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Regarding the recent events in London & Vienna, I am delighted to say that Korngold enjoyed an unprecedented triumph in both cities and especially in Vienna where John Mauceri conducted an outstanding concert of his film music. It was also broadcast on ORF.
My American friend and colleague Troy Dixon (who was also there) is currently writing an extended article all about it for the Korngold Society website, (www.korngold-society.org) so please forgive me if I do not duplicate his efforts here.
Suffice to say that the splendid festivals mounted to mark the 50th anniversary of Korngold's passing, and which were 5 years in the planning, were the realisation of a dream come true for me.
One last point: as part of the Vienna celebrations, I helped the Jewish Museum in Vienna to mount a huge and richly detailed exhibition on Korngold that includes a huge amount of rare archival material on his career in Hollywood, even exhibiting his Oscar for Anthony Adverse!
It runs until May 18 2008 so if any of you can get to Vienna, I really commend that you go and see it. If not, you can order the amazing bi-lingual 220 page catalogue direct from the museum, that is lavishly illustrated with articles, hundreds of photos, and especially includes a marvellous free CD stuffed with rare archival recordings (including many from his film career). These rare recordings are unavaliable anywhere else. It is an instant collectors' item.
Visit the Jewish Museum website at
http://www.jmw.at
(there is an English version too - just click on that option)
and you can order it, I think directly from the Museum Shop.
Wow ! Thanks Brendan, I will check this out and hopefully I will be able visit the museum brfore the exhibition ends. I had intended to attend the Vienna concert but my girlfriend didn't think she could get the free time from work. Eventually when she did get permission it was too late for us as the concert was fully booked and even the hotels were fully booked it seems. We actually went to Rome instead and attended Marco Frisina's Opera La Divina Commedia based on Dante's Commedia. Incidently Mons. Frisina's work is very enjoyable indeed and is on in Rome until the end of February. If anybody has the oportunity to attend, don't miss it, they even have special effects by Carlo Rimbaldi. I am a big fan of Marco Frisina's music.
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My friends at Turner tell me that SEA WOLF is scheduled for DVD release in 2008 as part of a box set of Edward G Robinson movies. Whether they have found the original uncut 100 minute 1941 version however, is not known, as yet....
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