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Apr 21, 2013 0
Unchained Melody by Edgar Cruz
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Edgar Cruz is an independent classical and fingerstyle guitarist from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Having recorded over a sixteen CDs in styles ranging from classical to flamenco to pop to jazz, Cruz is perhaps best known for his fingerstyle arrangement of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody“. |
Aug 22, 2012 0
Married Life Up Theme by Michael Giacchino (1967-)
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Michael Giacchino is an Italian American composer who has composed scores for movies, television series and video games. Some of his most notable works include the scores to television series. Giacchino has received numerous awards for his work, including an Emmy, multiple Grammys, a Golden Globe Award, and an Academy Award. |
Aug 15, 2012 0
Requiem Funeral of Queen Mary II by Henry Purcell (1924-1994)
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Henry Purcell was an English organist and Baroque composer of secular and sacred music. Although Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions, his legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music. |
Jun 12, 2012 0
Days Of Wine And Rose by Henry Mancini (1924-1994)
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Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards (20), plus a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995. |
Jun 2, 2012 0
Historia de Un Amor (version 2) by Carlos Eleta Almarán
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Historia de un Amor (Spanish for “a love story”) is a song about a man’s old love written by Panamanian songwriter Carlos Eleta Almarán. It was written after the death of his brother’s wife. It is also in the soundtrack of a 1956 Mexican movie of the same name starring Libertad Lamarque. The song tells of a man’s suffering after his love has disappeared. It may be interpreted that love is a story for a woman but it’s just an episode for a man. |
May 21, 2012 0
History de Un Amor by Carlos Eleta Almarán
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Historia de un Amor (Spanish for “a love story”) is a song about a man’s old love written by Panamanian songwriter Carlos Eleta Almarán. It was written after the death of his brother’s wife. It is also in the soundtrack of a 1956 Mexican movie of the same name starring Libertad Lamarque. The song tells of a man’s suffering after his love has disappeared. It may be interpreted that love is a story for a woman but it’s just an episode for a man. |
Mar 19, 2012 0
Impromptus Elegiaco III by Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-)
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, CBE (born 29 March 1936, Broadstairs, Kent) is an English composer renowned for his film scores and his jazz performance as much as for his challenging concert works. He has lived in New York City since 1979.
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Mar 19, 2012 0
Somewhere by Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
Leonard Bernstein was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim. According to The New York Times, he was “one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history.”His fame derived from his long tenure as the music director of the New York Philharmonic, from his conducting of concerts with most of the world’s leading orchestras, and from his music for West Side Story, as well as Candide, Wonderful Town, On the Town and his own Mass. As a composer he was prolific, writing symphonies, ballet music, operas, chamber music, pieces for the piano, other orchestral and choral works, and other concert and incidental music, but the tremendous success of West Side Story remained unequaled by his other compositions.
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Mar 18, 2012 0
Walking In The Air by Howard Blake (1938-)
Howard Blake, OBE is an English composer, particularly noted for his film scores, although he is prolific in several fields of classical and light music. His most popular work includes music for The Bear and The Duellists but he receives most acclaim for the orchestral scores he provided for the 1980 film Flash Gordon and his highly successful work for the Channel 4 production The Snowman in 1982.
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Feb 28, 2012 0
The Lonely Man Theme from the incredible hulk soundtrack by Joe Harnell (1924-2005)
Joseph “Joe” Harnell, one of Kenneth Johnson’s favorite composers, composed the music for The Incredible Hulk. He was brought into the production due to his involvement with the series The Bionic Woman, which Johnson had also created and produced. The score used at the beginning and closing credits was a piano piece called “The Lonely Man.” Portions of “The Lonely Man” can be heard in the 2008 film The Incredible Hulk. Some of the series music was collected into a soundtrack.
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