FILM MUSIC NOTES: Volume 5

(September 1945 to May 1946)

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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? -mail me via this link – Mike Quigley

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FILM MUSIC NOTES – SEPTEMBER 1945 –VOLUME 5, NUMBER 1

• Foreword
• A Message from the National Film Music Council
• News Items; Comments [includes a long section about Hollywood Bowl Concert conducted by Stokowski and Johnny Green]
• Criticism from London (John Huntley)
  Music for All, continued [something missing here?]
• Afterthoughts (Sigmund Spaeth)
• Ann Ronell, George Gershwin and Richard Rodgers (Sigmund Spaeth)
• Film Music Excerpts (Margery Morrison)
• Reviews of Current Motion Pictures from the Viewpoint of Music Interest: Anchors Aweigh (Georgie Stoll, mus. dir.); A Thousand and One Nights (Marlin Skiles); State Fair (Alfred Newman & Charles Henderson, mus. dirs.); Over 21 (Martin Skiles); Love Letters (Victor Young); Johnny Angel (Leigh Harline); Bewitched (Bronislau Kaper); Mildred Pierce (Max Steiner); The Way Ahead (William Alwyn); Captain Kidd (David Chudnow, mus. dir.); A Bell for Adano (Alfred Newman); Her Highness and the Bellboy (Georgie Stoll); And then There Were None (Charles Previn, mus. dir.); Paris Underground (Alexander Tasmin); G.I. Joe (Ann Ronell & Louis Applebaum); The Lost Weekend (Miklós Rózsa); You Came Along (Victor Young); Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (Bronislau Kaper); Weekend at the Waldorf (Johnny Green, mus. dir.).
• The New Music of Motion Pictures (Franz Waxman)
• Theme from Pride of the Marines* {Franz Waxman}

FILM MUSIC NOTES – OCTOBER 1945 –VOLUME 5, NUMBER 2

• Foreword
• A Message From the National Film Music Council
• Letters From Our Readers
• News Items; Comments
• Letters to Mr. Dimitri Tiomkin
• Getting the Gen: A Course in Film Music (John Huntley)
• Sound and the Amateur (John W. Loomer, Los Angeles 8mm Club)
• A Music Library in a Motion Picture Studio (Monachus Minor) [From The Score]
• Reviews of Current Motion Pictures from the Viewpoint of Music Interest: Tomorrow is Forever (Max Steiner); River Gang (Hans Salter); The Dolly Sisters (Alfred Newman & Charles Henderson, mus. dirs.); That Night With You (Hans Salter); The Spanish Main (Hanns Eisler); Hold That Blonde (Victor Young); The Enchanted Forest (Albert Hay Mallotte); The True Glory (William Alwyn); Colonel Effingham's Raid (Cyril J. Mockridge); Man Alive (Leigh Harline); Pardon My Past (Dimitri Tiomkin); Men In Her Diary (Milton Rosen); The House on 92nd Street (David Buttolph); Shady Lady (Milton Rosen); First Yank Into Tokyo (Leigh Harline); Love, Honor and Goodbye (Roy Webb); People Are Funny (Alexander Laszlo); Sunbonnet Sue (Eddie Kay); The Spider (David Buttolph); Wanderer of the Wasteland (Paul Sawtell).
• Themes from The Lost Weekend* {Miklós Rózsa}
• An Outline of University Training for Musicians in Motion Picture Work (Miklós Rózsa)
• Biographical Notes on Miklós Rózsa

FILM MUSIC NOTES – NOVEMBER 1945 –VOLUME 5, NUMBER 3

• A Message From the National Film Music Council (Grace Widney Mabee)
• News Items; Comments
• Letters From Our Readers
• Comments by Our Reviewers on Mr. Gold's Score
• A University Course in Dramatic Music, Etc. (Walter E. Rubsamen)
• Afterthoughts (Sigmund Spaeth)
• Film Music Notes Portfolios
• Music Hath Charms (Alice Evans Field)
• Reviews of Current Motion Pictures From the Viewpoint of Musical Intereset: Kitty (Victor Young); The Stork Club (Robert Emmett Dolan); Yolanda and the Thief (Lennie Hayton); Fallen Angel (David Raksin); Allotment Wives (Edward Kay); My Name is Julia Ross (Mischa Bakaleinikoff, mus. dir.); The Girl of the Limberlost (Ernest Gold); Senorita From the West (Edgar Fairchild, uncredited); Danny Boy, PRC (Walter Greene, mus. dir.); This Love of Ours (Hans Salter, mus. dir.); Dakota (Walter Scharf).
• My First Movie Score (Ernest Gold)
• Biography of Ernest Gold
• The End from The Girl of the Limberlost* {Ernest Gold}
• Notes on Louis Applebaum
• Church Battle from The Story of G.I. Joe* {Louis Applebaum}

