Bacharach and David composed the music for a 1973 musical remake of which 1937 Frank Capra film?
"dancer Rudolph Nureyev and singer Tom Jones. In 1973, Bacharach and David wrote the score for ""Lost Horizon"", a musical version of the 1937 film. The remake was a critical and commercial disaster and a flurry of lawsuits resulted between the composer and the lyricist, as well as from Warwick. She reportedly felt abandoned when Bacharach and David refused to work together further. Bacharach tried several solo projects, including the 1977 album ""Futures"", but the projects failed to yield hits. He and David reunited briefly in 1975 to write and produce other records. By the early 1980s, Bacharach's marriage to"
"of the time, such as Stan Getz, Cal Tjader, Grant Green, and Wes Montgomery. The Bacharach/David composition ""My Little Red Book"", originally recorded by Manfred Mann for the film ""What's New Pussycat?"", has become a rock standard. Bacharach composed and arranged the soundtrack of the 1967 film ""Casino Royale,"" which included ""The Look of Love"", performed by Dusty Springfield, and the title song, an instrumental Top 40 single for Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. The resulting soundtrack album is widely considered to be one of the finest engineered vinyl recordings of all time, and is much sought after by"
"is immediately followed by the Last Supper, the Betrayal, and the Crucifixion. A film version of the musical was released in 1973, set in modern New York and featuring Victor Garber (from the first Canadian cast) as Jesus, David Haskell (from the original cast) as John the Baptist/Judas, and Lynne Thigpen. Tebelak co-wrote the screenplay and served as creative consultant for the film. The song ""Beautiful City"" was written for and first included in the film. ""Prologue: Tower Of Babel"" was omitted, and ""Learn Your Lessons Well"" and ""We Beseech Thee"" were reduced to minor interludes. Original cast members Robin"
"films, by which time ""tributes, compilations, and revivals were to be found everywhere"". He has been noted for his influence on later musical movements such as chamber pop and Shibuya-kei. In 2015, ""Rolling Stone"" ranked Bacharach and David at number 32 for their list of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. In 2012, the duo received the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the first time the honor has been given to a songwriting team. Bacharach was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up in the Forest Hills section of New York City, graduating from Forest"
"Back to Bacharach and David Back To Bacharach and David is an Off-Broadway revue that featured the songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David in a show created by Steve Gunderson and Kathy Najimy and directed by Najimy, with musical arrangements and orchestrations by Gunderson. The revue comprises the Bacharach/David songs from 1960–1970. The show originally had a limited run at Steve McGraw's Club in New York City in September 1992 and starred Gunderson, Melinda Gilb, Susan Mosher and Carla Renata Williams. It workshopped with Alice Ripley and Lillias White. The show then ran at ""Club 53"" in New York"
"""Moonraker"", also with Barry, sung by Bond regular Shirley Bassey for the film of the same name. David and Bacharach were awarded the 2011 Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, bestowed by the Library of Congress, the first time a songwriting team was given the honor. David was recuperating from a recent illness and was unable to attend the Washington D.C. presentation ceremony in May 2012. David died in the morning hours of September 1, 2012, of a stroke. He was 91. He is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) beside his first wife, Anne, who died in"
"An interesting bar scene combining ""Do You Know the Way to San Jose"" and ""Twenty-Four Hours from Tulsa"" is central to the second act...one of the show's finest moments is its last, when the entire cast assembles onstage for one of Bacharach and David's most enduring anthems, ""What the World Needs Now."" They're able to lift the spirits and the heart just when they're needed most by standing and singing."" The Look of Love (musical) The Look of Love is musical revue of the songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David. The revue was conceived by David Thompson, Scott Ellis,"
"on the songs of Queen). Live-action film musicals were nearly dead in the 1980s and early 1990s, with exceptions of ""Victor/Victoria"", ""Little Shop of Horrors"" and the 1996 film of ""Evita"". In the new century, Baz Luhrmann began a revival of the film musical with ""Moulin Rouge!"" (2001). This was followed by ""Chicago"" (2002); ""Phantom of the Opera"" (2004); ""Dreamgirls"" (2006); ""Hairspray"", ""Enchanted"" and """" (all in 2007); ""Mamma Mia!"" (2008); ""Nine"" (2009); ""Les Misérables"" and ""Pitch Perfect"" (both in 2012), ""Into The Woods"" (2014) and ""La La Land"" (2016), among others. Dr. Seuss's ""How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"" (2000)"
