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Sunday, June 20, 2010 — Friday, June 25, 2010
# 18902: Classic Hollywood Film Scores; Early Film Musicals; Titanic: Triumph to Tragedy
Program
Classic Hollywood Film Scores
featuring John Weber
Music plays a huge role in the moviegoer's enjoyment. Experience the finest examples of music written for film, from its beginnings as piano music for silent movies, to the golden age of lushly orchestrated scores for the big studios.
Early Film Musicals
featuring Bill Messenger
The Jazz Singer ushered in the age of film musicals. Director Busby Berkeley came to Hollywood to create his geometric film fantasies. Then came Fred Astaire's naturalistic approach. Explore the film musical as it existed before MGM's golden age!
Titanic: Triumph to Tragedy
featuring Ernest Liotti
What fascinates us about this 1912 tragedy, which changed society's view of "man over nature"? Now almost one hundred years old, revisit events leading to the disaster with particular emphasis on film accounts of the event.
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