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Romantic Movie Music for Valentine’s Day & War

Most of us crave some level of stability in our lives (for some of us, perhaps now more than usual), but when it comes to the movies, nothing enhances romantic passion quite like societal upheaval.

This week on “Picture Perfect,” for Valentine’s Day, there will be plenty of valor, nobility, and sacrifice to tug at the heart strings, as we listen to music from movies that examine love in time of war, including selections from “Casablanca” (Max Steiner), “Doctor Zhivago” (Maurice Jarre), “The English Patient” (Gabriel Yared), and “Cyrano de Bergerac” (Dimitri Tiomkin).

War supplies impediments, spectacle, often tragedy, and possibly even a few Oscars. Tune in for an hour of impossible love, missed opportunities, and doomed romance, on “Picture Perfect,” music for the movies, now in syndication on KWAX, the radio station of the University of Oregon!

Clip and save the start times for all three of my recorded shows:

PICTURE PERFECT, the movie music show – Friday at 8:00 PM EST/5:00 PM PST

SWEETNESS AND LIGHT, the light music program – ALL NEW! – Saturday at 11:00 AM EST/8:00 AM PST

THE LOST CHORD, unusual and neglected rep – Saturday at 7:00 PM EST/4:00 PM PST

Stream them, wherever you are, at the link!

https://kwax.uoregon.edu/

February 14, 2025
Casablanca TCM Tonight Classic Movie Night

Tomorrow night at 8:00 EST on @[100064540430499:2048:Turner Classic Movies: TCM], followed by “Casablanca.” (Rebroadcast at 12:15 a.m., followed by “Now, Voyager” and “King Kong.”)

December 5, 2022
Romantic Movie Soundtracks Picture Perfect

This week on “Picture Perfect,” we bestow a great big red heart, heavy with lovingly refined sugar, in the form of music from beloved screen romances.

On the program will be selections from “Casablanca,” by Max Steiner, “Doctor Zhivago” by Maurice Jarre, and “Wuthering Heights,” by Alfred Newman.

John Barry, who wrote many lovely scores for lovers (aside from the music to a good many of the James Bond movies), will be represented by “Somewhere in Time,” a Christopher Reeve-Jane Seymour time travel romance that is lambasted in some circles and remembered with affection in others. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen the whole thing, in its infinite 1980s showings on HBO, but I am willing to give it the benefit of the doubt, since it was written by prolific “Twilight Zone” scribe Richard Matheson (who also wrote “The Incredible Shrinking Man,” “I am Legend,” and “Hell House”). Remember when William Shatner discovered a gremlin on the wing of his plane? Matheson wrote that. ‘Nuff said.

I hope you’ll join me for a little Friday the 13th romance, on “Picture Perfect” – music for the movies – this Friday evening at 6, with a repeat Saturday morning at 6; or that you’ll listen to it later as a webcast, at http://www.wwfm.org.

PHOTO: Richard Matheson knows romance

February 13, 2015

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