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Lucky you, Ray!
If memory serves, I have some sort of old 78's set with Barrymore scoring an Alladin tale. Does this ring a bell with you -- or anybody else within the sound of my voice?
(Lionel, my favorite Barrymore, was also a very fine sketch artist. I own a set of four place mats with his etchings on them. A genuine triple-threat genius!)
- PNJ
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That concert also has Smetana's 'Bartered Bride'. And Max Steiner composed Warners' 'Adventures of Don Juan' in 1948 too with its 'familiar' passages. Makes you wonder? It's a BIT ironic.
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The first thing I noticed and found to be interesting, but certainly not surprising, is how the announcer introduced Rozsa. He says that his works have been represented at the Hollywood Bowl previously as well as his having been "a real conductor of REAL attainments". I read into that the age old differentiation between film music and "serious" music. It was driven home by the fact that he emphasized the word "real" the second time in that statement. Funny in a snobby sort of way.
I think this was just a way of stressing that he saw Rozsa in this context as a serious CONDUCTOR, not a reference to compositional heirarchies. Not all composers, for film or otherwise, make good conductors. Many have spoken very highly of Rozsa's conducting skill at the classics. Some disagree, but I think he was very good. He himself was disdainful of the 'career' conductors who placed that art above composition.
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Nov 5, 2009 - 8:49 AM
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manderley
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To answer one of Rozsaphile's questions---
Before the L.A.Music Center was built and opened in 1964, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra played at the Philharmonic Auditorium, located in downtown Los Angeles across from Pershing Square and angled to the Biltmore Hotel, which is still standing.
http://bigorangelandmarks.blogspot.com/2007/09/no-61-philharmonic-auditorium.html
I don't recall ever being in the auditorium in those days, but I went by it often. It was built around 1906 and razed in 1985, and was one of the major venues in LA.
An all-purpose site (which is why the new Music Center was needed in the first place), this theatre held ballets, concerts, shows, and is the theatre where Edwin Lester's famed subscription musical series performed each year, featuring the best of Broadway, and his own originating productions which occasionally went to Broadway later.
The Philharmonic also has the distinction of being the theatre where D.W.Griffith's THE BIRTH OF A NATION opened---under its original title, THE KLANSMAN---and played one of its first special engagements in the country.
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