Miklos Rozsa: Cross Composer
Miklos Rozsa was one of Hollywood's most celebrated composers. His work on film noir classics in the 40's and epic films in the 50's was, and still is, well known. But it turns out Rozsa had another...
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The year 2000 has been a big one for American musical centennials: Aaron Copland...Louis Armstrong...but there's still time to squeeze in one more musical American who, as Sara Fishko tells us, went...
View ArticleAmram’s Old Score
David Amram has written SO much music in his years as a composer, its almost inevitableas Sara Fishko tells usthat one of his old scores should come back to life. Nevertheless, he appears to be...
View ArticleHugo Friedhofer
In May it will be twenty-five years since Hugo Friedhofer died. He was one of America’s most interesting composers, and his death was roundly ignored. Sara Fishko thinks its about time somebody...
View ArticleLeonard Rosenman
Film composer Leonard Rosenman died this past spring at age 83. He won Oscars for his adaptations of existing music for movies such as Barry Lyndon and Bound for Glory, but it was Rosenman’s original...
View ArticleWhistling
Originally aired on the occasion of the 2007 Academy Awards, this edition of the Fishko recognizes celebrated film composer Ennio Morricone, who received a special Oscar that year. Many of the...
View ArticleAlex North
A new staging of the play Death of a Salesman opened last night on Broadway, with incidental music by Alex North. The score goes back 63 years to the play’s original production. In today’s Fishko...
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