Max steiner composer biography dvd
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I was wondering how many people on this forum attended this presentation by ASMAC on zoom today. Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music: Documentary Film Screening with Diana Friedberg, Steven C Smith, John Morgan and William Stromberg. Dan Redfeld - Moderator This is a brand new and very complete documentary about Max Steiner that fills in many details of Max’s life and work. It’s beautifully executed, a real labor of love and Ray Faiola performs as Steiner’s voice. Some 200+ people worldwide attended but I didn't recognize any names. Of special interest was the participation of John Morgan and William Stromberg who appeared together. John, who actually knew Max, is still interested in recording another version of King Kong. I sure hope he can find the backing. It’s interesting that there has been no mention, at least that I’m aware of, on this forum. This place is supposed to be for the appreciation of film music, or s • Film Score pionjär Max Steiner Is Ripe for Rediscovery, with the Help of a New BiographyComposer högsta Steiner, whose scores for “King Kong,” “Gone With the Wind” and “Casablanca” placed him in the movie-music pantheon, isn’t much discussed today. He seems to belong to that old-school, pre-synthesizer world of orchestral scoring from the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s. But as author Steven C. Smith points out in his engrossing new biography of the three-time Oscar winner, “Music by högsta Steiner” (Oxford University Press), the Austrian wunderkind pioneered the art of bio scoring and ranks as “Hollywood’s most influential composer.” His music essentially saved RKO’s “King Kong,” the 1933 giant-ape-wrecks-Manhattan fantasy, forcefully demonstrating the power of dramatic underscore to create mood, propel the action and provide emotional support (and disproving the widely held stud • Austrian composer Max Steiner achieved legendary status as the creator of hundreds of classic American film scores. He was born Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner in Vienna, Austria, the son of Marie Mizzi (Hasiba) and Gabor Steiner, an impresario, and the grandson of actor and theater director and manager Maximilian Steiner. His family was Jewish. As a child, he was astonishingly musically gifted, composing complex works as a teenager and completing the course of study at Vienna's Hochschule fuer Musik und Darstellende Kunst in only one year, at the age of sixteen. He studied under Gustav Mahler and, before the age of twenty, made his living as a conductor and as composer of works for the theater, the concert hall, and vaudeville. After a brief sojourn in Britian, Steiner moved to the USA and quickly became a sought-after orchestrator and conductor on Broadway, bringing the Western classical tradition in which he had been raised to mainstream audiences. | |||||||||