FILM MUSIC NOTES – DECEMBER 1945 –VOLUME 5, NUMBER 4

• Foreword
• A Message from the National Film Music Council (Grace Widney Mabee)
• Letters to the National Film Music Council
• New Items; Comments
• Letters From Our Readers
• From "United in Music" (Merritt E. Tompkins, The Hollywood Reporter)
• Music ... Not Catch Phrases (Meredith Willson, Pacific Coast Musician)
• Three Leading Articles
• Music in Hollywood (Lionel Barrymore, The Hollywood Reporter)
• Saratoga Trunk {Max Steiner} (Lenard Quinto)
• Reviews of Current Motion Pictures from the Viewpoint of Music Interest: Cornered (Constantin Bakaleinikoff, mus. dir.); What Next, Corporal Hargrove? (David Snell); Danger Signal (Adolph Deutsch); The Daltons Ride Again (Frank Skinner); Spellbound (Miklós Rózsa); They Were Expendable (Herbert Stothart); A Game of Death (Paul Sawtell); Saratoga Trunk (Max Steiner); Vacation From Marriage (Clifton Parker); Pursuit to Algiers (Edgar Fairchild, mus. dir.); Confidential Agent (Franz Waxman); Too Young To Know (Heinz Roemheld); Club Havana (Edward Jackson, mus. dir.); Detour (Leo Erdody); Kiss and Tell (Werner R. Heymann); She Went To The Races (Nathaniel Shilkret); Follow That Woman (Alexander Laszlo); Getting Gertie's Garter (Louis Forbes, mus. dir.); Miss Susie Slagle's (Daniele Amfitheatrof); The Bells of St. Mary's (Robert Emmett Dolan); A Letter for Evie (George Bassman).
• Notes on Lennie Hayton
• Excerpts from Yolanda and the Thief {Lennie Hayton}

FILM MUSIC NOTES – JANUARY 1946 –VOLUME 5, NUMBER 5

• Foreword
• A Message From the National Film Music Council (Grace Widney Mabee)
• News Items; Comments
• Notes from England (John Huntley)
• Picture Music at the Concerthall (Ernest Gold)
• Behind the Musical Scenes of The Shocking Miss Pilgrim {David Raksin, uncredited} (Constance Purdy)
• Film Music for Music Appreciation (Richard N. Whitfield)
• Highs and Lows in Recent Scores: Masquerade in Mexico (Victor Young); Saratoga Trunk (Max Steiner); Spellbound (Miklós Rózsa); The Bells of St. Mary's (Robert Emmett Dolan); A Walk in the Sun (Freddie Rich); The Spiral Staircase (Roy Webb); Scarlet Street (Hans Salter); The Last Chance (Robert Blum); Leave Her to Heaven (Alfred Newman); Frontier Gal (Frank Skinner); My Reputation (Max Steiner). (Reviews by Celeste Hautbois)
• Reviews of Current Motion Pictures from the Viewpoint of Music Interest: Profile Gal (Frank Skinner); Appointment in Tokyo (Sol Kaplan); An Angel Comes to Brooklyn (Morton Scott, mus. dir.); She Wouldn't Say Yes (Marlin Skiles); Masquerade in Mexico (Victor Young); Snafu (Paul Sawtell); Adventure (Herbert Stothart); Leave Her to Heaven (Alfred Newman); The Spiral Staircase (Roy Webb); Doll Face (Emil Newman & Charles Henderson, mus. dirs.); Scarlet Street (Hans Salter); Up Goes Maisie (David Snell); The Last Chance (Robert Blum).
• Notes on Robert Emmett Dolan
• Excerpts from Father O'Malley* and Patsy's Family* by {Robert Emmett Dolan}

