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My guess is Antheil, which would make this Bruce's third Antheil release.
Piano Concerto No. 1 (1922)
Piano Concerto No. 2 (1926)
Violin Concerto (1946)
On the other hand, I heard that the world premiere performance of Piano Concerto No. 1 was in 2001...so maybe not!
There was also "Concerto for Chamber Orchestra" which I gather was an arrangement of his Octet for Winds...
Yavar
Not Antheil. This composer is new to Kritzerland. I was very taken with his music all the way back to 1959, so this is a treat to do.
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This composer is new to Kritzerland. I was very taken with his music all the way back to 1959, so this is a treat to do.
1959
Was this the year that Elie Siegmeister took Mr. Kritzerland to Cordura?
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That’s a good guess. I know of a violin concerto, clarinet concerto, flute concerto, and piano concerto. So if it’s a composer who only wrote three I’m not sure he fits....
Yavar
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According to the Gail Kubik Collection at Kansas State University, the music for "I Thank a Fool" wasn't dropped because of musical considerations, but rather because of a rights issue (quote from 1962 entry):
"1962 – Scores film, I Thank a Fool, for MGM (Europe); however, Kubik refuses to give the studio rights to the music and it is removed from the film".
The Gail T. Kubik Collection:
https://www.lib.k-state.edu/depts/sc_rev/findaids/pc1995-06.php
I think that may be a bit of urban legend, frankly.
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This composer is new to Kritzerland. I was very taken with his music all the way back to 1959, so this is a treat to do.
1959
Was this the year that Elie Siegmeister took Mr. Kritzerland to Cordura?
Not an American composer.
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Not an American composer.
British
French
Italian
Japanese
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Russian?
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That’s a good guess. I know of a violin concerto, clarinet concerto, flute concerto, and piano concerto. So if it’s a composer who only wrote three I’m not sure he fits....
Yavar
I don't believe Bruce said this composer only wrote three concertos. I thought he just meant there would be three concertos on the CD. I don't know how much the 1959 date helps either. Does that mean his output only goes back to 1959? Or it that date just when Bruce heard the music for the first time and loved it? Also doesn't help date the concertos, because again, Bruce does not specify that it was those particular pieces that first grabbed him.
A couple of possibilities:
Toshiro Mayuzumi?
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco?
No to those two wonderful composers. 1959 was the first time I saw this person's name and heard a film score by him. He didn't write all that many, but I really like his work and his classical works are wonderful. This composer considered himself an English composer, despite being born elsewhere.
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1959 was the first time I saw this person's name and heard a film score by him. He didn't write all that many, but I really like his work and his classical works are wonderful. This composer considered himself an English composer, despite being born elsewhere.
Jolly good, chaps ... I managed to fit a Sherlock Holmes cap over my stone-head to arrive at quite a few deductions.
In California in 1959, the wee 11-year Bruce saw the 1954 production of Orwell's Animal Farm, and heard its music by Mátyás Seiber.
Mr. Seiber was born in Budapest, Hungary, but toiled within the British film industry until his untimely death in 1960.
Seiber scored maybe 20 films, but has a more extensive oeuvre within the classical music field.
Possible contenders for the upcoming Kritzerland CD?
Let us ponder:
-) Concertino for clarinet and string orchestra (1928)
-) Notturno for horn and string orchestra (1944)
-) Elegy for viola and chamber orchestra (1954)
-) Three Pieces for cello and orchestra (1956) [classified as a concerto]
Are we getting warmer, Mr. K?
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1959 was the first time I saw this person's name and heard a film score by him. He didn't write all that many, but I really like his work and his classical works are wonderful. This composer considered himself an English composer, despite being born elsewhere.
Jolly good, chaps ... I managed to fit a Sherlock Holmes cap over my stone-head to arrive at quite a few deductions.
In California in 1959, the wee 11-year Bruce saw the 1954 production of Orwell's Animal Farm, and heard its music by Mátyás Seiber.
Mr. Seiber was born in Budapest, Hungary, but toiled within the British film industry until his untimely death in 1960.
Seiber scored maybe 20 films, but has a more extensive oeuvre within the classical music field.
Possible contenders for the upcoming Kritzerland CD?
Let us ponder:
-) Concertino for clarinet and string orchestra (1928)
-) Notturno for horn and string orchestra (1944)
-) Elegy for viola and chamber orchestra (1954)
-) Three Pieces for cello and orchestra (1956) [classified as a concerto]
Are we getting warmer, Mr. K?
No - what I saw in 1959 was a film released that year - in fact, I saw it on its opening day.
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Was it Jet Storm by Thomas Rajna? (another Hungarian-born English composer)
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No - what I saw in 1959 was a film released that year - in fact, I saw it on its opening day.
It could be the German-born composer Franz Reizenstein who then settled in England during the 30s. He scored THE MUMMY in 1959.
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While Schurmann or Chagrin haven't been ruled out yet, I think Stefan has come the closest with Franz R.
I can imagine a lot of children & families wishing to see THE MUMMY when it was first screened.
Regarding Reizenstein, he wrote 2 piano concerti, one each for cello or violin and a concerto for string orchestra.
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