[78-L] Marvin Hamlisch dies

[Rjholtin]

By 2012 they will be able to use anything that predates the Fab Four and it will be virtually unknown - hence the recent discussions of the use of 78s as source material for TV ads.

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On Aug 7, 2012, at 9:27 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

Hey, going back to the days of the pit piano, some films were provided with 
scores and sometimes you got 15-year-old Fats Waller or 83-year-old Mildred 
Hammerschlager playing whatever made a noise. By the way, once upon a time I 
interviewed two very wise lyricists who said that movies should NEVER use music 
that was already well known. That was about 32 years ago when there were still 
a few composers writing full scores. Their names? Marilyn and Alan Bergman. 
Can't remember the big hit song they wrote with this guy Hamburger..

dl

On 8/7/2012 9:24 PM, neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com wrote:
Alex North's music for "Spartacus" is a perfect example. There are only
a few instances, if that, where music is actually performed by the
characters in the film. One is when Antoninus, played by Tony Curtis,
sings a "song," which is actually spoken free verse, with no musical
accompaniment, perfectly plausible for that period.

When I was in music school so many years ago, I recall from Music
History class that there are no examples of Roman music. Little to
nothing is known about the music of ancient Rome. So a composer can
really do whatever he wants, with no one to point to an example and say
"this is anachronistic."

Unless something has turned up since then, and it was 36 years ago.


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