FILM MUSIC NOTES – FEBRUARY 1946 –VOLUME 5, NUMBER 6

• Editorial
• A Message From the National Film Music Council (Grace Widney Mabee)
• News Items; Comments
• Excerpt from The Bandit of Sherwood Forest* {Hugo Friedhofer}
• News Items in Brief (John Huntley)
• The Things They Say (British film music composers, directors and writers comment on their specialized branch of the film industry) (Compiled by John Huntley)
• Highs and Lows in Recent Scores: I Ring Doorbells (Leo Erdody); The United States (Not stated!); Shock (David Buttolph); The Virginian (Daniele Amfitheatrof); The Hoodlum Saint (Nathaniel Shilkret); Idea Girl (Frank Skinner, mus. dir.); The Seventh Veil (Benjamin Frankel). (Reviews by Celeste Hautbois)
• Excerpts from Leave Her to Heaven* {Alfred Newman}
• The Film Sense [book review of book by Sergei Eisenstein] (Margery Morisson)
• The Place of Electronic Music in Films (Ivor Darreg)
• 18th Annual Awards: Music Nominations
• Reviews of Current Motion Pictures from the Viewpoint of Music Interest: A Walk in the Sun (Fred E. Rich); You Can't Do Without Love a.k.a. One Exciting Night (Harry Bidgood); The Road to Utopia (Leigh Harline); Whistle Stop (Dimitri Tiomkin); Shock (David Buttolph); The Harvey Girls (Lennie Hayton, mus. dir.); Tars and Spars (Morris Stoloff, mus. dir.); Breakfast in Hollywood (Nat. W. Finston); The Diary of a Chambermaid (Michel Micheleet); The United States (Not stated!); Idea Girl (Frank Skinner, mus. dir.); The Virginian (Daniele Amfitheatrof); Swing Parade of 1946 (Edward Kay, mus. dir.); The Hoodlum Saint (Nathaniel Shilkret); Sentimental Journey (Cyril Mockridge); Behind Green Lights (Emil Newman, mus. dir.); The Well Groomed Bride (Roy Webb); The Blue Dahlia (Victor Young); Bad Bascomb (David Snell); Terror at Night (Milton Rosen, mus. dir.); Portrait of Maria (Francisco Dominguez, mus. dir.); The Sailor Takes a Wife (Bronislau Kaper); My Reputation (Max Steiner).

FILM MUSIC NOTES – MARCH 1946 –VOLUME 5, NUMBER 7

• Foreword
• A Message from the National Film Music Council (Grace Widney Mabee)
• News Items; Comments
• Highs and Lows in Recent Scores: Dragonwyck (Alfred Newman); Cinderella Jones (Friedrich Hollaender); Deadline at Dawn (Hanns Eisler); Our Hearts Were Growing Up (Victor Young); Meet Me on Broadway (George Duning); The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Miklós Rózsa); Tangier (Milton Rosen); The Madonna's Secret (Joseph Dubin); The Bandit of Sherwood Forest (Hugo Friedhofer); Young Widow (Carmen Dragon). (Reviews by Celeste Hautbois)
• Music's Film Value Recognized (Margaret Harford, Academy Awards Edition, Hollywood Citizen-News)
• Three Strangers {Adolph Deutsch} [From The Hollywood Quarterly]
• Excerpts from Diary of a Chambermaid* {Michel Michelet}
• Reviews of Current Motion Pictures from the Viewpoint of Music Interest: Deadline at Dawn (Hanns Eisler); The Seventh Veil (Benjamin Frankel); Dragonwyck (Alfred Newman); The Postman Always Rings Twice (George Bassman); A Yank in London (Anthony Collins); Two Sisters from Boston (Charles Previn, mus. dir.); To Each His Own (Victor Young); The Madonna's Secret (Joseph Dubin); Young Widow (Carmen Dragon); The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Miklós Rózsa); Smooth as Silk (Ernest Gold); The Bandit of Sherwood Forest (Hugo Friedhofer); Our Hearts Were Growing Up (Victor Young).

FILM MUSIC NOTES – APRIL 1946 –VOLUME 5, NUMBER 8

• Foreword: Greetings and Salutations (Alice Evans Field)
• Nominations for Film Music Notes Citation and Award
• Newsreel Music (John Huntley)
• Highs and Lows in Recent Scores: The Kid from Brooklyn (Carmen Dragon); Devotion (Erich Wolfgang Korngold); Specter of the Rose (George Antheil); Heartbeat (Paul Misraki); Gilda (Hugo Friedhofer); Blonde Alibi (Edgar Fairchild, mus. dir.). (Reviews by Celeste Hautbois)
• Fitting a Film to Music (Harold Rawlinson) [from American Cinematographer]
• Contemporary Music in Films (Walter Rubsamen) [Arts and Architecture, July 1945]
• Some Predictions for the Future of Film Music (Nathaniel Shilkret) [Music Publisher's Journal, Jan.-Feb. 1946]
• The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures
• Biennial Meeting of the Music Educators National Conference
• Three Strangers ({Adolph Deutsch}) [From The Hollywood Quarterly]
• Reviews of Current Motion Pictures from the Viewpoint of Music Interest: Specter of the Rose (George Antheil); So Goes My Love (Hans Salter); Gilda (Hugo Friedhofer); The Bride Wore Boots (Frederick Hollander); Heartbeat (Paul Misraki); The Kid From Brooklyn (Carmen Dragon); Devotion (Erich Wolfgang Korngold); Suspense (Daniele Amfitheatrof, mus. dir.); Easy to Wed (Johnny Green, mus. dir.).
• Excerpts from Deadline at Dawn* {Hanns Eisler} [something is missing here]