"– in his films. The acts of The Battleship Potemkin (1925) are separated by caesuras that provide a rhythmical contrast to the preceding action. The intense, frenetic action of the mutiny, for example, is followed by the lyrical journey of a dinghy to the shore. The three Burt Bacharach musical sequences in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) provide contrasting caesuras that separate the major actions of the film. Several intense action sequences in """" (2003), including a raging sea storm and fight scenes, are followed by caesuras – quiet, scenic interludes that are often accompanied by melodic cello"
"Springfield recorded the Bacharach-David composition ""The Look of Love"" for the James Bond parody film ""Casino Royale"". For ""one of the slowest-tempo hits"" of the sixties, Bacharach created a ""sultry"" feel by the use of ""minor-seventh and major-seventh chord changes"", while Hal David's lyrics ""epitomized longing and, yes, lust"". This song was recorded in two versions at the Philips Studios of London. The soundtrack version was released on 29 January 1967 and the single version was out on 14 April. ""The Look of Love"" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song of 1967. In the western US, the"
"1967 Burt Bacharach album ""Reach Out"", which was also featured on the soundtrack for the film ""The Boys in the Band"". The Look of Love (1967 song) ""The Look of Love"" is a popular song composed by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and sung by English pop singer Dusty Springfield, which appeared in the 1967 spoof James Bond film ""Casino Royale"". In 2008, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. It also received a Best Song nomination in the 1968 Academy Awards. The music was written by Burt Bacharach, and was originally intended to be an instrumental."
"Man of La Mancha (film) Man of La Mancha is a 1972 film adaptation of the Broadway musical ""Man of La Mancha"" by Dale Wasserman, with music by Mitch Leigh and lyrics by Joe Darion. The musical was suggested by the classic novel ""Don Quixote"" by Miguel de Cervantes, but more directly based on Wasserman's 1959 non-musical television play, ""I, Don Quixote"", which combines a semi-fictional episode from the life of Cervantes with scenes from his novel. The film was financed by an Italian production company, Produzioni Europee Associates, and shot in Rome. However, it is entirely in English, and"
"her father's struggling travelling circus, and looks to the circus's manager, Smiley, to save the day when the performers conspire to strike during a performance. The film survives intact and has been broadcast on television and cable. The International Sound Version of this film also survives. Both versions have been released on DVD. Rain or Shine (film) Rain or Shine is a 1930 American pre-Code film directed by Frank Capra and starring Joe Cook and Louise Fazenda. The film was adapted from a hit Broadway musical of the same name and was originally planned as a full-scale musical. Due to"
"(Reprise)""). The storyline of ""Moulin Rouge"" can be traced back to Alexandre Dumas, ""fils""' ""The Lady of the Camellias"", although Luhrmann, as an opera director, was probably more directly influenced by Verdi's adaptation, ""La traviata"". When asked about his inspiration for ""Moulin Rouge!"", Luhrmann remarked: Luhrmann revealed that he drew from the Greek tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice in the DVD's audio commentary. The legend of Orpheus says he was a musical genius, far surpassing anyone in his world; the filmmakers chose to replicate this by using songs from the mid-to-late 20th century, many decades after the film's 1899 setting."
"The song originated when Bacharach and David were asked to write a song with the title ""Wives and Lovers"", on the theme of marital infidelity, as a promotional tie-in for the 1963 film ""Wives and Lovers"". The song did not appear in the film but was intended simply to promote the film; which made it what was known at the time as an ""exploitation song"". Similarly, the song ""The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,"" which Bacharach and David wrote in 1962, promoted, but was not featured in, the film ""The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"". Wives and Lovers ""Wives and"
"A Wonderful Life (musical) A Wonderful Life is a 1986 musical with a book and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and music by Joe Raposo. Based on the classic Frank Capra film ""It's a Wonderful Life"" starring James Stewart, the story closely follows the original plot, set in 1945, telling the story of a suicidal man whose guardian angel reveals to him how different the world and everyone whose life he has touched would be had he never been born. The film was, in turn, based on a 1938 short story by Philip Van Doren Stern called ""The Greatest Gift"". Harnick"
