Film Composers Go Classical on WPRB

Film Composers Go Classical on WPRB

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It takes very little to get me going on a film music jag – especially classic film music. Tomorrow morning on WPRB, the program will be made up entirely of works by composers for the silver screen. However, the emphasis will be on their music for the concert hall. The way I figure, I will introduce each concert piece with an example of a composer’s film music, and then follow it up with a symphony, concerto, string quartet or aria from the same hand.

I don’t know how many of these we’ll actually be able to get to, but I’ve compiled a box full of music by Elmer Bernstein (composer of “The Magnificent Seven”), Bruce Broughton (“Silverado”), Ernest Gold (“Exodus”), Jerry Goldsmith (“The Omen”), Bernard Herrmann (“Psycho”), Lee Holdridge (“The Beastmaster”), James Horner (“Titanic”), Maurice Jarre (“Lawrence of Arabia”), Laurie Johnson (“Dr. Strangelove”), Erich Wolfgang Korngold (“The Adventures of Robin Hood”), Jerome Moross (“The Big Country”), Ennio Morricone (“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”), Rachel Portman (“Emma”), Nino Rota (“The Godfather”), Miklós Rózsa (“Ben-Hur”), Lalo Schifrin (“Dirty Harry”), Franz Waxman (“The Bride of Frankenstein”), and John Williams (“Star Wars”).

This weekend, Daniel Spalding will conduct the New Jersey Capital Philharmonic Orchestra in a blockbuster program of “Cinematic Classics,” featuring works by Rózsa, Herrmann and William Walton, with Odin Rathnam the soloist in Korngold’s Violin Concerto. The concert will take place at the Trenton War Memorial on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Spalding will be my guest tomorrow morning around 10:00.

It’ll be buttered popcorn and Sno-Caps for breakfast, tomorrow from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. We’ll be shattering all box office records, on Classic Ross Amico.


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