FILM MUSIC NOTES – MAY 1946 –VOLUME 5, NUMBER 9

• Film Music Notes Awards
• Letters From Our Readers
• A Message From the National Film Music Council (Grace Widney Mabee)
• News Items; Comments
• Movie Audiences: Musically Mature or Adolescent? (Gail Kubik)
• Musical Highlights of the Last Year (Sigmund Spaeth)
• Afterthoughts (Sigmund Spaeth)
• Film Reviews from England: The Captive Heart (); Caravan (); Symphonie Fantastique.
• Are You a Film Music Critic? (Capt. Lenard Quinto*) [From National Board of Review]
• Highs and Lows in Recent Scores: Suspense (Daniele Amfitheatrof, mus. dir.); Make Mine Music (Eliot Daniel, Oliver Wallace, Charles Wolcott); Night in Paradise (Frank Skinner); Black Market Babies (Edward J. Kay, mus. dir.); Ziegfeld Follies (Roger Edens, Lennie Hayton, Conrad Salinger); The Falcon's Alibi (Ernest Gold); Badman's Territory (Roy Webb); Street of Shadows (Documentary); Somewhere in the Night (David Buttolph). (Reviews by Celeste Hautbois)
• Scoring for the Film (Jack Shaindlin) [from Film News]
• Scoring Dramtic Pictures at M-G-M (Alice Evans Field)
• A Yankee Impression of Recent British Pictures (Margery Morrison)
• Reviews of Current Motion Pictures from the Viewpoint of Music Interest: Ziegfeld Follies (Lennie Hayton, mus. dir.); The Falcon's Alibi (Ernest Gold); Her Kind of Man (Franz Waxman); Badman's Territory (Roy Webb); Night in Paradise (Frank Skinner, mus. dir.); The Wife of Monte Cristo (Paul Dessau, mus. dir.); Gay Blades (Morton Scott, mus. dir.); Do You Love Me (Emil Newman, Charles Henderson, mus. dirs.); Make Mine Music (Charles Wolcott, mus. dir.); Partners in Time (Lud Gluskin, mus. dir.); Boys' Ranch (Nathaniel Shilkret); The Dark Corner (Cyril J. Mockridge); The Green Years (Herbert Stothart).
• Richard Addinsell, British Film Music Composer
• Excerpt from Blithe Spirit {Richard Addinsell}

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VOLUME 5, NUMBER 9, OTHER MATERIAL:

Volume 5 of the magazine began in September 1945 and ends in May, 1946, unlike the final years of the previous two volumes, which began in October 1943 and October 1944 and ended in June 1944 and June 1945 respectively. All three of these Volumes contained 9 issues each.

The end of the table of contents on the first page of the May 1946 issue shows an entry for a biography of Hugo Friedhofer and an excerpt from The Bandit of Sherwood Forest by Friedhofer, neither of which are included in this last issue of Volume 5 at the Internet Archive. There is an excerpt from this score in the February 1946 issue and a composer profile of Friedhofer by Lawrence Morton in the September-October 1950 issue. As is, the May 1946 issue in the file at the Internet Archive is 34 pages long, but the total file is 76 pages.

Pages 36 to 47 consist of a "special release on the matchless English film, Olivier's Henry V." The first page of this, on National Film Music Council stationery like all the previous issues from 1941 to this one, has a date of June 1946 on it, like it is a new issue or a supplement of some kind. These 12 pages have some page numbers, but they are not consistent. This section consists of:

• A criticism of composer William Walton's music by Hubert Clifford, from Tempo, December 1944.
• An analysis of the score by Stanlie McConnell
• Biographical information about Walton
• References about sources of traditional music in the score, recordings of Walton's works, books with mentions of Walton, periodicals with the same, and three "special publications."

The next 5 pages, 48 to 52, with "2nd Issue, June 1946" at the top, include:

• Current and coming entertainment films worthy of the music educators' consideration
• Major music films
• Films containing selections of standard works
• Film scores by leading composers
• Light and popular music films

The large file concludes, from page 55 to 76, with what looks like another supplement, and the first page again on National Film Music Council stationery. This supplement is numbered up to 21 pages, but in the large file, pages 22 and 23 are to be found before this final section out of sequence as pages 53 and 54. I have placed them after page 21, that seems where they should be. This section is announced as "Special Bulletin: Current information of value to all music educators":

• Organization and objectives of the National Film Music Council (Grace Widney Mabee)
• What happened in Cleveland in the field of film music
• The future of films in music education (James F. Nickersch)
• New York University School of Education to include films in summer session methods courses (Gordon E. Bailey)
• Good musical scoring deserves better attention (Lorin F. Wheelwright)
• Preview of MGM's forthcoming Two Sisters from Boston
  • Music used in the film (Charles Previn)
  • Comments of the previewers
  • Answers to the criticisms and possible education uses of the film (Stanlie McConnell)
• Current and coming entertainment films worthy of music ecuators' consideration (M.E.N.C.)
• Music heard in Two Sisters in Boston
• Good 16mm films with music (M.E.N.C.)

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