FILM MUSIC: Volume 15

(September-October 1955 to Summer 1956)

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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? E-mail me via this link – Mike Quigley

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FILM MUSIC – SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1955 – VOLUME 15, NUMBER 1

Cover: Baby fox from The Great Adventure

• Contents
• The Great Adventure* [score and cue sheet] {Lars Erik Larsson} (Ann Rosell)
• The Night of the Hunter* ({Walter Schumann})
• Reviews: Pete Kelly's Blues (Ray Heindorf, mus. dir.); It's Always Fair Weather (André Previn); The Lady and the Tramp (Oliver Wallace).
• Blinkity Blank* and other Canadian News {Norman McLaren} (Gerald Pratley)
• 16mm Films (Marie Hamilton)
• The Book of Job {Ralph Vaughan Williams} (Gene Forrell)
• Records (Marie Hamilton)
• A Librarian's Notes on Film Music (Mary Pearson)
• Film and TV Music News [Picture of Rózsa & Deutsch with Dore Schary]

FILM MUSIC – WINTER ISSUE 1955 – VOLUME 15, NUMBER 2

Cover: Anna Magnani and Burt Lancaster from The Rose Tattoo

• Contents
• The Rose Tattoo* (Alex North); Introduction (Norman Lloyd); Record Review (John Gruen)
• Reviews: Guys and Dolls (Frank Loesser; Jay Blackton, mus. dir.); Oklahoma! (Richard Rogers; Jay Blackton, mus. dir.); The Tender Trap (Jeff Alexander); Kismet (Robert Wright & George Forrest, based on music of Borodin)
• Jazz Dance (Roger Tilton)
• 16mm Films (Marie Hamilton)
• Corral* (Gerald Pratley)

FILM MUSIC – JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1956 – VOLUME 15, NUMBER 3

Cover: Scene from Picnic

• Contents
• Picnic* Notes on the Score ({George Duning})
• Richard Wagner's Music in Magic Fire ({Erich Wolfgang Korngold})
• Reviews: Don Juan (Mozart); The Benny Goodman Story (Joseph Gershenson, mus. supervision); Anything Goes (Cole Porter; Joseph Lilley, arr. and cond.); Fantasia Revisited (various classical pieces)
• Audio-Visual Department, Dearborn Public Library (James L. Limbacher)
• 16mm Films (Marie Hamilton)
• Two New Films on Music (Abram Loft) [not in index]
• TV in the Opera Picture (Peter Herman Adler)
• Film and TV Music News

FILM MUSIC – SPRING 1956 – VOLUME 15, NUMBER 4

Cover: Frank Sinatra in The Man with the Golden Arm

• Contents
• The Man with the Golden Arm* ({Elmer Bernstein})
• Lovers and Lollipops* ({Eddy Manson})
• Music for Shakespearean Films ({William Walton})
• Reviews: Carousel (Richard Rogers; Alfred Newman, music supervision & cond.); Madame Butterfly (Puccini); House of Ricordi (Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini); Serenade (Ray Heindorf, mus. dir.)
• Composers at Work (Gerald Pratley) [various Hollywood composers]
• 16mm Films (Marie Hamilton)
• Credits in Current Releases: Alexander The Great (Mario Nascimbene); All That Heaven Allows (Frank Skinner; Joseph Gershenson, mus. dir.); Anything Goes (Cole Porter; Joseph Lilley, arr. & cond.); Artists And Models (Walter Scharf, arr. & cond.); The Birds And The Bees (Walter Scharf; Mack David & Harry Warren, songs); The Bold And The Brave (Herschel Burke Gilbert); Comanche (Herschel Burke Gilbert); Come Next Spring (Max Steiner); The Conqueror (Victor Young; Constantin Bakaleinikoff, mus. dir.); The Court Jester (Victor Schoen); Forever Darling (Bronislau Kaper); The Last Hunt (Daniel Amfitheatrof); The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit (Bernard Herrmann); Meet Me In Las Vegas (George Stoll, mus. dir.); Miracle In The Rain (Franz Waxman); On The Threshold Of Space (Lyn Murray); The Scarlet Hour (Leith Stevens); Seven Wonders Of The World (David Raksin, Jerome Moross, Emil Newman); The Swan (Bronislau Kaper); The Trouble With Harry (Bernard Herrmann); Tribute To A Bad Man (Miklós Rózsa).

FILM MUSIC – SUMMER 1956 – VOLUME 15, NUMBER 5

Cover: Scene from Moby Dick with Gregory Peck & Leo Genn

• Contents
• The Music for Moby Dick (with themes)* ({Philip Sainton})
• The Eddy Duchin Story (Morris Stoloff, mus. dir.) (Francis Torne)
• The Man Who Knew Too Much {Herrmann}
• Invitation to the Dance* [Ring Around the Rosy Sequence] ({André Previn}) (with additional music by Jacques Ibert and Rimsky-Korsakov (arr. Roger Edens))
• The King and I {Richard Rodgers} (Alfred Newman, mus. dir. & conducting) (Alfred Simon)
• Forbidden Planet ({Louis & Bebe Barron})
• Music for Television* ({Tom Scott})
• Credits in Current Releases
• Film and TV Music News

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