FILM MUSIC NOTES: Volume 2
(October 1942 to June 1943)
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
FILM MUSIC NOTES – OCTOBER 1942 – VOLUME 2, NUMBER 1
- Foreword
- News Items; Comments
- The Importance of Motion Picture Music (Sigmund Spaeth)
- Music in Government Films (Gail Kubik)
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: The World at War (Gail Kubik); March of Time; Women in Defense; Winning Your Wings; Wings and the Woman (William Walwyn); Wake Island (David Buttolph); Wings for the Eagle (Frederick Hollander, arr.); Journey Into Fear (Constantin Bakaleinikoff, Roy Webb); Eagle Squadron (Charles Previn); Mrs. Miniver (Herbert Stothart); Suicide Squadron (Richard Addinsell); Desperate Journey (Max Steiner); Pride of the Yankees (Leigh Harline); The Pied Piper (Alfred Newman); Seven Sweeathearts (Franz Waxman); Spring Song (Dmitri Kabalvesky [plus other films]. (Reviews by Grace Widney Mabee & Adelaide Gescheidt)
FILM MUSIC NOTES – NOVEMBER 1942 – VOLUME 2, NUMBER 2
- Foreword
- News Items; Looking Forward
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: Battle of Midway (Alfred Newman); Across the Pacific (Adolph Deutsch); The Moon and Sixpence (Dimitri Tiomkin); The Major and the Minor (Robert Emmett Dolan); Now, Voyager (Max Steiner); My Sister Eileen (Morris Stoloff); For Me and My Gal (Georgie Stoll, mus. dir.); Get Hep to Love (Charles Previn, mus. dir.); Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (Victor Young); George Washington Slept Here. (Adolph Deutsch). (Reviews by Grace Widney Mabee & Adelaide Gescheidt)
- Musical Shorts: The Swan; Music of the Masters.
- Notes on Jacaré. ({Miklós Rózsa})
- Jacaré (Killer of the Amazon) (Sigmund Spaeth)
- Special Article (Constantin Bakaleinikoff, Director of Music Department of RKO-Radio)
- Additional Reviews: Flying Tigers (Victor Young); Moscow Strikes Back. (Dimitri Tiomkin). Short reviews of other movies: Henry Aldrich, Editor (Leo Shuken); Street of Chance (David Buttolph); Girl Trouble (Alfred Newman; David Buttolph & Leigh Harline, uncred.); The Hard Way (Heinz Roemheld); Cairo (Arthur Schwartz, Yip Harburg, Harold Arlen, composers; Georgie Stoll, mus. dir.); Springtime in the Rockies. (Charles Henderson & Alfred Newman, uncred.). (Reviews by Grace Widney Mabee & Adelaide Gescheidt?)
- Shorts
FILM MUSIC NOTES – DECEMBER 1942 – VOLUME 2, NUMBER 3
- Foreword
- News Items; Commendations
- Discussion of Commandos Strike at Dawn by Louis Gruenberg, with review by Harry Mines (Los Angeles Daily News)
- An Appeal to the Educators of Music in Schools, Colleges, Universities (Mabee, Purdy)
- Interesting Facts Regarding the Use of Music in Pictures: Anchors Aweigh (); Keep 'Em Rolling (); The Caissons Go Rolling Along (); Tanks. (Gail Kubik)
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: The Avengers (Richard Addinsell); The Black Swan (Alfred Newman); Cat People (Roy Webb); China Girl (Alfred Newman); Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant (Daniele Amfitheatrof); I Married A Witch (Roy Webb); Journey for Margaret (Franz Waxman); Life Begins at 8:30 (Alfred Newman); My Heart Belongs to Daddy (Victor Young); Once Upon a Honeymoon (Emmett Dolan); One of Our Aircraft is Missing (no score); The Palm Beach Story (Victor Young); Pittsburgh (Charles Previn, mus.dir.); Random Harvest (Herbert Stothart); Reunion (Franz Waxman); Road to Morocco (Victor Young); Seven Miles from Alcatraz (Roy Webb); Silver Queen (Edward Ward); Strictly in the Groove (Charles Previn); The Undying Monster (Emil Newman & David Raksin); Whistling in Dixie. (Lennie Hayton). (Reviews by Grace Widney Mabee & Adelaide Gescheidt)
- Victory Shorts (includes "Japanese Relocation: Shows the standard America is setting for the rest of the world in treatment of people with loyalties to enemy nations.") [!!!]
