RM
TAYLOR SWIFT RELEASES NEW ALBUM--IT'S ALL THE WORLD HAS,I GUESS,FOR ENTERTAINMENT
GRA:Various boards like Reddit had non-stop blather about Taylor Swift's new album,"The Life of a Showgirl". It's as if she's the only entertainer in the world--at least the only White entertainer of any consequence under 40 years old.
I listened to one track,"Ruin the Friendship" and it isn't something I explicitly hated. On Rate-a-Record(where 0 is rap and 100 would be the Beatles,Stones,Doors, Simon and Garfunkle etc)I would give it a 60 out of 100 for its whispery voiced delivery and lyrics that are repeated many times to the point of tedium.
Other reviews are mixed.
Anyone else,besides blacks,releasing music until the next Swift album in two years?
--GRA
Dear Mr. Stix,
I haven’t watched many movies of the past few decades. However, the composers of classic Hollywood films that I have enjoyed include the following guys who didn’t make it on your top 12 list.
Best wishes,
YLR
Henry Mancini
Nino Rota
Maurice Jarre
Franz Waxman
Mikis Theodorakis
I would also allow Dmitri Shostakovich for his stirring score for “Alexander Nevsky.”
Amen to that, and you can add many composers who don't "count" because they mainly worked in "genre" movies, "B" pictures, serials, TV, cartoons, even in the creation of "production music" libraries. There were probably more talented people working as composers- often without credit- than in any other aspect of film-making! (Cinematographers a close second.)
-RM
You mentioned cartoons,where all you need to say is Carl Stalling for WB and Scott Bradley for MGM(Tom and Jerry,Droopy etc)
Great music back in the 30s and 40s amidst some big laughs.
--GRA
Winston Sharples worked for years scoring cartoons for Paramount (the later POPEYEs, HERMAN AND KATNIP, etc.), held on to the rights to his music and created his own "music library"- if you grew up with the made-for-TV FELIX THE CAT cartoons, you heard lots of his unique style, not just humorous but dramatic, quirky and scary, with action music that had incredible hard-driving fast rhythms! Also cartoon-wise, Hoyt Curtin went from creating the charming themes for the early Hanna-Barbera cartoons to the fever-pitch scoring of JONNY QUEST- again, lots of scary and dramatic themes, and also super-fast action music (Curtin was a jazz musician and had what you'd call a red-hot combo playing the music!). Available on CD (and the series on DVD and blu-ray).
-RM
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