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March 2019
Magnificent Movie Music! – Series Tickets
Dr. Rachel Franklin presents Magnificent Movie Music! In a new 4-part series “Classical Sounds of the Cinema” we explore this massive, yet barely-noticed component of movie scoring: the use of pre-composed classical music. Since the beginning of the “talkies,” directors have reached for the music library stacks.
Find out more »Magnificent Movie Music – Mozart Goes to Hollywood
Directors have picked great classical concert works to enhance and underpin their films. If it’s Handel, there must be corsets and wigs!
Find out more »Magnificent Movie Music – Beethoven the Myth
Why Beethoven? And why so much of him?? We dive into Beethoven’s very busy side-gig, the sound-tracking of hundreds of films.
Find out more »Magnificent Movie Music – Classical Crossover
Classical Crossover: exploring groundbreaking film scores by concert hall composers Shostakovich, Bernstein, Copland, Corigliano, Gershwin, Walton, Prokofiev, each a giant of the concert hall, with much of the 20th century’s most important classical work to their credit.
Find out more »Magnificent Movie Music – Oscars, Opera and Irony, Luke Skywalker and Bugs Bunny, Facebook and Farm Animals
The fusion of classical music into popular culture is so complete that most listeners have absolutely no idea where their favorite tropes come from.
Find out more »April 2019
Framed with Sheryl Southwick
Dr. Rachel Franklin presents Magnificent Movie Music! In a new 4-part series “Classical Sounds of the Cinema” we explore this massive, yet barely-noticed component of movie scoring: the use of pre-composed classical music. Since the beginning of the “talkies,” directors have reached for the music library stacks.
Find out more »Kittredge-Wilson Lecture: Scott Shields
The catalogue focuses on Diebenkorn’s evolution to maturity. It features nearly 200 paintings and drawings, many from the archives of the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation, that precede his shift to figuration.
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