🧵 1/9 The history of Hollywood's Golden Age is linked with the story of Europeans fleeing the rise of fascism in the 1930s. This is especially true for some of the film composers of that era. None more so than the great Franz Waxman, whose birthday we celebrate today (1906-1967). #filmsky #musicsky

Been following the development of this film for years now, saw two works in progress and CAN NOT WAIT for the world at large to be exposed to the final version of BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL tomorrow in VENICE.

BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL, a film by @davidkittredge.bsky.social will have its world premiere at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival next month. Thank you to David and our producers @travisstevens.bsky.social and @jimfall.bsky.social for having me along!

Happy International Coffee Ice Cream Day to those who celebrate.

did mozart's major-key music sound as psychotically happy to people in the 18th century as it does now

Steven Spielberg’s game-changing blockbuster returns to terrify filmgoers! JAWS (1975) screens May 23rd - 25th in 35mm. Tickets: buff.ly/MEDb5RD

#ContemporariesOfHaydn #8 Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782) Forget Black Friday, it's Bach Wednesday! After training with half-brother CPE in Berlin, Johann Sebastian's youngest son made the symphony a mainstay of London's emerging concert scene with works like this G-minor rip-snorter 🔥🔥🔥

LOST HIGHWAY was my first foray into David Lynch. His work and his personal ethos were startling and unique, top to bottom. An artist’s artist for the ages.

Hundreds of Mexican Firefighters arrived both today and yesterday in Southern California, to assist with the ongoing Wildfires in Los Angeles County. Most are with the National Forestry Commission and the Civil Relief Corps, with others coming from the Mexican Army.

Jimmy Carter, a visionary on ending fossil fuels, put solar panels on the White House. Big Oil-backed Ronald Reagan ousted Carter in 1980 and ripped them out Tonight, as Carter lies in in state in the Capitol, a climate-fueled wildfire is destroying Reagan's former hometown of Pacific Palisades

What a marquee.

Hitchcock’s psycho-sexual surrealist STRANGERS ON A TRAIN is just starting on BBC2. I wrote about it here: open.substack.com/pub/sabinast...

Many of my early forays into composition & music theory were through books I checked out via the Oxnard Public Library. I also discovered many movies because they had a large number of Criterion titles on DVD. It changed and enriched my life.

Sonny Clark

It doesn't get much better than "Leaving Home" from Superman: The Movie.

Took a heroic dose of mushrooms and experienced GURRELIEDER. Excellent performance by the LA Phil & LA Master Chorale. Zubin Mehta is in good form for 88!

"He never did come out to look at that thing that flew overhead. He wasn't even interested." "He always was an oddball. Him and his whole family. A real oddball." "Yeah, why didn't he come out with the rest of us to look?" #S1E22 Twilight Zone's "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"

Happy PSYCHO Day!

THE TOWN (2010, dir. Ben Affleck) #OnePerfectShot #Filmsky #Crimesky 📽️☕🚚💰🍩

HAPPY 122nd BIRTHDAY, MARGARET HAMILTON!

Director Orson Welles with composer Bernard Herrmann discussing the music for CITIZEN KANE (1941). RKO was only willing to pay Bernard Herrmann a small fee for his work because CITIZEN KANE was his first film. Welles fought the studio for him to "get the same as Max Steiner."

Ronnie Spector has what is easily the funniest quote in that new Beatles '64 documentary.

A few classical LP covers at amoeba. Really wish albums still rocked artwork like this.

The great Neil Bulk

#OTD 60 years ago, the first piece of #StarTrek music was recorded. This was a pre-record for "Vina's Dance" from the pilot episode, "The Cage." This is what Susan Oliver danced to on set and was by Desilu music director Wilbur Hatch. The final cue in the episode was composed by Alexander Courage.

#A-Haydn-A-Day keeps the doctor away! Day 11: Symphony No. 103 "Drumroll" It's obvious how Haydn's second-to-last symphony got its nickname. It starts with a long and mysterious timpani roll that builds from quiet to loud and back again. At least, that's how it alway *used* to start ... 🧵

"Your soul is your conception, and you begin to have it in your playing when the way you strike a note, the sound you get, and your phrasing come out of you yourself and no one else." - Sonny Clark

Underrated as hell

Baby’s first book of Stravinsky tunes. Working on my piano proficiency….

you used to have to have the TV on channel 3 to play video games

Legendary Mexican actress Silvia Pinal has died at the age of 93.

This is the first year I know for a fact that the year end Spotify wrapped will be inaccurate because I’ve listened to “Chain Reaction of Love” from the unreleased Andy Paley/Brian Wilson sessions maybe like…. 20 times in a row.

When you think of people who make movies, it isn't often most think of the AD. But a good 1st AD is crucial to any film coming off well-- I never met Adam Somner, but just seeing this list of movies he worked on, I can't help but conclude our medium has lost a major contributor.

Happy Thanksgiving from 3 Boston Legends.

Love to see composers with a passion beyond music. Happy to support Maestro Silvestri’s other business!

This is 30% off. Took me a year to write it. I opened up old wounds to get it done. Support real writers while tech bros threaten to publish thousands of AI “books” next year. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

Bernard Herrmann conducting the National Philharmonic Orchestra during a recording session of his score for OBSESSION (1976), with director Brian De Palma looking on. The recording took place in St. Giles Church, Cripplegate, London.

massive systemic failure

Those of us in LA are very lucky to have a weekend dedicated to John Williams at the Hollywood Bowl. This year’s concert featured a rarity: the first public performance of his theme for “Meet the Press”, a 2012 arrangement of “The Pulse of Events”, written as part of a suite in 1985 for NBC.

Music by John Williams. Excellent.