Double Lives: Film Composers in the Concert Hall: Film Composers in the Concert Hall

ISBN-13: 9780367661397 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 254 str.

James Wierzbicki

Opis

Double Lives: Film Composers in the Concert Hall is a collection of fifteen essays dealing with ‘iconic’ film composers who, perhaps surprisingly, maintained life-long careers as composers for the concert hall.

Spis treści

1. Erich Wolfgang Korngold: The Last Prodigy - Brendan G. Carroll 2. The Concert Works of Georges Auric, 1945 to 1983 - Colin Roust 3. Looking for Mr. Hyde: Franz Waxman’s Musical Activities beyond Film - Ingeborg Zechner  4. The Double Life of Miklós Rózsa’s Violin Concerto and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes - Stephen Meyer  5. Bernard Herrmann’s Concert Music, 1935 to 1975: An Overview - Samuel Cottell  6. Nino Rota: Neo-Classicist, Classical Modernist, or Pragmatic Pluralist? - Carl Alexander Vincent  7. Jerome Moross: The Concert Hall and Stage Works - Mariana Whitmer  8. Don Banks: Hammer Horror and Serial Composition - Michael Hooper 9. Modern Composer Off the Screen: Leonard Rosenman’s Concert Music - Reba A. Wissner  10. The Maestro of Multiple Voices: The ‘Absolute Music’ of Ennio Morricone - Felicity Wilcox  11. ‘I Did It for Fun’: André Previn, Crossover Musician - Frédéric Döhl 12. Wojciech Kilar: ‘I Am Like a Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde’ - Bogumila Mika 13. Alberto Iglesias: The Spanish Composer behind Pedro Almodóvar’s Films - María Ángeles Ferrer-Forés  14. Johannes factotum: Jóhann Jóhannson - Vasco Hexel 15. Laura Rossi’s War Musics - Kendra Preston Leonard

O autorze

James Wierzbicki is an associate professor of musicology at the University of Sydney.