This week on “Picture Perfect,” for the 70th anniversary of the release of Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments – and just in time for Passover – we’ll hear selections from Elmer Bernstein’s classic score.
From a 6-CD set on the Intrada label – that includes the complete 2 ½ hour score, three commercial soundtrack releases, and bonus material intriguing enough to curl Charlton Heston’s beard – we’ll hear lovingly remastered highlights from the 1960 Dot and 1966 United Artists soundtrack re-recordings, the Pillar of Fire and parting of the Red Sea sequence from the original score, as heard in the film, and rare demos, prepared for Mr. DeMille by the composer, who announces his themes as he plays them, from the piano.
So let it be written, so let it be done!
It’s the collector’s equivalent of stone tablets handed down from Mount Sinai. Join me for the definitive “The Ten Commandments,” on “Picture Perfect,” music for the movies, now in syndication on KWAX Classical Oregon!
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PICTURE PERFECT, the movie music show – Friday at 8:00 PM EDT/5:00 PM PDT
SWEETNESS AND LIGHT, the light music program – Saturday at 11:00 AM EDT/8:00 AM PDT
THE LOST CHORD, unusual and neglected rep – Saturday at 7:00 PM EDT/4:00 PM PDT
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“The Ten Commandments” on “Picture Perfect”
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7 responses to ““The Ten Commandments” on “Picture Perfect””
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Used to watch this every year for Easter…the parting of the Red Sea is still one of the best special effects ever …
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Lesley Siedt I think they’ll be broadcasting it next Saturday. I’m glad that it’s still on TV, but they’ve trimmed so much over the years to make room for more commercials. As cool as it was to watch these things on network television when you knew everyone else was watching at the same time, so that we all shared a kind of franca lingua, something we could talk about around the water cooler, I’m glad I own it on home video. I won’t watch “It’s a Wonderful Life” with commercials either.
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Classic Ross Amico oh definitely…I much prefer it without commercials
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I forgot how tedious that movie (19 Commandments)was. Yet listened to your entire playlist ! I believe it’s laconic commentary hooked me. Or a variant of gerontologic inevitability. Mine.
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SW Paul Mack Love the movie, although I would never argue that it is on as high a plane as “Ben-Hur” (as you may have read in one of my posts the other day, a personal favorite). Still, I find “The Interminable Commandments” quite agreeable as popular entertainment. There’s a lyric in Mel Brooks’ “The Twelve Chairs” that goes: “Hope for the best/ Expect the worst/ You could be Tolstoy /Or Fannie Hurst.” “The Ten Commandments” is Fannie Hurst. And none the less enjoyable for it!
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Thank Goodness, Only 10 !.!.!
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Music was its banal crux.
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