Alfred Newman – How Green Was My Valley (1941)

 

How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 American drama film directed by John Ford, adapted by Philip Dunne from the 1939 novel of the same title by Richard Llewellyn. It stars Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, and a young Roddy McDowall.

It tells the story of the Morgans, a hard-working Welsh mining family, from the point of view of the youngest child Huw, who lives with his affectionate and kind parents as well as his sister and five brothers, in the South Wales Valleys during the late Victorian era. The story chronicles life in the South Wales coalfields, the loss of that way of life and its effects on the family.

The soundtrack was composed and conducted by Alfred Newman, who, at the time, had acquired a solid reputation as a musician with a marked intelligence in supplying films with music. In his career he had amassed a total of 46 Oscar nominations, resulting in nine Oscars, the most so far won by any individual in film history.

1 Twentieth Century Fox Fanfare 0:12

2 Main Title/Huw's Theme 2:50

3 The Family And Bronwen 6:30

4 The Strike/Mother And Huw In Ice 4:42

5 Treasure Island/The Spring Birds 3:51

6 Angharad And Mister Gruffydd 2:08

7 Command From The Queen 1:50

8 Huw Walks Among The Daffodils 3:29

9 Angharad With The Minister 1:06

10 Love Denied 4:11

11 School 1:35

12 Huw's Lesson/The Mine Tragedy 3:06

13 Two More Brothers Leave 1:52

14 The House On The Hill/Gossip 6:57

15 Goodbyes 1:31

16 Huw Finds His Father 0:53

17 Finale/End Theme 1:42

How Green Was My Valley

The Human Stain:Coleman's Collection...motion picture soundtrack

 

Various ‎– The Human Stain (Motion Picture Soundtrack: Coleman's Collection)
Label: Lakeshore Records ‎– LKS 33784
Country: US
Released: 2003
Genre: Jazz, Classical, Stage & Screen
Style: Soundtrack

 Tracklist
1     –Jess Stacy     Honeysuckle Rose    
2     –Woody Herman     Woodchopper's Ball    
3     –Tommy Dorsey     Sleepy Lagoon    
4     –Fred Astaire     Cheek To Cheek    
5     –The Oscar Peterson Trio     I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good    
6     –Marian McPartland     Day Dream    
7     –Ken Peplowski     Cry Me A River    
8     –Teddy Wilson     Embraceable You    
9     –Johnny Hodges & Orchestra*     Day Dream    
10     –Gunter Weiss* And The Vienna Konzerthaus Quartet*     Schubert String Quintet In C, Opus 163 D956

 The Human Stain

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The Rocketeer..music from the original motion picture soundtrack...music by James Horner

This exceptional score by James Horner is at times light hearted, dark, ominous and mysterious,but also uplifting and action filled. There are two songs included, Begin the Beguine and When Your Lover Has Gone, which perfectly capture the feeling of the forties, when the film was set. Even for those of us that didn't live during the 30's/40's, the movie is like a period piece you can enjoy that makes the movie come alive.

James Horner, in the same tradition that Korngold and Williams have done, brings about the heroic march to underscore the excitement and thrill of a man flying through the air wearing a rocket strapped to his back. Without it, the film might be dull and lifeless. But Horner's 2/4 time drums the strains of athletes entering the arena to compete, or the Roman army marching triumphant up the great Apian Way, and we smile at his success.

The Rocketeer

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Tracklist:
Main Title / Takeoff 4:30
The Flying Circus 6:30
Jenny 5:10
Begin The Beguine 3:36
Neville Sinclair's House 7:20
Jenny's Rescue 3:20
Rendezvous At Griffith Park Observatory 8:10
When Your Lover Has Gone 3:25
The Zeppelin 8:00
Rocketeer To The Rescue / End Title 6:30

Casablanca Original Motion Picture Soundtrack music by Max Steiner

Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz based on Murray Burnett and Joan Alison's unproduced stage play Everybody Comes to Rick's. The film stars Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid; it also features Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Dooley Wilson. Set during contemporary World War II, it focuses on an American expatriate who must choose between his love for a woman and helping her and her husband, a Czech Resistance leader, escape from the Vichy-controlled city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Nazis.

Although Casablanca was an A-list film with established stars and first-rate writers, no one involved with its production expected it to be anything other than one of the hundreds of ordinary pictures produced by Hollywood that year. Casablanca was rushed into release to take advantage of the publicity from the Allied invasion of North Africa a few weeks earlier. It had its world premiere on November 26, 1942, in New York City and was released nationally in the United States on January 23, 1943. The film was a solid if unspectacular success in its initial run.

Exceeding expectations, Casablanca went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, while Curtiz was selected as Best Director and the Epsteins and Koch were honored for writing the Best Adapted Screenplay—and gradually its reputation grew. Its lead characters, memorable lines, and pervasive theme song have all become iconic, and the film consistently ranks near the top of lists of the greatest films in history.

Casablanca

The music was written by Max Steiner, who was best known for the score for Gone with the Wind. The song "As Time Goes By" by Herman Hupfeld had been part of the story from the original play; Steiner wanted to write his own composition to replace it, but Bergman had already cut her hair short for her next role (María in For Whom the Bell Tolls) and could not re-shoot the scenes which incorporated the song, so Steiner based the entire score on it and "La Marseillaise", the French national anthem, transforming them as leitmotifs to reflect changing moods. Even though Steiner didn't like "As Time Goes By", he admitted in a 1943 interview that it "must have had something to attract so much attention." The "piano player" Dooley Wilson was a drummer, not a trained pianist, so the piano music for the film was played offscreen by Jean Plummer and dubbed.

Particularly memorable is the "duel of the songs" between Strasser and Laszlo at Rick's cafe. In the soundtrack, "La Marseillaise" is played by a full orchestra. Originally, the opposing piece for this iconic sequence was to be the "Horst Wessel Lied", a Nazi anthem, but this was still under international copyright in non-Allied countries. Instead "Die Wacht am Rhein" was used. The "Deutschlandlied", the national anthem of Germany, features in the final scene, in which it gives way to "La Marseillaise" after Strasser is shot.