Richard Addinsell's most famous piece of music was used in the 1941 film 'Dangerous Moonlight', what is its title?
"November 1977. In 1999 it was revealed that the royalties for ""Warsaw Concerto"" had belonged to the parents of author Jilly Cooper, whose brother advanced the theory that Addinsell – for many years their neighbour – gave it to them as thanks for being discreet about his relationship with Stiebel. Richard Addinsell Richard Stewart Addinsell (13 January 190414 November 1977) was an English composer, best known for film music, primarily his ""Warsaw Concerto"", composed for the 1941 film ""Dangerous Moonlight"" (also known under the later title ""Suicide Squadron""). Richard Addinsell was born in Woburn Square, London, to William Arthur Addinsell,"
"concertos in the Romantic style, which have been dubbed ""tabloid concertos"". The composer, Richard Addinsell, was born in London and initially studied law before turning to a career in music. His time at the Royal College of Music was brief, as he was soon drawn to musical theatre, and he also wrote for radio, but his most memorable contributions are to a series of film scores beginning in 1936. He wrote the music for the 1939 film ""Goodbye, Mr. Chips"", the original ""Gaslight"" (released in 1940, not to be confused with the later Hollywood version), ""Scrooge"", and ""Dangerous Moonlight"" (1941,"
"piece he composed in its entirety while living in the US. Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra premiered the piece in January 1941, which Rachmaninoff attended. In December 1939, Rachmaninoff began an extensive recording period which lasted until February 1942 and included his Piano Concerto Nos. 1 and 3 and Symphony No. 3 at the Philadelphia Academy of Music. In the early 1940s, Rachmaninoff was approached by the makers of the British film ""Dangerous Moonlight"" to write a short concerto-like piece for use in the film, but he declined. The job went to Richard Addinsell and the orchestrator Roy Douglas, who"
"was director at the time. At the composer's request, he was the soloist at the Hungarian premiere of Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 2, in Budapest in 1933, under Otto Klemperer; and the first European performance of the Concerto No. 3 (in London, under Sir Adrian Boult, 27 November 1946). He and Yehudi Menuhin (his second wife's brother-in-law) gave the first performance of William Walton's Violin Sonata, at Zürich on 30 September 1949. His playing was heard in Richard Addinsell's ""Warsaw Concerto"" from the soundtrack of the 1941 film ""Dangerous Moonlight"". However, his hands were not shown, and he preferred to"
"also released in the US as ""Suicide Squadron""). It is this last picture that began the trend of “tabloid concertos,” classical-style compositions written for performance in movies. John Huntley explores the reason behind this concept: The associations which individual members of the audience may have in relation to a certain piece of well-known music are quite beyond the control of the director of a film in which it is used…. And so with ""Dangerous Moonlight"" it was rightly decided to have a piece of music specially written, that could be used to become associated in the mind of the audience"
"""Dangerous Moonlight"", (main roles and screen credits identified): ""Dangerous Moonlight"" was produced by the British unit of RKO, which financed it. Since music was such a key element in the film, Walbrook, who was an accomplished amateur pianist, is seen playing in the film, although the music on the soundtrack is played by the professional pianist Louis Kentner. Kentner's involvement was initially uncredited, as he thought that being seen to be playing film music would not help his career. He changed his mind on seeing the film's success. Aerial scenes were actually filmed in combat and feature the No 74"
"of composer Richard Addinsell. Budd had, at the time, already composed or arranged numerous other film scores, notably those of ""The Wild Geese"" and ""Get Carter"". For ""The Sea Wolves"", Budd added lyrics by Leslie Bricusse to his, Budd's, arrangement of the ""Warsaw Concerto"" music, the resulting song being entitled ""The Precious Moments,"" sung by the British baritone Matt Monro, who had also sung title tracks for many other films. ""The Sea Wolves"" was, in fact, based on more than one clandestine operation of the Second World War. Some details of the film accord closely with those of Operation Postmaster,"
"Goes West"" (1935), Arthur Benjamin on ""Wings of the Morning"" (1937), Anthony Collins on ""Sixty Glorious Years"" (1938), Nicholas Brodzsky on ""Freedom Radio"" (aka ""A Voice in the Night"", 1941) and ""Tomorrow We Live"" (aka ""At Dawn We Die"", 1943), Noël Coward in ""In Which We Serve"" (1942), John Ireland in ""The Overlanders"" (1946), and Walter Goehr in ""Great Expectations"" (1946). In 1937 Roy Douglas first worked with Richard Addinsell, on the score for ""Dark Journey"". They went on to work on such films as ""Victoria the Great"" (1937), ""The Lion Has Wings"" (1939), ""Gaslight"" (1940), ""Old Bill and Son"""
