Happy birthday, Miklós Rózsa (1907-1995)!
Can you spare ten minutes to soak up some Golden Age greatness? Check out this wonderful medley of some of his classic film scores.
I had a blast picking out the films without looking at the images. I own recordings of all of them, of course. (What? No “Lust for Life???”)
Rózsa conducts the Pittsburgh Symphony in a suite from “Ben-Hur”:
Jascha Heifetz plays the Violin Concerto (subsequently adapted for use in “The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes”):
They don’t make ‘em like Miklós anymore.

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