They All Came to Hollywood
Professor Carol
English - March 06, 2007 16:15 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPerforming Arts Arts Music musicappreciation classicalmusic education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Hollywood is heir to the European musical traditions. The classic films
were scored by composers trained in Europe and schooled in the
classical traditions and by immigrant composers who escaped Germany
after their work was denounced by the Nazis as "degenerate music" (Entartete Musik).
Works Discussed: Bernard Herrmann: Psycho, Vertigo; Erich Korngold: Robin Hood; Aaron Copland: Red Pony; Virgil Thompson: The Plow that Broke the Plains