"who saw the film when he was 28, wrote to Korngold admiring the score. He also saw the film more than thirty times just to hear the score, sometimes with his eyes completely closed. Like ""Gone with the Wind"", ""Kings Row"" concludes with the main theme hymned operatically by an unseen chorus. ""Kings Row"" was followed by ""The Constant Nymph"" (1943), ""Between Two Worlds"" (1944), ""Devotion"" (1946), ""Of Human Bondage"" (1946), """"Deception"""" (1946), ""Escape Me Never"" (1947), ""Adventures of Don Juan"" (1948) (unused score) and ""Magic Fire"" (1956). For ""Magic Fire"", he was asked to adapt the music of Richard"
"and Bruce Dickinson. The song title references the Doomsday Clock, the symbolic clock used by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which represents a countdown to potential global catastrophe. In September 1953 the clock reached two minutes to midnight, the closest it ever got to midnight, when the United States and Soviet Union tested H-bombs within nine months of one another. The atomic clock, set at 12 minutes to midnight in 1972, regressed thereafter among USSoviet tensions, reaching three minutes to midnight in 1984 – the year this track was released – and at that time the most dangerous clock"
"wrote and conducted the scores for numerous Thames Silents releases and television screenings. By 1993, his reputation made him the number one choice for new scores to silent films. Many DVD releases, including ""Ben-Hur"" (1925), ""The Phantom of the Opera"" (1925), ""Safety Last"" (1923), DeMille's ""The Godless Girl"" (1928), Chaplin's ""City Lights"" (1931) (re-orchestrated by Davis based on Chaplin's and Padilla's original written score) and Erich von Stroheim's ""Greed"" (1924), use Davis's music. Davis also created an entire re-scoring of Clarence Brown's ""Flesh and the Devil"" (1927). In many of these recordings, he is the conductor as well the composer."
"the GPO Film Unit on films such as ""Big Money"" (1937), ""Job in a Million"" (1937) and ""Men in Danger"" (1939). His film scores included several for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, including ""Black Narcissus"" (1947), ""The Red Shoes"" (1948), ""The Small Back Room"" (1949), ""The Elusive Pimpernel"" (1950), ""The Battle of the River Plate"" (1956), ""Miracle in Soho"" (1957), ""The Queen's Guards"" (1961) and Powell's ""Peeping Tom"" (1960). He was the first British composer to win an Academy Award for Best Original Music Score, for his music for ""The Red Shoes"". A CD of some of Easdale's film music"
"features a guitar solo by Aerosmith's Joe Perry. Ray Charles for his album ""Ain't It So"" (1979) Blues in the Night ""Blues in the Night"" is a popular blues song which has become a pop standard and is generally considered to be part of the Great American Songbook. The music was written by Harold Arlen, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer, for a 1941 film begun with the working title ""Hot Nocturne"", but finally released as ""Blues in the Night"". The song is sung in the film by William Gillespie. Arlen and Mercer wrote the entire score for the 1941 film"
"resonance that belies its small scale. ""Dangerous Moonlight"" takes place at the start of World War II and tells the story of a Polish concert pianist and composer, Stefan Radecki (Anton Walbrook) who defends his country by becoming a fighter pilot. After an air raid in Warsaw by the German army, he is discovered by an American reporter, Carol Peters (Sally Gray), practising the piano in a bombed-out building. It is the opening of his ""Warsaw Concerto"", at this point a work in progress, and the first line he says to her is, ""It is not safe to be out"
"the CD41 album series ""Oh! It's A Lovely War"" (four volumes). Richard Attenborough's sweeping and elaborate film adaptation was released in 1969, also as a musical, and garnered numerous awards. It was Attenborough's debut as a director, and one of Maggie Smith's earliest film appearances. Several Australian World War I movies and miniseries (e.g. ""The Lighthorsemen"" and ""Gallipoli"") have used these songs to give a stronger sense of period to them. The 1985 series ""Anzacs"" used ""Oh, it's a lovely war"" as one of the numbers while the credits rolled, had ""I wore a tunic"" performed as part of an"
"as background music in the Academy Award winning 1979 film Kramer Vs. Kramer with the soundtrack being released by CBS Masterworks Records In the 21st century, the soundtrack of the 2005 film version of ""Pride and Prejudice"" features a dance titled ""A Postcard to Henry Purcell."" This is a version by composer Dario Marianelli of Purcell's ""Abdelazar"" theme. In the German-language 2004 movie, ""Downfall"", the music of Dido's Lament is used repeatedly as the end of the Third Reich culminates. The 2012 film ""Moonrise Kingdom"" contains Benjamin Britten's version of the Rondeau in Purcell's ""Abdelazar"" created for his 1946 ""The"