"the first film, which was to a degree inspired by ""Casino Royale"". For the European release, Mireille Mathieu sang versions of ""The Look of Love"" in both French (""Les Yeux D'Amour""), and German (""Ein Blick von Dir""). Bacharach would later rework two tracks of the score into songs: ""Home James, Don't Spare the Horses"" was re-arranged as ""Bond Street"", appearing on Bacharach's album ""Reach Out"" (1967), and ""Flying Saucer – First Stop Berlin"", was reworked with vocals as ""Let the Love Come Through"" by orchestra leader and arranger Roland Shaw. A clarinet melody would later be featured in a Cracker"
"My Little Red Book ""My Little Red Book"" is a song composed by Burt Bacharach with lyrics by Hal David. In the wake of the British Invasion, Bacharach, a former bandleader for Marlene Dietrich, began working hands-on with beat groups of the era such as Manfred Mann. Manfred Mann recorded the song for the 1965 film ""What's New Pussycat?"", filmed between October 1964 and June 1965; the entire catalogue of music for the film was written by Bacharach and David. In 1966, the song became a rock standard when remade by the Los Angeles based group Love, where it reached"
"Bacharach asked Director John Asher to see the film and offered to score it. """"It touched me very much,"""" the composer says. """"I had gone through this with Nikki. Sometimes you do things that make you feel. It's not about money or rewards."""" Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Bacharach was featured in a dozen television musical and variety specials videotaped in the UK for ITC; several were nominated for Emmy Awards for direction (by Dwight Hemion). The guests included artists such as Joel Grey, Dusty Springfield, Dionne Warwick, and Barbra Streisand. Bacharach and David did the score for an original"
"Godspell (film) Godspell (also known as ""Godspell: A Musical Based on the Gospel According to St. Matthew"") is the 1973 musical film of the Off-Broadway musical ""Godspell"" created by John-Michael Tebelak with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. Directed by David Greene with stars Victor Garber as Jesus and David Haskell as Judas/John the Baptist, the film is set in contemporary New York City. John-Michael Tebelak is credited as co-writer of the screenplay and served as the creative consultant, although director David Greene said Tebelak did not write the screenplay. The structure of the musical is, in large part, retained:"
"Song of Scheherazade Song of Scheherazade is a 1947 American musical film directed by Walter Reisch. It tells the story of an imaginary episode in the life of the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Jean-Pierre Aumont), in 1865, when he was a young naval officer on shore leave in Morocco. It also features Yvonne De Carlo as a Spanish dancer named Cara de Talavera, Eve Arden as her mother, and Brian Donlevy as the ship's captain. Charles Kullman (credited as Charles Kullmann), a tenor with the Metropolitan Opera, plays the ship's doctor, Klin, who sings two of Rimsky-Korsakov's melodies. Rimsky-Korsakov, a"
"the movie to something close to its 1927 incarnation, two scores were prepared in 1979–1980; one by Carl Davis in the UK and one by Carmine Coppola in the US. Beginning in late 1979, Carmine Coppola composed a score incorporating themes taken from various sources such as Ludwig van Beethoven, Hector Berlioz, Bedřich Smetana, Felix Mendelssohn and George Frideric Handel. He composed three original themes: an heroic one for Napoleon, a love theme for scenes with Josephine, and a Buonaparte family theme. He also used French revolutionary songs that were supplied by Davis in early 1980 during a London meeting"
"1776 (film) 1776 is a 1972 American musical drama film directed by Peter H. Hunt. The screenplay by Peter Stone was based on his book for the 1969 Broadway musical of the same name. The song score was composed by Sherman Edwards. The film stars William Daniels, Howard Da Silva, Donald Madden, John Cullum, Ken Howard and Blythe Danner. Portions of the dialogue and some of the song lyrics were taken directly from the letters and memoirs of the actual participants of the Second Continental Congress. While General George Washington is conducting the struggle against the British Empire on the"
"the version of 1881; although the third act was cut at the premiere, the location of the second act (Antonia) was changed from Munich to Venice in order to retain the duet, which was sung by offstage chorus and soloists rather than characters. The Barcarolle inspired the English composer Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji to write his ""Passeggiata veneziana sopra la Barcarola di Offenbach"" (1955–56). Moritz Moszkowski also wrote a virtuoso transcription of it for piano. Many subsequent films have made use of Offenbach's music for the Barcarolle, most famously ""Life is Beautiful"" (1997). The piece, which in this film represents European"
"Alliance Theatre (Atlanta), the Criterion Theatre (New York), the Canon Theatre (Los Angeles) and the Pasadena Playhouse. Gunderson is an award-winning composer who has written scores for theater, ballet, television and radio. He has been a creative force behind such shows as ""Suds: The Rockin’ 60s Musical Soap Opera"", ""Back to Bacharach and David"", ""Two Rockin’ Gents"", ""Dixie Highway"", ""A Christmas Carol"", ""More Magic"", and ""The Melinda and Steve Show"" with Melinda Gilb. Gunderson has been best friends with actress Kathy Najimy for thirty years. The two co-wrote ""Back To Bacharach and David"" and appeared together in the film """""
