wimpel69
09-24-2014, 12:37 PM
The FLAC file is back. Please inquire the link by posting in this thread.
PMs will be ignored. This is my rip. Front cover & composer bio included.
The Spirit of St. Louis is a 1957 biographical film directed by Billy Wilder and starring James Stewart as
Charles Lindbergh. The screenplay was adapted by Charles Lederer, Wendell Mayes, and Billy Wilder from
Lindbergh's 1953 autobiographical account of his historic flight, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1954. Along
with reminiscences of his early days in aviation, the film depicts Lindbergh's historic 33-hour transatlantic flight
in the Spirit of St. Louis monoplane from his take off at Roosevelt Field to his landing at Le Bourget Field in
Paris on May 21, 1927.
The Story of Ruth is a 1960 American historical romance film directed by Henry Koster, shot in CinemaScope
(color by DeLuxe Color), and released by 20th Century Fox. The screenplay, written by Norman Corwin, is an
adaptation of the biblical Book of Ruth. The film stars Stuart Whitman as Boaz, Tom Tryon as Mahlon, Peggy Wood
as Naomi, Viveca Lindfors as Eleilat, Jeff Morrow as Tob, and introduces Elana Eden as Ruth.
This album does not simply feature excerpts from the two Franz Waxman scores, but concert scenarios /
symphonic poems for narrator and orchestra, specially arranged by James Forsyth for this recording.
Music Composed by
Franz Waxman
Played by the
Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin
With
George Shirley (narrator)
Conducted by
Lawrence Foster
"Franz Waxman led a variety of musical lives as composer, conductor and impresario. He was born in Konigshutte,
Upper Silesia, Germany, on December 24, 1906, and was the youngest of six children. No one in the family was
musical except Franz, who started piano lessons at the age of seven. His father was an industrialist, and not
believing his son could earn a living in music, encouraged him in a banking career. He worked for two and a half
years as a teller and used his salary to pay for lessons in piano, harmony and composition. He then quit the
bank and moved to Dresden and then to Berlin to study music.
During this period he paid for his musical education by playing piano in nightclubs and with the Weintraub
Syncopaters, a popular jazz band of the late 1920s. While with the band he began to do their arrangements,
and this led to orchestrating some early German musical films. Frederick Hollander, who had written some music
for the Weintraubs, gave Waxman his first important movie assignment: orchestrating and conducting Hollander’s
score for Josef von Sternberg’s classic film, “The Blue Angel.” The film’s producer, Erich Pommer, who was also
head of the UFA Studios in Berlin, was so pleased with the orchestration of the score that he gave Waxman
his first major composing assignment: Fritz Lang’s version of “Liliom” (1933) which was filmed in Paris after
their exodus from Germany. Pommer’s next assignment, Jerome Kern’s “Music in the Air” (Fox Films, 1934),
took him to the United States, and he brought Waxman with him to arrange the music.
Waxman’s first original Hollywood score was James Whale’s “The Bride of Frankenstein” (1935), which led
to a two-year contract with Universal as head of the music department. He scored a dozen of the more
than 50 Universal films on which he worked as music director. Among the best known are “Magnificent
Obsession, “Diamond Jim” and “The Invisible Ray.”
Two years after he went to Hollywood, Waxman, then 30, signed a seven-year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer to compose. He averaged about seven pictures a year, and it was during this period that he scored
such famous Spencer Tracy films as “Captains Courageous,” “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and “Woman of the Year.”
In 1937, he was loaned by M-G-M to David O. Selznick for “The Young at Heart” and was nominated for both
Best Original Music and Best Score – the first two of 12 Academy Award nominations he was to receive for
the 144 films he scored in his 32 years in Hollywood. In 1940 he was again loaned to Selznick, this time
for “Rebecca,” and was nominated for his third Academy Award.
Waxman left M-G-M in 1943 and began a long association with Warner Brothers. “Old Acquaintance”
is from this period. (Selections from three more of his Warner Brothers scores can be heard on RCA albums:
“Mr. Skeffington” is included in “Classic Film Scores for Bette Davis,” “To Have and Have Not,” and “The
Two Mrs. Carrolls” are included in “Casablanca – Classic Film Scores for Humphrey Bogart, and “Objective,
Burma!” are on “Captive Blood” – Classic Film Scores for Errol Flynn)
In 1947 Waxman founded the Los Angeles International Music Festival, which he was to head for 20 years.
World and American premieres of 80 major works by composers such as Stravinsky, Walton, Vaughan
Williams, Shostakovitch and Schoenberg were given at the festival.