"(1937), both early films from the director Richard Massingham, as well as incidental music for two plays by W. H. Auden, ""The Dance of Death"" and ""The Dog Beneath the Skin"". He wrote two cello concertos, of which the second ""The Song of the Birds"" (1951), written for and dedicated to Pablo Casals and quoting , has been called his ""masterpiece"". He also wrote some chamber and vocal works, as well as several piano pieces. However, his most frequently performed works now are his choral and organ works: his setting of the ""Magnificat"" and ""Nunc dimittis"" in E major (published"
"Delightfully Dangerous Delightfully Dangerous is a 1945 American musical film directed by Arthur Lubin showcasing teenage singer Jane Powell—in her second film on loan out to United Artists from MGM—and orchestra leader Morton Gould. The working titles of this film were ""Cinderella Goes to War"", ""Reaching for the Stars"" and ""High Among the Stars"". It was Frank Tashlin's first writing credit on a live action feature film. High school music student Sherry Williams is excited that her actress sister Jo has taken time off from her New York stage career to visit Sherry's school to see her perform in a"
"including ""Apple Blossoms"" in 1919 and """" in 1932, a string quartet, and cadenzas, including ones for Brahms's D major violin concerto, Paganini's D major violin concerto, and Beethoven's D major violin concerto. His cadenzas for the Beethoven concerto are the ones most often played by violinists today. He wrote the music for the 1936 movie ""The King Steps Out"" directed by Josef von Sternberg, based on the early years of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Kreisler performed and recorded his own version of the first movement of Paganini's D major violin concerto. The movement is rescored and in some places"
"featured footage from the Rank Organisation's 1960s ""Look at Life"" newsreels. He also orchestrated and conducted some of Richard Rodney Bennett's film music, such as for the 1994 film ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"" and ""Enchanted April"". He was also an arranger for numerous television productions including ""Agatha Christie's Poirot"" and ""The Charmer"". Neil Richardson (composer) Neil Grant Richardson (5 February 1930 – 8 October 2010) was an English composer and conductor. As a composer, he is perhaps best known for ""Approaching Menace"" (the ""Mastermind"" theme tune) and ""The Riviera Affair"". During the 1960s–1990s, he was an arranger and conductor"
"He scored some scenes in ""Gone with the Wind"", including the burning of Atlanta, although he was not credited on-screen. In 1942, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Music Score for ""Yankee Doodle Dandy"". Among the more than 400 other films for which he composed music were ""Gentleman Jim"", ""The Lady From Shanghai"", ""The Invisible Man"", and ""Shine On, Harvest Moon"". After World War II, Roemheld once again returned to Germany to become Chief of the Film, Theatre, and Music Section of the Information Central Division of The American Armies in Europe. He continued writing for several major"
"considered acceptable to perform improvs in public. That was for the privacy of your studio."" Erdman's other important works of the 1940s were ""Daughters of the Lonesome Isle"" (1945) and ""Ophelia"" (1946) with commissioned scores by John Cage on prepared and standard piano respectively, ""Passage"" (1946), ""Hamadryad"" (1948) to Debussy's ""Syrinx"", ""The Perilous Chapel"" (1949), and ""Solstice"" (1950), both with commissioned scores by Lou Harrison. Of ""The Perilous Chapel"" which featured a moving sculptural set by Carlus Dyer and was selected as one of the Best New Works of the Season by ""Dance Magazine"", Doris Hering wrote, ""When the dance"
"The piece is written in a time marking but includes many implicit deviations from it. The 1945 song ""Till the End of Time"" by Buddy Kaye and Bud Mossman is based on the Polonaise's main section. The song ""Oliver Cromwell"" by Monty Python is sung to the first (""A"") section of the Heroic Polonaise. The song ""Hyacinth House"" by The Doors musically quotes the main theme during Ray Manzarek's organ solo. The 1945 film ""A Song to Remember"", a fictionalization of Chopin's life, features the Polonaise. In the first episode of The Addams Family (1964 TV series), Lurch plays the"
"of ethnomusicologist David Fanshawe resulting in the composition and recording of the work, and was nominated for the 'Prix Italia'. An updated version of the film, ""African Sanctus Revisited"", directed by Chappell, was made in 1995. Herbert Chappell Herbert Chappell (born 1934) is a British conductor, composer and film-maker, best known for his television scores. Chappell's many television scores include ""The Shadow of the Tower"" (1972), ""Clouds of Witness"" (1972), ""Murder Must Advertise"" (1973), ""The Pallisers"" (1974), and ""In Loving Memory"" (1969–1986). His theme for the BBC television series ""Songs of Praise"", commissioned in 1980, was used throughout the 1980s."
