This stuff never gets old. A nicely done compilation, and good use of music: “The Muskrat Ramble,” the Habanera from “Carmen,” and the “Tritsch-Tratsch Polka.”
Great moments in film music: ‘The Big Store’
Chico and Harpo Marx, piano four hands.
Great moments in film music: ‘Oklahoma!’
The ballet. Choreography by Agnes de Mille. Music by Richard Rodgers.
Great moments in film music: ‘Austin Powers’
The music is “Soul Bossa Nova” by Quincy Jones, released in 1962.
Great moments in film music: ‘La La Land’
Just a small sample from the spectacular new American musical, “La La Land.” By the way, the film was shot in CinemaScope using the same lenses — the exact same lenses — they used to shoot “Ben-Hur” in the late ’50s.
Music by Justin Hurwitz.
Correction: My cinematographer brother-in-law informs me that the “Ben-Hur” lenses were used on “Rogue One” not “La La Land.” My error. “La La Land was shot with regular Panavision 2X anamorphic lenses, the same format as CinemaScope originally, a 2X horizontally squeezed image onto the 4-perf 35mm film frame,” my brother-in-law says. He would know.
Great moments in film music: ‘Yojimbo’
Electric guitar and harpsichord, major vs. minor and heavy percussion. Music by Masaru Sato (and worthy of Ennio Morricone). The opening titles to “Yojimbo” (“Bodyguard,” remade as “A Fistful of Dollars”), directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune.
Great moments in film music: ‘The Third Man’
Closing sequence. Zither music played by Anton Karas.
Great moments in film music: ‘North by Northwest’
Titles by Saul Bass. Music by Bernard Herrmann. Watch for Hitchcock at the end — he misses the bus.
Great moments in film music: ‘The Big Country’
Opening titles by Saul Bass, music by Jerome Moross.
Great moments in film music: ‘Once Upon a Time in the West’ (The Duel)
Music by Ennio Morricone, of course. Notice the play of major and minor harmonies, worthy of Schubert. The clip ends, appropriately, in pure dissonance.
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