Listen to Roll Credits for Monday June 20, 2011:
Let the spirit of boilerplate movie trailer narrative guide us:
In a world dominated by the classics, an intrepid band of composers, speaking with a cinematic accent, emerges once a week during high summer, to evoke tribal tales of cowboys, and comedies, and Kansas tornadoes.
And, as you know--since they're your tales, and your memories--so much more.
On Monday nights all summer long, we'll steal an hour from the Canon of classical music, and get away to the movies.
Lynne Warfel, an unabashed fan (as she'll confess to all the world!) of film scores and their stories, will join me. And to get started tonight, we'll look into what was in the Hollywood water on the eve of World War II. The single year 1939 gave us Gone With the Wind, Stagecoach, Wuthering Heights, Of Mice and Men, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and The Wizard of Oz, among others. Steiner, Herrmann, Copland, Tiomkin, Arlen. And that's just the beginning.
Join us Mondays at 8 for Roll Credits, on Classical Minnesota Public Radio.
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