FILM MUSIC NOTES: Volume 7
September-October 1947 to May-June 1948
LEGEND: Asterisk (*) means article includes musical examples. Info in (parentheses) is the author of the article. Info in {curly brackets} is the composer connected with that article. If the composer and author are the same, there is a double bracket ({like this}). Info in [square brackets] is additional information about the article. Comments? Corrections? Questions? E-mail me via this link – Mike Quigley
Issues in this section have been obtained with the kind help of The Film Music Society and a person who wishes to remain anonymous.(§).
FILM MUSIC NOTES – SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1947 – VOLUME 7, NUMBER 1§
Cover: Paul Henreid as Robert Schumann; Contents
- Message from the National Film Music Council
- News and Comments
- Summer Films
- Teaching Possibilities: Song of Love* {Liszt, Schumann & Brahms}; Tubby the Tuba {George Kleinsinger}. (Stanlie McConnell)
- The Music Makers (Lawrence Morton)
- 16mm Films, News and Developments (James F. Nickerson)
- Planning a Film Program (Arthur Knight)
- Afterthoughts (Sigmund Spaeth)
- Current Film Reviews: Fun and Fancy Free (Jack Bachon, mus. editor); Black Narcissus (Brian Easdale); The Fugitive (Richard Hageman); Kiss of Death (David Buttolph); Tammy Pipit (Noel Newton-Wood).
FILM MUSIC NOTES – NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1947 – VOLUME 7, NUMBER 2§
Cover: Robert Mitchell Boy Choir, unidentified film (see page 17); Contents
- Message From The National Film Music Council
- Film Music in Ohio (Edith M. Keller)
- William Alwyn (John Huntley)
- News and Comments
- Forever Amber* – Notes on the Musical Score (David Raksin)
- David Raksin's Score for "Forever Amber"* (Louis Applebaum)
- The Music Makers (Lawrence Morton)
- Hollywood Boy Choirs: St. Luke's Choristers, Mitchell Boychoir
- Odd Man Out (William Alwyn)
- Teaching Possibilities in Current Films: Rehearsal* (Bell Telephone Company 16mm film)
- 16mm Films, News and Developments
- Current Film Reviews: [The first 5 films are dealt with only briefly.] Golden Earrings (Victor Young); Life with Father (Max Steiner); Ride the Pink Horse (Frank Skinner); The Lost Moment (Daniele Amfitheatrof); Man About Town (George Van Parys); The Bishop's Wife* and Body and Soul* (both Hugo Friedhofer); Gentlemen's Agreement* (Alfred Newman); Nicholas Nickleby (Lord Berners); [The Swordsman, which is in the Contents, is not here.]; Escape Me Never (Erich Wolfgang Korngold).
FILM MUSIC NOTES – JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1948 – VOLUME 7, NUMBER 3
Cover: Captain From Castile (small picture); Contents
- To Our Readers
- News and Comments
- Teaching Composition for the Cinema (Miklós Rózsa)
- Notes on the Musical Score – Forever Amber* ({David Raksin})
- The Music Makers (Lawrence Morton)
- The Great Glinka (Lan Andomian)
- Mourning Becomes Electra {Richard Hageman} (Louis Applebaum)
- Current Films: Captain From Castile (Alfred Newman); The Paradine Case (Franz Waxman); The Secret Beyond the Door (Miklós Rózsa); I Know Where I'm Going (Allan Gray); Ride the Pink Horse (Frank Skinner & David Tamkin). (William Hamilton)
- 16mm Films, News and Developments
- Symphonie Fantastique {Hector Berlioz] (John Huntley)
- Afterthoughts (Sigmund Spaeth)
FILM MUSIC NOTES – MARCH-APRIL 1948 – VOLUME 7, NUMBER 4§
Cover: Ivan Jandl and Montgomery Clift in The Search; Contents
- National Film Music Council Message
- Film Music News
- News from Britain (John Huntley)
- Film Music Session at MTNA in Boston (Frederick W. Sternfeld)
- Radio Programs of Film Music
- Atlantis* (Michel Michelet)
- Film Music in the Fleisher Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia (Arthur Cohn)
- Commission on Motion Picture Plans for Music Films (R.S. Hadsell)
- Documentary Film Music (Muir Mathieson)
- The Pearl (Lan Adomnian)
- Current Films: Call Northside 777 (Alfred Newman); The Search* (Robert Blum); Treasure of the Sierra Madre* (Max Steiner); (Picture of A Double Life, Miklós Rózsa). (Reviews by William Hamilton)
- The Lighter Films: Glamour Girl (Mischa Bakaleinikoff, mus. dir.); My Wild Irish Rose (Leo F. Forbstein, mus. dir.); Good News (Lennie Hayton, mus. dir.); My Girl Tisa (Max Steiner; Leo F. Forbstein, mus. dir.); Summer Holiday (Lennie Hayton, mus. dir.); April Showers (Leo F. Forbstein, mus. dir.); You Were Meant For Me (Lionel Newman, mus. dir.); Three Daring Daughters (Georgie Stoll, mus. dir.); Bill and Coo (David Buttolph; Lionel Newman, mus. dir.); I Remember Mama (Roy Webb; C. Bakaleinikoff, mus. dir.); Road to Rio (Robert Emmett Dolan, mus. dir.).
- A Library Service
- 16mm Films, News and Developments (James F. Nickerson)
- Global Music (Paul Duffield)
- Afterthoughts (Sigmund Spaeth)
FILM MUSIC NOTES – MAY-JUNE 1948 – VOLUME 7, NUMBER 5
Cover: The Brothers; Contents
- To Our Readers
- Film Music News
- Film Music in the Main Stream (Lawrence Morton)
- Arch of Triumph* {Louis Gruenberg}
- Current Films: Beauty and the Beast (Georges Auric); The Brothers (Cedric Thorpe Davie); Smart Woman (Louis Gruenberg); Winter Meeting (Max Steiner). (Reviews by Harold Brown)
- Family Films: Up in Central Park (Johnny Green, mus. dir.); On an Island With You (Georgie Stoll, mus. dir.); The Pirate (Lennie Hayton, mus. dir.); The Emperor Waltz (Victor Young); The Big City (Georgie Stoll, mus. dir.); Green Grass of Wyoming (Cyril Mockridge); Fighting Father Dunne (Roy Webb); Adventures in Silverado (George Duning). (M.H.)
- Film Councils in America (Emily B. Jones)
- Music Educators National Conference Report (Keith D. Snyder)
- 16mm Film News – Developments – Reviews (James F. Nickerson)
- The Iron Curtain* ({Alfred Newman}) (excerpts from works by Soviet composers)
NOTE: A "special issue" for the 1947 film Carnegie Hall was published, which is 13 pages long, including cover. There is no indication that this issue is part of the regular publication schedule. To see the Carnegie Hall issue, click here.
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