"Roberta (1935 film) Roberta is a 1935 musical film by RKO starring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Randolph Scott. It was an adaptation of a 1933 Broadway musical ""Roberta"", which in turn was based on the novel ""Gowns by Roberta"" by Alice Duer Miller. It was a solid hit, showing a net profit of more than three-quarters of a million dollars. The film kept the famous songs ""Yesterdays"", ""Let's Begin"" (with altered lyrics), and ""Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"" from the play, along with a fourth song, ""I'll Be Hard to Handle"". Three songs from the play were"
"musical for ABC-TV titled ""On the Flip Side"", broadcast on ""ABC Stage 67"", starring Ricky Nelson as a faded pop star trying for a comeback. While the ratings were dismal, the soundtrack showcased Bacharach's abilities to try different kinds of musical styles, ranging from (almost) 1960s rock, to pop, ballads, and Latin-tinged dance numbers. In 1969, Harry Betts arranged Bacharach's instrumental composition ""Nikki"" (named for Bacharach's daughter) into a new theme for the ""ABC Movie of the Week"", a television series that ran on the U.S. network until 1976. During the 1970s, Bacharach and then-wife Angie Dickinson appeared in several"
"Victor/Victoria (musical) Victor/Victoria is a musical with a book by Blake Edwards, music by Henry Mancini, lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and additional musical material (music and lyrics) by Frank Wildhorn. It is based on the 1982 film of the same name which was a remake of the German film comedy ""Viktor und Viktoria"" shot by Reinhold Schünzel in 1933 from his own script. Mancini died before he could complete the music, and Wildhorn was brought in to finish the score. The original Broadway production, in 1995, created mild controversy when the star, Julie Andrews, feeling that the rest of the"
"original cast album was released with a dominant orchestral backing, and so although the album was recorded and printed, it was never released. Despite these setbacks, the film still achieved some success and some of the film's songs, including ""Freedom"" are still considered classics. The songs and score were written by the Sherman Brothers. Huckleberry Finn (1974 film) Huckleberry Finn is a 1974 musical film version of Mark Twain's ""The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"". The movie was produced by ""Reader's Digest"" and Arthur P. Jacobs (known for his role in the production of the ""Planet of the Apes"" films) and"
"NBC television production starring Carrie Underwood and Stephen Moyer was released on CD and digital download in December 2013 on the Sony Masterworks label. Also featured on the album are Audra McDonald, Laura Benanti and Christian Borle. The Sound of Music The Sound of Music is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp, ""The Story of the Trapp Family Singers"". Set in Austria on the eve of the ""Anschluss"" in 1938, the musical tells the story"
"Opera, Montmartre lanes as well as salons and cafés. As well as the symphony, the music used in the film includes the ""Invitation to the Dance"" by Weber, ""Roméo et Juliette"" (during the scene where Berlioz and Smithson fall in love), a staged excerpt from the first act of ""Benvenuto Cellini"", the ""Rákóczi March"" from ""La damnation de Faust"" and the ""Requiem"". In 2003 the film was re-issued by René Chateau Video. La Symphonie fantastique La Symphonie fantastique is a 1942 French drama film by Christian-Jaque and produced by the German-controlled French film production company Continental Films. The film is"
"film ends on a grim note; as the performance of the ""Eroica"" ends, Beethoven looks at his audience and is momentarily unable to hear any natural sounds — an ominous sign of his approaching deafness. Eroica (2003 film) Eroica is a BBC television film that dramatises the first performance of Beethoven's third symphony, the Eroica. It carries the tagline ‘The day that changed music forever’. The film was directed by Simon Cellan Jones, written by Nick Dear and starred Ian Hart, Tim Pigott-Smith, Anton Lesser and Frank Finlay. The music was played by Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and conducted by"
"the soundtrack, could only have been done on film. The film also allowed the music to be heard in six-track hi-fi sound, while in the play the audience heard it through tinny loudspeakers. In other cases, such as ""Camille"" (1936), ""Cabaret"" (1972), and ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" (1975), the original stage dialogue is completely discarded and an entirely new script is written for the film version, even if the basic plot of the play is still followed. This has also happened with musical films such as the 1936 and 1954 film versions of ""Rose-Marie"", the 1943 and 1953"