"face to face with the Yeti, only the eyes are seen: Guest used Fred Johnson to play the Yeti in this scene, relying on his ""eyes of worldly understanding"" to convey the benign nature of the Yeti. The musical score was provided by Humphrey Searle, his only score for Hammer. The score was heavily influenced by that of another film with the theme of exploration: ""Scott of the Antarctic"" (1948), composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams. ""The Abominable Snowman"" was released on 26 August 1957, with an 'A' Certificate from the British Board of Film Censors, as part of a double"
"Sinfonia antartica Sinfonia antartica (""Antarctic Symphony"") is the Italian title given by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams to his seventh symphony. Vaughan Williams provided the music for the film ""Scott of the Antarctic"" in 1947, and was so inspired by the subject that he incorporated much of the music into a symphony. The piece was begun in 1949, and composition completed in 1952, with a dedication to Ernest Irving. The first performance took place on 14 January 1953 in Manchester with Sir John Barbirolli conducting the Hallé Orchestra; the soprano soloist was Margaret Ritchie. The first American performance was"
"Antarctica (Vangelis album) Antarctica is a soundtrack album by the Greek electronic composer Vangelis, released in 1983. It is the score of the 1983 Japanese film ""Antarctica"" (""""Nankyoku Monogatari"""", lit. ""South Pole Story"") directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara, and was nominated by the Japan Academy for ""Best Music Score"". For years, the soundtrack album was only available in Japan, appearing in other countries as a rare and expensive import, when in 1988 Polydor finally decided to release the album worldwide. There are two different CD covers, one predominantly white and the other depicting a frame from the film with the dogs."
"music for the film ""Scott of the Antarctic"", to help set the bleakness of the overall atmosphere. While a chorus is used in the second and third movements of Glass's Seventh Symphony, also known as ""A Toltec Symphony"", the text contains no actual words; the composer states that it is instead formed ""from loose syllables that add to the evocative context of the overall orchestral texture"". Stravinsky said about the texts of his ""Symphony of Psalms"" that ""it is not a symphony in which I have included ""Psalms"" to be sung. On the contrary, it is the singing of the"
"horror and science fiction films but also for other studios and for television. His most celebrated scores include ""The Wolf Man"" (1941), ""Scarlet Street"" (1945), ""Creature from the Black Lagoon"" (1954) and ""The Incredible Shrinking Man"" (1957). Salter was nominated for an Academy Award for several films, including ""Christmas Holiday"" (1944) and ""This Love Of Ours"" (1945). Much of his output for Universal was uncredited, where it was used as stock music, in minor pictures. Notable non-horror scores include the Western ""Bend of the River"" (1953) and the Swashbuckler ""Against All Flags"" (1952). Salter died in Studio City, California on"
"for the other seven symphonies put together . Three years earlier the British Antarctic Survey, which was seeking to promote the region's significance, had asked the Philharmonia Orchestra to recommend a composer for the commission of an orchestral work intended to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams's score for the 1948 film ""Scott of the Antarctic"" and the Seventh Symphony (""Sinfonia antartica"") which he fashioned out of that film score. Davies, as a committed environmentalist, was chosen. Terms of the commission required the composer to visit Antarctica, which he did for three weeks from late December 1997 to"
"Howard Shore Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer who is notable for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for ""The Lord of the Rings"" and ""The Hobbit"" film trilogies. He won three Academy Awards for his work on the first trilogy, with one being for the original song ""Into the West"", an award he shared with Eurythmics lead vocalist Annie Lennox and writer/producer Fran Walsh, who wrote the lyrics. He is also a consistent collaborator with director David Cronenberg, having scored all but one of"
"Herbert Menges. He also worked as a copyist for Ralph Vaughan Williams on the score of the 1948 film ""Scott of the Antarctic"" and with Benjamin Britten on his chamber opera ""Albert Herring."" In 1949 Cook was appointed as Organist and Choirmaster at Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon where he served for five years before accepting a similar post at St. Paul's Cathedral in London, Ontario. It was during this time that he joined the teaching faculty of the University of Western Ontario and commenced his nine-year association with the Stratford Festival as resident conductor and composer. Cook left"