By 1947 Waxman had a busy schedule indeed. In addition to devoting a great deal of time to the festival,
he was in demand at all the major studios, was guest conducting symphony orchestras in Europe as well
as in the United States and was composing concert music. For the film “Humoresque” he wrote a special
piece based on themes from Bizet’s “Carmen,” which was played by Isaac Stern on the soundtrack. The
“Carmen Fantasie” has become standard repertoire and was recorded by Jascha Heifetz for RCA. Among
Waxman’s other concert works are “Overture for Trumpet and Orchestra,” based on themes from “The
Horn Blows at Midnight;” “Sinfonietta for String Orchestra and Timpani;” a dramatic song cycle “The
Song of Terezin,” and an oratorio, “Joshua.”
Waxman won the Academy Award in 1950 for Billy Wilder’s “Sunset Boulevard” and in 1951 for George
Stevens’ “A Place in the Sun.” For over half a century, he was the only composer to have won the award
for Best Score in two successive years. It was during the ’50s and ’60s that he composed some of his
most important and varied scores. These are represented by the above two Academy Award winners
as well as by “Prince Valiant” and “Taras Bulba.” He had usually been associated with romantic films,
but now he progressed to epic and jazz-oriented scores. “Crime in the Streets,” “The Spirit of St. Louis,”
“Sayonara,” “Peyton Place” and “The Nun’s Story” are also from this period and the complete scores
were issued on soundtrack albums. Franz Waxman received many honors during his lifetime, including
the Cross of Merit from the Federal Republic of West Germany, honorary memberships in the Mahler
Society and the International Society of Arts and Letters, and an honorary doctorate of letters and
humanities from Columbia College. He died February 24, 1967, in Los Angeles at the age of 60.
Together with Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Max Steiner, Dimitri Tiomkin, Bernard Herrmann and Alfred
Newman a United States postage stamp was issued in 1999. During the recent Waxman centenary
a street in his birthplace was named Franz Waxmanstrasse. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts &
Sciences and Turner Classic Movies held tributes. The Museum of Modern Art in New York presented
a 24 picture retrospective; this was the first time that MoMA honored a composer. The Chicago
Symphony Orchestra recently performed the complete score THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN
live to film."
John Waxman
Source: Capriccio Recordsw CD (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 253 MB
The FLAC file is back. Please inquire the link by posting in this thread.
PMs will be ignored. This is my rip. Front cover & composer bio included.
Enjoy! Don't share! Buy the original! :)
PMs will be ignored. This is my rip. Front cover & composer bio included.
The Spirit of St. Louis is a 1957 biographical film directed by Billy Wilder and starring James Stewart as
Charles Lindbergh. The screenplay was adapted by Charles Lederer, Wendell Mayes, and Billy Wilder from
Lindbergh's 1953 autobiographical account of his historic flight, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1954. Along
with reminiscences of his early days in aviation, the film depicts Lindbergh's historic 33-hour transatlantic flight
in the Spirit of St. Louis monoplane from his take off at Roosevelt Field to his landing at Le Bourget Field in
Paris on May 21, 1927.
The Story of Ruth is a 1960 American historical romance film directed by Henry Koster, shot in CinemaScope
(color by DeLuxe Color), and released by 20th Century Fox. The screenplay, written by Norman Corwin, is an
adaptation of the biblical Book of Ruth. The film stars Stuart Whitman as Boaz, Tom Tryon as Mahlon, Peggy Wood
as Naomi, Viveca Lindfors as Eleilat, Jeff Morrow as Tob, and introduces Elana Eden as Ruth.
This album does not simply feature excerpts from the two Franz Waxman scores, but concert scenarios /
symphonic poems for narrator and orchestra, specially arranged by James Forsyth for this recording.
Music Composed by
Franz Waxman
Played by the
Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin
With
George Shirley (narrator)
Conducted by
Lawrence Foster
"Franz Waxman led a variety of musical lives as composer, conductor and impresario. He was born in Konigshutte,
Upper Silesia, Germany, on December 24, 1906, and was the youngest of six children. No one in the family was
musical except Franz, who started piano lessons at the age of seven. His father was an industrialist, and not
believing his son could earn a living in music, encouraged him in a banking career. He worked for two and a half
years as a teller and used his salary to pay for lessons in piano, harmony and composition. He then quit the
bank and moved to Dresden and then to Berlin to study music.
