Max Steiner: from King Kong to Casablanca

The Soundtrack Show

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Film History, Music, Music History, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 18 July 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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We take a first look at the work of composer Max Steiner, and sample his work from King Kong, Casablanca, Gone With The Wind and more. We also discuss the incredible influence that Steiner has on today's most beloved film franchises, and the important role he played in the development of modern film music techniques. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The soundtrack show will begin in five, four, three.
0:10.0	Our modern day creative heroes have heroes of their own.
0:14.0	One of film music's most influential and prolific
0:17.4	composers is from the golden age of Hollywood.
0:20.4	He's regarded by many as the father of film music. He is Max Steiner, and this is the soundtrack show. Oh, The After a musical score has been composed, weeks of intensive work follow before the music finally is heard on the screen.
1:09.0	Arrangements, orchestrations, rehearsals, and then the big day on a studio scoring stage when a symphony orchestra
1:16.3	brings to life the composer's themes. Here we see the orchestra as it plays in synchronism with
1:22.2	the picture on a miniature screen.
1:25.0	There was a period of approximately 20 years
1:30.0	when the predominant musical voice in Hollywood was that of a kind of classical style.
1:37.0	That time is sometimes referred to as the golden age of Hollywood music.
1:44.4	Context is everything.
1:47.3	Welcome back to the soundtrack show.
1:48.8	I'm your host David W Collins.
1:50.6	And in this episode, we're going to chat about one of the greatest and most prolific
1:54.7	film composers of all time, Max Steiner.
1:59.8	Who?
2:00.8	Some of you may be asking?
2:02.2	And why? I don't even know any of his music or I haven't seen any of the films he wrote music for
2:08.1	Well, maybe I have if these thoughts or similar thoughts are going through your head right now, then I want to start this episode by saying again,
2:17.0	context is everything.
2:20.0	It's a phrase I often say to myself when I discover something new.
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