FILM MUSIC NOTES – JANUARY 1943 – VOLUME 2, NUMBER 4
- Foreword
- News Items; Commendations (includes A Note on the Music of In Which We Serve by Sigmund Spaeth)
- Important Films Released by Office of War Information: Bomber (Jack Shaindlin); Lake Carrier (Paul Creston & Morris Mamorsky); Men and Ships (Gail Kubik; NYPO cond. by Alexander Smallens); Ring of Steel (Morton Gould); Salvage (Arthur Kreutz); Manpower (Gail Kubik); Colleges at War (Gail Kubik); Dover (Gail Kubik).
- The Music Scoring of The March of Time ({Jack Shaindlin})
- Max Steiner Comments on Film Scoring
- Music of the Americas (Charles Wolcott, music director at Disney)
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: Saludos Amigos (Charles Wolcott); Arabian Nights (Charles Previn & Frank Skinner, mus. dirs.); Casablanca (Max Steiner); Commandos Strike at Dawn (Louis Gruenberg & Moriss Stoloff); The Powers Girl (Jule Styne); Keeper of the Flame (Bronislau Kaper); Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (Charles Previn); Stand by for Action (Lennie Hayton); Tennessee Johnson (Herbert Stothart); They Got Me Covered (Leigh Harline, mus. dir.); When Johnny Comes Marching Home (Ted Cain); You Were Never Lovelier (Leigh Harlin, mus. dir.). Short Subjects: Education For Death (Oliver Wallace, mus. dir.); Der Fuehrer's Face (Oliver Wallace); We Are The Marines (Jack Shaindlin). (Reviews by Grace Widney Mabee & Adelaide Gescheidt)
FILM MUSIC NOTES – FEBRUARY 1943 – VOLUME 2, NUMBER 5
[Pages 6 and 7 are duplicated]
- Foreword
- News Items; Commendations
- Screen Music Assumes New Stature (Nat W. Finston, Head of Music Dept., M-G-M)
- Notes from Mr. Louis Lipstone, Musical Director of Paramount (Interviewed by Margery Hamilton)
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: Hitler's Children (Roy Webb); The Meanest Man in the World (Emil Newman); Shadow of a Doubt (Charles Previn); Chetniks (Hugo Friedhofer & Emil Newman, mus. dirs.); Happy Go Lucky (Robert Emmett Dolan, Frank Loesser & Jimmie McHugh, mus. dirs.); Immortal Sergeant (David Buttolph); Three Hearts for Julia (Herbert Stothart, mus. dir.); Star Spangled Rhythm (Robert Emmett Dolan, Johnnie Mercer & Harold Arlen, mus. dirs.); Air Force (Franz Waxman); The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (Charles Previn). (Reviews by Grace Widney Mabee & Adelaide Gescheidt)
- Auroratone Motion Picture Productions
- Composers of Film Music (Rózsa) [omitted?]
- The American Scene: Today and Yesterday [omitted?]
FILM MUSIC NOTES – MARCH 1943 – VOLUME 2, NUMBER 6
- Foreword
- News Items
- Procedure of Preparing a Musical Score for A Picture (Alfred Newman)
- Notes on the Background and Previous Work of Alfred Newman
- Jose Iturbi Comes to the Screen
- Shostakovich: Film Composer (Jay Leyda)
- Albert Coates to Help Score "Russia"
- Information on Films Released by the Office of War Information: Paratroops (Gail Kubik); Farmers at War (Gail Kubik); Our Lady of Paris (composer unknown). (Article by Gail Kubik)
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: A Stranger in Town (David Snell); Cabin in the Sky (Georgie Stoll, mus. dir.); Flight for Freedom (Roy Webb & Constantin Bakaleinikoff); Something to Shout About (Moriss Stoloff, mus. dir.); Somewhere in France (William Walton; Ernest Irving, mus. dir.) (Reviews by Grace Widney Mabee & Adelaide Gescheidt)
- Academy Award Music Winners: Best Scoring of Musical Picture; Best Scoring of Dramatic Picture; Best Song; Academy Awards Music Candidates.
