Explore Movie Music and Piano Megastars

Posted on Sep 17, 2013

This September on EXPLORING MUSIC (weekdays 1000), Bill McGlaughlin celebrates quality music of the cinema. The series “I Lost it at the Movies” the week of September 23 includes Saint-Saens’ vintage score for L’Assasinat du duc de Guise; the Golden Age glories of Hollywood scores by Erich Korngold and Franz Waxman; the timeless themes of Ennio Morricone, Maurice Jarre, and John Barry; and the oriental strains of Tan Dun.

The week of September 30, the program explores “The Piano Concerto” — the works that showed off the thundering virtuosity of some of the great composer/pianists that gave rise to music’s first superstars.