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Jules Verne Movie Music New Year on WWFM

This week on “Picture Perfect,” ring in a new year with Jules Verne’s novels of science, progress and adventure.

Enjoy music from “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” (Paul J. Smith), “In Search of the Castaways” (William Alwyn), “Journey to the Center of the Earth” (Bernard Herrmann), and “Around the World in 80 Days” (Victor Young).

Verne’s characters frequently venture into the unknown, yet manage to overcome all obstacles. Of course, it doesn’t hurt carry a harpoon, just in case.

Raise a glass to Jules Verne with Phileas Fogg and Passepartout, on “Picture Perfect,” music for the movies, this Saturday evening at 6:00 EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

January 1, 2021
Jules Verne Movie Music for Dark Days

With a time change imminent (tomorrow night, we fall back) and Election Day right around the corner, we’ll shun the darkness with music from movies inspired by Jules Verne’s novels of science, progress, and adventure.

We’ll hear evocative selections from four films inspired by Verne’s novels, including “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” (1954) by Paul J. Smith, “In Search of the Castaways” (1962) by William Alwyn, “Journey to the Center of the Earth” (1959) by Bernard Herrmann, and “Around the World in 80 Days” (1956) by Victor Young.

Verne takes us to some very strange places, yet manages to overcome all obstacles. Still, it’s always a good idea to bring a harpoon, just in case.

Grab your gear and climb aboard. It’s music inspired by Jules Verne this week, on “Picture Perfect,” music for the movies, this Friday evening at 6:00 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

November 2, 2018
1900’s Predictions of the Year 2000

Clearly, not all the French living in 1900 were quite as prescient as Jules Verne – though how cool would it be to live in a world of bat-like firemen and whale buses? How efficient for schoolmasters to dump books into a meat-grinder and have knowledge transmitted directly into students’ brains? And how useful for children to have the ability to rob an eagle’s nest?

Interesting that so many of these automated schemes involve someone having to supervise by pressing many buttons or manipulating levers (for example, the barber and the beauty station). It would seem as much trouble as simply performing the tasks the old-fashioned way – which, come to think of it, is probably why they never caught on.

The outlook for theater orchestras, however, seems eerily prescient. View these breathtaking prognostications here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/04/what-people-in-1900-thought-the-year-2000-would-look-like/?tid=sm_tw

October 5, 2015
Jules Verne Film Music Adventure on Picture Perfect

THE NINTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS

This week on “Picture Perfect,” we begin the New Year with science, progress and adventure, courtesy of Jules Verne.

We’ll hear music from four films inspired by Verne novels, including “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” composed by Paul J. Smith; “In Search of the Castaways,” by William Alwyn; “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” by Bernard Herrmann; and “Around the World in 80 Days,” by Victor Young.

Grab your gear and climb aboard, tonight at 6 ET, with a repeat tomorrow morning at 6, or listen to it later as a webcast at http://www.wwfm.org.

P.S. Don’t forget to bring a harpoon!

January 2, 2015

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