The University of Chicago will celebrate Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s music over the course of a 10-day festival—one that will examine how his life and work show a transformational change from composing ...

In high school, I spent long hours in the art room, painting in a pseudo-Turneresque manner and listening to music. A former teacher had installed a record-player and assembled a collection of ...

The lone symphony by a composer whose film music helped define the Hollywood sound is now the star of a landmark recording. The Korngold Symphony (Supertrain Records) showcases two historically ...

He was one of the great film composers. But before that, he was the toast of Vienna. On Sunday afternoon, the Concordia Chamber Players will offer an opportunity to discover why. Erich Wolfgang ...

Trumpets blaze, violins swirl and Errol Flynn flashes across the deck of a Spanish galleon. Sword in hand, he beats back his captors, freeing his men from their galley chains. ``The Sea Hawk'' is a ...

“That sounds like film music” is a put-down that deserves to be retired. The usual intention is to dismiss a work as splashy kitsch. Over the past century, though, enough first-rate music has been ...

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Ronald reagan considered “Kings Row” (1942) his best work as an actor. Beyond its presidential cast, the small-town melodrama has another claim to fame. Moviegoers may find its lavish soundtrack ...

Happy Birthday, Erich Wolfgang Korngold! The Austrian-American composer and de-facto father of Hollywood Film Music as we know it, was born today in 1897 – 119 years ago. Korngold’s story is ...

Numi Opera, which is devoted to mounting neglected early 20th century operas by politically persecuted composers, is the new kid in town. Erich Wolfgang Korngold, the father of the symphonic film ...