"of Allmusic described it as a very good ""dynamic and dramatic set"" of music, ""conveying feelings of angst, isolation, and even desolation"", but ""does not convey the iciness that listeners would expect"". Antarctica (Vangelis album) Antarctica is a soundtrack album by the Greek electronic composer Vangelis, released in 1983. It is the score of the 1983 Japanese film ""Antarctica"" (""""Nankyoku Monogatari"""", lit. ""South Pole Story"") directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara, and was nominated by the Japan Academy for ""Best Music Score"". For years, the soundtrack album was only available in Japan, appearing in other countries as a rare and expensive import,"
"the critic Andrew Achenbach, a neglected masterpiece. In addition to the music for ""Scott of the Antarctic"", Vaughan Williams composed incidental music for eleven other films, from ""49th Parallel"" (1941) to ""The Vision of William Blake"" (1957). By comparison with his output in other genres, Vaughan Williams's music for chamber ensembles and solo instruments forms a small part of his oeuvre. ""Grove"" lists twenty-four pieces under the heading ""Chamber and instrumental""; three are early, unpublished works. Vaughan Williams, like most leading British 20th-century composers, was not drawn to the solo piano and wrote little for it. From his mature years,"
"Vangelis Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou (born 29 March 1943), known professionally as Vangelis (; ), is a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, and orchestral music. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning score for the film ""Chariots of Fire"", also composing scores for the films ""Blade Runner"", ""Missing"", ""Antarctica"", ""The Bounty"", """", and ""Alexander"", and the use of his music in the PBS documentary """" by Carl Sagan. Vangelis began his career working with several popular bands of the 1960s such as the Forminx and Aphrodite's Child, with the latter's album ""666"" going on to be recognized as"
"it was surpassed by Hayao Miyazaki's ""Princess Mononoke"" in 1997. The original electronic score was created by Greek composer Vangelis, who had recently written music for ""Chariots of Fire"" and ""Blade Runner"". The soundtrack is available worldwide on CD-audio as ""Antarctica"". In February 1958, the Second Cross-Winter Expedition for the Japanese Antarctic Surveying Team rides on the icebreaker ""Sōya"" to take over from the 11-man First Cross-Winter Expedition. The First Cross-Winter Expedition retreats by helicopter, leaving 15 Sakhalin huskies chained up at the Showa Base for the next Expedition. Due to the extreme weather conditions, ""Sōya"" can not get near"
"masterpiece of economy and precision"". Unfinished works from the decade were a cello concerto and a new opera, ""Thomas the Rhymer"". The predominant works of the 1950s were his three last symphonies. The seventh—officially unnumbered, and titled ""Sinfonia antartica""—divided opinion; the score is a reworking of music Vaughan Williams had written for the 1948 film ""Scott of the Antarctic"", and some critics thought it not truly symphonic. The Eighth, though wistful in parts, is predominantly lighthearted in tone; it was received enthusiastically at its premiere in 1956, given by the Hallé Orchestra under the dedicatee, Sir John Barbirolli. The Ninth,"
"on films, including the scores to ""The Naked World of Harrison Marks"" (1967), ""The Penthouse"" (1967), and ""Zeta One"" (1970). ""Er Indoors"", one of his compositions, saw frequent use in the Nickelodeon TV Series SpongeBob SquarePants, in which it was generally associated with Avid Spongebob fan Patchy the Pirate. Hawksworth has also written many pieces of stock music for the De Wolfe Music library. He also provided the hypnotic musical soundtrack to Geoffrey Jones' classic British Transport Film ""Snow"" (1963). Johnny Hawksworth Johnny Hawksworth (2 February 1924 – 13 February 2009) was a British musician and composer who had lived"
"Nathan Scott (composer) Nathan Scott (May 11, 1915 – February 27, 2010) was an American film score and television composer. He composed, conducted, arranged and orchestrated more than 850 separate credits in television, as well as the music for more than 100 films. His credits in television included ""Lassie"", ""The Twilight Zone"" and ""Dragnet"", while his film credits included the film score for ""Wake of the Red Witch"". Scott was born in Salinas, California. He received a bachelor's degree in music from the University of California, Berkeley in 1939. He began working in radio broadcasting after graduation. Scott was named"
"Nick Glennie-Smith Nick Glennie-Smith (born 3 October 1951) is an English film score composer, conductor, and musician who is a frequent collaborator with Hans Zimmer, contributing to scores including that of the Academy Award-nominated 1994 animated film ""The Lion King"", the 1996 action film ""The Rock"", the 2006 historical movie ""Children of Glory"" and the 1993 spy thriller ""Point of No Return"". Glennie-Smith has also written the scores for the films ""Home Alone 3"", ""The Man in the Iron Mask"", ""We Were Soldiers"", ""Secretariat"", and the score for the Disney animated film """", ""Lauras Stern"", ""Der kleine Eisbär 2 -"