FILM MUSIC NOTES – APRIL 1943 – VOLUME 2, NUMBER 7
- Foreword
- News Items; Commendations
- A Visit to the Music Recording Stage at Warner Bros. (Margery Morrison)
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: Assignment in Brittany (Lennie Hayton); The Desperadoes (John Leipold; Morris Stoloff, mus. dir.; Sidney Cutner, orch.); Edge of Darkness (Franz Waxman) [with comment by Sigmund Spaeth]; Harrigan's Kid (David Snell); Hello, Frisco, Hello (David Buttolph, uncred., Emil Newman, mus. dir.; Charles Henderson); Hit Parade of 1943 (Walter Scharf); The Human Comedy (Herbert Stothart); The Moon is Down (Alfred Newman); This Land is Mine (Lothar Perl; Constantin Bakaleinikoff, mus. dir.); One Day of War in Russia; Plan for Destruction (Nathaniel Shilkret). (Reviews by Grace Widney Mabee & Adelaide Gescheidt)
- Films Recommended from a Musical Point of View by the Hollywood and New York Preview Committees
- What Music Arranging Does for the Pictures (Vernon Leftwich)(
FILM MUSIC NOTES – MAY 1943 – VOLUME 2, NUMBER 8
- Foreword
- News Items; Comments
- National Association for American Composers and Conductors Shows a Practical Interest in Film Music
- A Note on the Seventh Symphony of Shostakovich (Sigmund Spaeth)
- Meremblum's California Junior Symphony Orchestra (Naomi Reynolds)
- Music in Universal Pictures (Roger Jones)
- Motion Picture Music in the East (Jack Shaindlin)
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: Spitfire (Muir Mathieson); The More the Merrier (Morris Stoloff); It Ain't Hay (Charles Previn, mus. dir.); Cowboy from Manhattan (Charles Previn, mus. dir.); The Next of Kin (Ernest Irving, mus. dir.); Reveille with Beverly (Morris Stoloff); Corregidor (Leo Erdody); They Came to Blow Up America (Emil Newman); Above Suspicion (Bronislau Kaper); Heavenly Music (Nat Shilkret & Maxz Terr); Mission to Moscow (Max Steiner); Desert Victory (William Allwyn); Presenting Lily Mars (Georgie Stoll, mus. dir.). (Reviews by Grace Widney Mabee & Adelaide Gescheidt)
FILM MUSIC NOTES – JUNE 1943 – VOLUME 2, NUMBER 9
- Foreword
- News Items; Comments
- Notes from a Talk Given to the Music Educators' Conference, Western Division, at Santa Barbara (Constance Purdy)
- An Afternoon in the Home of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (Margery Morrison)
- Interesting Pictures in Production [a lengthy list]
- Adolph Deutsch Comments on His Score for Action in the North Atlantic
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: Action in the North Atlantic (Adolph Deutsch); Bataan (Bronislau Kaper); Bombardier (Roy Webb & Constantin Bakaleinikoff); Coney Island (Alfred Newman, mus. dir.); Dr. Gillespie's Critical Case (Danielle Amfitheatrof); Du Barry Was a Lady (Cole Porter, Lennie Hayton, mus. dir.); Five Graves to Cairo (Miklós Rózsa); The Leopard Man (Roy Webb & Constantin Bakaleinikoff); Mr. Big (Charles Previn); Mr. Lucky (Roy Webb); The Ox-Bow Incident (David Snell); Pilot #5 (Lennie Hayton); Squadron Leader X (William Allwyn); Prelude to War (Alfred Newman); Stage Door Canteen (Freddie Rich & Constantin Bakaleinikoff); Stormy Weather (Emil Newman, mus. dir.). (Reviews by Grace Widney Mabee & Adelaide Gescheidt)
- Short Subjects Music
- A Word to the Readers of Film Music Notes (Alice E. Field)
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