During this period he paid for his musical education by playing piano in nightclubs and with the Weintraub
Syncopaters, a popular jazz band of the late 1920s. While with the band he began to do their arrangements,
and this led to orchestrating some early German musical films. Frederick Hollander, who had written some music
for the Weintraubs, gave Waxman his first important movie assignment: orchestrating and conducting Hollander’s
score for Josef von Sternberg’s classic film, “The Blue Angel.” The film’s producer, Erich Pommer, who was also
head of the UFA Studios in Berlin, was so pleased with the orchestration of the score that he gave Waxman
his first major composing assignment: Fritz Lang’s version of “Liliom” (1933) which was filmed in Paris after
their exodus from Germany. Pommer’s next assignment, Jerome Kern’s “Music in the Air” (Fox Films, 1934),
took him to the United States, and he brought Waxman with him to arrange the music.
Waxman’s first original Hollywood score was James Whale’s “The Bride of Frankenstein” (1935), which led
to a two-year contract with Universal as head of the music department. He scored a dozen of the more
than 50 Universal films on which he worked as music director. Among the best known are “Magnificent
Obsession, “Diamond Jim” and “The Invisible Ray.”
Two years after he went to Hollywood, Waxman, then 30, signed a seven-year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer to compose. He averaged about seven pictures a year, and it was during this period that he scored
such famous Spencer Tracy films as “Captains Courageous,” “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and “Woman of the Year.”
In 1937, he was loaned by M-G-M to David O. Selznick for “The Young at Heart” and was nominated for both
Best Original Music and Best Score – the first two of 12 Academy Award nominations he was to receive for
the 144 films he scored in his 32 years in Hollywood. In 1940 he was again loaned to Selznick, this time
for “Rebecca,” and was nominated for his third Academy Award.
Waxman left M-G-M in 1943 and began a long association with Warner Brothers. “Old Acquaintance”
is from this period. (Selections from three more of his Warner Brothers scores can be heard on RCA albums:
“Mr. Skeffington” is included in “Classic Film Scores for Bette Davis,” “To Have and Have Not,” and “The
Two Mrs. Carrolls” are included in “Casablanca – Classic Film Scores for Humphrey Bogart, and “Objective,
Burma!” are on “Captive Blood” – Classic Film Scores for Errol Flynn)
In 1947 Waxman founded the Los Angeles International Music Festival, which he was to head for 20 years.
World and American premieres of 80 major works by composers such as Stravinsky, Walton, Vaughan
Williams, Shostakovitch and Schoenberg were given at the festival.
By 1947 Waxman had a busy schedule indeed. In addition to devoting a great deal of time to the festival,
he was in demand at all the major studios, was guest conducting symphony orchestras in Europe as well
as in the United States and was composing concert music. For the film “Humoresque” he wrote a special
piece based on themes from Bizet’s “Carmen,” which was played by Isaac Stern on the soundtrack. The
“Carmen Fantasie” has become standard repertoire and was recorded by Jascha Heifetz for RCA. Among
Waxman’s other concert works are “Overture for Trumpet and Orchestra,” based on themes from “The
Horn Blows at Midnight;” “Sinfonietta for String Orchestra and Timpani;” a dramatic song cycle “The
Song of Terezin,” and an oratorio, “Joshua.”
Waxman won the Academy Award in 1950 for Billy Wilder’s “Sunset Boulevard” and in 1951 for George
Stevens’ “A Place in the Sun.” For over half a century, he was the only composer to have won the award
for Best Score in two successive years. It was during the ’50s and ’60s that he composed some of his
most important and varied scores. These are represented by the above two Academy Award winners
as well as by “Prince Valiant” and “Taras Bulba.” He had usually been associated with romantic films,
but now he progressed to epic and jazz-oriented scores. “Crime in the Streets,” “The Spirit of St. Louis,”
“Sayonara,” “Peyton Place” and “The Nun’s Story” are also from this period and the complete scores
were issued on soundtrack albums. Franz Waxman received many honors during his lifetime, including
the Cross of Merit from the Federal Republic of West Germany, honorary memberships in the Mahler
Society and the International Society of Arts and Letters, and an honorary doctorate of letters and
humanities from Columbia College. He died February 24, 1967, in Los Angeles at the age of 60.
Together with Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Max Steiner, Dimitri Tiomkin, Bernard Herrmann and Alfred
Newman a United States postage stamp was issued in 1999. During the recent Waxman centenary
a street in his birthplace was named Franz Waxmanstrasse. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts &
Sciences and Turner Classic Movies held tributes. The Museum of Modern Art in New York presented
a 24 picture retrospective; this was the first time that MoMA honored a composer. The Chicago
Symphony Orchestra recently performed the complete score THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN
live to film."
John Waxman
Source: Capriccio Recordsw CD (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 253 MB
The FLAC file is back. Please inquire the link by posting in this thread.
PMs will be ignored. This is my rip. Front cover & composer bio included.
Enjoy! Don't share! Buy the original! :)