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The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour: Bernard Herrmann - Beyond Hitchcock
Randy Newman and “The Natural”
Randy Newman wasn’t well-known as a film composer in the early 1980s, despite picking up an Oscar nomination for Ragtime (1981). But with his score for The Natural, Newman penned a score that beautifully complemented this iconic baseball movie.
The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour - Michael Giacchino
The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour: Korngold and the Sound of the Swashbuckler
The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour: Disasters!
The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour - Alan Silvestri
Film music sets the mood and helps elicit the emotional responses that make a good movie a great movie. Each week on Charlottesville Classical, The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour takes a listen to music from the wide world of film scores.
The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour - Oscars: The 1950s
The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour: Herrmann and Hitch
Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock were both creative geniuses in their own right. But the combination of their talents helped create some of the most memorable films of the 20th Century. This week’s show features music from their collaborations.
The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour: The Music of Film Noir
Springing from a fertile mix of hard-boiled crime fiction and German expressionist cinematography, film noir presented a rough-edged alternative to the cozy stereotype of the American dream.
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