"again in the early years of the twentieth century. It can be heard in Toru Takemitsu's "" (1984), but its most famous modern usage is, perhaps, in Ravel's ""Boléro"" (1928), where the follows the E-flat clarinet to recommence the main theme for the second time. Gustav Mahler employed the instrument once, in """" (1901), one of his five ""Rückert-Lieder"". American composer William Perry uses the in his film scores and most recently in the third movement of his ""Jamestown Concerto"" for cello and orchestra (2007). In his orchestration of Mussorgsky's ""Pictures at an Exhibition"", Vladimir Ashkenazy uses the to highlight"
"Against Death,"" ""The Miracle of America,"" ""No Help Wanted,"" ""Request Performance,"" ""Saturday Night Swing Club,"" ""Suspense"" and radio crime melodrama ""Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar."" Stevens' piano concerto in C minor was his first work to be used on cinema for the 1947 Hollywood film ""Night Song"". In it Arthur Rubinstein played piano accompanied by the New York Philharmonic and conducted by Eugene Ormandy. The music is tonal, with a horizontal (as distinct from vertical) compositional approach, with sophisticated harmonies and challenging virtuoso passages for the piano. The work is influenced by Delius, Rachmaninov, and Gershwin, and is both impressionist and"
"as well as the ""Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini""."" And although it is at the heart of ""Dangerous Moonlight"", the Concerto is never performed complete but rather revealed piecemeal. The opening of the work is heard when the two protagonists meet, and it is further developed when they are on their honeymoon. Finally, in the only extended concert sequence, we are given the closing section. But its use is not restricted to scenes with the ""composer"" at the piano. The themes are found as underscoring throughout the film, and in this way a brief concert piece gains a dramatic"
"In Moonlight ""In Moonlight"" is a song with music written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1904 to words from the poem """"An Ariette for Music. To a Lady singing to her Accompaniment on the Guitar"""", by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) and published in 1832. The song is adapted to a central section of Elgar's concert-overture ""In the South (Alassio)"" where the """"Canto Popolare"""" melody is introduced by a solo viola with a delicate and imaginative accompaniment, which could be likened to Shelley's ""...accompaniment on the Guitar."" The first performance of ""In the South"" was in March 1904. In"
"He started arranging and conducting operettas by Johann Strauss II and others while teaching opera and composition at the Vienna Staatsakademie. Korngold was awarded the title professor ""honoris causa"" by the president of Austria. After Max Reinhardt's success in producing Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" for the stage, using incidental music by Felix Mendelssohn, he invited Korngold to Hollywood in 1934 to adapt Mendelssohn's score for his planned film version. Korngold would also enlarge and conduct the score. The film, which was released in 1935, was a first for Warner Brothers studio, by producing a film based on a 400-year-old"
"Shostakovich. The music from the film became very well known and the piece ""Romance"" is one of the most famous compositions of the 20th century. The film's score was later arranged into The Gadfly Suite. The complete original score was reconstructed by conductor Mark Fitz-Gerald and published in 2016 as Volume 138 of the DSCH New Collected Works edition. A recording was made with Fitz-Gerald conducting the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz and published in 2017 by Naxos. The Gadfly (1955 film) The Gadfly () is a 1955 Soviet historical drama film based on the eponymous novel by Ethel Lilian Voynich and"
"best-known play and was later adapted into the musical ""Carousel"" by the songwriting team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Molnár sought to regain favor with his wife Lili by portraying her in the role of Juli, and then through his plays ""The Guardsman"" and ""The Wolf"", preceded to explain the complexities of his affair with Irén. ""The Guardsman"" was published in 1910 and served as the basis of the 1931 film of the same name, starring American power couple Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Molnár fell into a deep depression after Irén cut off the affair and returned"
"it as ""The Chimneysweep"". ""The Sydney Morning Herald"" referred to it as the discovery of ""a long-forgotten treasure"". Salieri has even begun to attract some attention from Hollywood. In 2001, his triple concerto was used in the soundtrack of ""The Last Castle"", featuring Robert Redford and James Gandolfini. It is a story that builds on the rivalry between a meticulous but untested officer (Gandolfini) serving as the warden of a military prison and an imprisoned but much admired and highly decorated general (Redford). The Salieri piece is used as the warden's theme music, seemingly to invoke the image of jealousy"
"1940s: ""Is It True What They Say About Dixie?"", ""Change Partners"", ""The Breeze and I"", ""Amapola"", ""My Sister and I"", ""Maria Elena"", ""Green Eyes"", ""Blue Champagne"", ""Tangerine"", ""Besame Mucho"", and ""Pennies from Heaven"" with Bing Crosby. In 1935, he had two more number ones as part of the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra: ""Lullaby of Broadway"" and ""Chasing Shadows"". His biggest hit was ""Amapola"", which was number one for ten weeks in 1941 on the Billboard pop singles chart. And finally, there was a late hit in 1957, ""So Rare"", which went to the No. 2 position, and was on the record"