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BBC Radio 3
Composer Of The Week: Franz Waxman
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cotw

Monday 19 May to Friday 23 May 2008 (5x episodes)
1200-1300 GMT (rpt 2045-2145 GMT)
0700-0800 EST – rpt 1545-1645 EST

World Premiere Recording

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DVD Classics Corner

Dick Dinman's DVD CLASSICS CORNER ON THE AIR is proud to present a four part tribute to Franz Waxman, the only Golden Age composer to win two consecutive Oscars. Dick's guest is his son, producer John Waxman, who shares some poignant, humorous, and always compelling stories about his father's experiences during his legendary three decade plus career. Included in these shows will be generous samplings of twenty-seven Waxman scores, some of which have never been released commercially in any home audio format.

PART ONE (click to listen)
Seven year old child prodigy, THE BLUE ANGEL, Nazi brutality, escape to Paris and the United States, THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, the early days at Universal and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the great MGM scores, introduction to David O. Selznick and Alfred Hitchcock, the first Oscar nomination.

PART TWO (click to listen)
REBECCA, SUSPICION, moving over to Warner Brothers, a revealing and unexpected portrait of studio head Jack L. Warner, the great Waxman-Warner years, free at last, first Oscar win for Billy Wilder's SUNSET BLVD, never-before-released unused SUNSET BLVD music, director George Stevens complains about Waxman's score for A PLACE IN THE SUN, second consecutive Oscar win for A PLACE IN THE SUN, Waxman score for NIGHT AND THE CITY replaced in Britain.

PART THREE (click to listen)
Hitchcock dislikes Waxman's REAR WINDOW score, the great Twentieth Century Fox scores, back to Warner's with THE SILVER CHALICE, reunion with Billy Wilder for THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS, Steven Spielberg loves Waxman's SPIRIT score, a controversial PEYTON PLACE.

PART FOUR (click to listen)
Jack Warner livid over Waxman's initial score for NUN'S STORY, BELOVED INFIDEL, ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG MAN, Bernard Herrmann calls Waxman's score for TARAS BULBA (which almost didn't happen!) "the score of a lifetime", a SUNSET BLVD finale.

Franz Waxman®