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Included in 4-CD set Captains Courageous: The Franz Waxman Collection with Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, Woman Of The Year, Fury, Suspicion, King Of The Roaring 20’s
Waxman’s score for Rear Window (Paramount, 1954) was actually a brilliant and carefully orchestrated collection of popular songs and melodies designed to provide a backdrop to the action. In addition to the conventional film accompaniment, much of the score is intended to serve as diegetic background music heard in the apartment complex.
It was Franz Waxman’s music, originally written for The Bride of Frankenstein (1935). Up until 1938, the American Federation of Musicians allowed the reuse of any music in the studio library for any studio film. What made Waxman’s score so adaptable for re-working was the composer’s, extraordinary for its time, use of symphonic music for ...
Category:Waxman, Franz. Works are generally in the public domain in Canada (where IMSLP is hosted) if the creator died in 1971 or earlier. Works by this person are not in the public domain in countries with a life+70 copyright term (including all EU countries), unless an exception applies. In the United States, all works first published before ...
When the Museum of Modern Art honored Waxman on the occasion of his centenary in 2006, Crime in the Streets played to SRO audiences. The Don Siegel film, not unlike West Side Story (1957), is about rival gangs in New York. The amazing cast includes John Cassavetes, Sal Mineo, James Whitmore, Mark Rydell and Virginia Gregg.
In October 2017, the City of Opole in Poland unveiled a plaque to honor Franz Waxman at the home where he lived with his family from 1915 until he left for Dresden to attend music school. The plaque was unveiled by Mayor Arkadiusz Wiśniewski. In conjunction with the unveiling, Silesian television aired a brief documentary on his early life in ...
The Ride of the Cossacks is, simply put, one of the great pieces of 20th century film music. Taras and his sons have left the farm, and are on their way to Dubno for battle. En route, as more and more Cossack brothers join the hard riding Bulba, and become a sabre-wielding horde, the music increases in volume and orchestral effects.