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In The Spirit of St. Louis (1957), directed by Billy Wilder, Stewart is carried aloft, not only by his replica of Lindbergh’s single engine monoplane, but the heroic, emotional score of Franz Waxman. So much depended on Waxman because of the limited use of dialogue and action, as the story unfolds against the long overwater flight.
For Franz Waxman’s Oratorio “Joshua” is big. It is big in its musical forces, big in its impact, big in its ideas and exaltation.” The Oratorio is dedicated to the memory of Alice Waxman and was first performed on May 23, 1959 with the Temple Emanu-El Choir, conducted by Samuel Adler, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, in the sanctuary of ...
In 1958 Waxman conducted the West Coast premiere of Dimitri Shostakovich’s Eleventh Symphony. While studying the score he noticed a striking resemblance between the end of the second movement and the chase fugue “Farewell and Frenzy” in his A Place in the Sun Suite written seven years earlier for a concert at the Hollywood Bowl.
Program Notes. The Metro Goldwyn Mayer Fanfare was composed by Franz Waxman and first heard before the “Main Title” of Fritz Lang’s Fury (1936); the first of seven Spencer Tracy films Waxman would score . It has introduced Metro Goldwyn Mayer films over the decades with the help of “Leo the Lion” who can also be heard in the first ...
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Franz Waxman, 1906–1967:A Biographical Memoir by John W. Waxman. Franz Waxman led a variety of musical lives as composer, conductor, and impresario. He was born in Konigshutte, Upper Silesia, Germany, on 24 December 1906, and was the youngest of seven children. No one in the family was musical except Franz, who started piano lessons at the ...
Known as a ‘woman’s director’, by that time, Cukor and Hepburn had made four films together: A Bill of Divorcement (1932), Little Women (1933), Sylvia Scarlett (1935) and Holiday (1938), the latter two, co-starring Grant. Waxman’s music for The Philadelphia Story, beginning with his fanfare over the growling MGM lion, and subsequent ...