"The Adventures. Nick Glennie-Smith Nick Glennie-Smith (born 3 October 1951) is an English film score composer, conductor, and musician who is a frequent collaborator with Hans Zimmer, contributing to scores including that of the Academy Award-nominated 1994 animated film ""The Lion King"", the 1996 action film ""The Rock"", the 2006 historical movie ""Children of Glory"" and the 1993 spy thriller ""Point of No Return"". Glennie-Smith has also written the scores for the films ""Home Alone 3"", ""The Man in the Iron Mask"", ""We Were Soldiers"", ""Secretariat"", and the score for the Disney animated film """", ""Lauras Stern"", ""Der kleine Eisbär"
"Alexandre Desplat Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat (; born 23 August 1961) is a French film composer. He has won two Academy Awards for his musical scores to the films ""The Grand Budapest Hotel"" and ""The Shape of Water"", and received seven additional Academy Award nominations, eight César nominations (winning three), seven BAFTA nominations (winning three), seven Golden Globe Award nominations (winning two), and six Grammy nominations (winning two). Desplat has worked on a variety of films, including independent and commercial successes ""The Queen"", ""The Golden Compass"", ""The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"", """", ""Fantastic Mr. Fox"", ""Harry Potter and the"
"song, ""Unchained Melody"". Nominated for fifteen Oscars but unsuccessful each time, North is one of only two film composers to receive the Lifetime Achievement Academy Award, the other being Ennio Morricone. North's frequent collaborator as orchestrator was the avant-garde composer Henry Brant. He won the 1968 Golden Globe award for his music to ""The Shoes of the Fisherman"" (1968). His best-known film scores include ""A Streetcar Named Desire"", ""Death of a Salesman"", ""Viva Zapata!"", ""The Rainmaker"", ""Spartacus"", ""The Misfits"", ""Cleopatra"", ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"", ""Dragonslayer"" and ""Under the Volcano"". His music for ""The Wonderful Country"" makes use of Mexican"
"Elmer Bernstein Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor who is best known for his film scores. In a career that spanned more than five decades, he composed ""some of the most recognizable and memorable themes in Hollywood history"", including over 150 original movie scores, as well as scores for nearly 80 television productions. Examples of his widely popular and critically acclaimed works are scores to ""The Magnificent Seven"", ""The Ten Commandments"", ""The Great Escape"", ""To Kill a Mockingbird"", ""Ghostbusters"", ""The Black Cauldron"", ""Airplane!"", ""The Rookies"", ""Cape Fear"", ""Animal House"", and ""The Age of"
"Alfred Newman (composer) Alfred Newman (March 17, 1901 – February 17, 1970) was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of film music. From his start as a music prodigy, he came to be regarded as a respected figure in the history of film music. He won nine Academy Awards and was nominated forty-three times. In a career spanning more than four decades, Newman composed the scores for over 200 motion pictures. Some of his most famous scores include ""Wuthering Heights"", ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"", ""The Mark of Zorro"", ""How Green Was My Valley"", ""The Song of Bernadette"", ""Captain from"
"Hubert Bath Hubert Charles Bath (6 November 188324 April 1945) was a British film composer, music director, and conductor. His credits include ""Tudor Rose"" (1936), ""A Yank at Oxford"" (1938) and ""Millions Like Us"" (1943). Bath was born in Barnstaple, Devon in 1883. In 1924, Bath was named as co-respondent in the divorce case between Colonel Alfred Rawlinson and the actress Jean Aylwin. His composition ""Out of the Blue"" has been used as the theme music of ""Sports Report"" since the programme started in 1948. Also well-known is his ""Cornish Rhapsody"", written for, and essential to the plot of, the"
"and fellow Disney orchestra members who had died earlier that year within a month of each other. He was buried in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery. Frank Churchill Frank Churchill (October 20, 1901 – May 14, 1942) was an American film composer. He wrote most of the music for Disney's 1937 movie ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"", including ""Heigh-Ho"", ""Whistle While You Work"", and ""Some Day My Prince Will Come"". Other Disney films that he worked on include ""Dumbo,"" ""Bambi,"" and ""The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad."" Churchill was born in Rumford, Maine, on October 20, 1901."
"scores for ""Blade Runner"" and ""Chariots of Fire"" for their list of the 25 greatest film scores. Vangelis Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou (born 29 March 1943), known professionally as Vangelis (; ), is a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, and orchestral music. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning score for the film ""Chariots of Fire"", also composing scores for the films ""Blade Runner"", ""Missing"", ""Antarctica"", ""The Bounty"", """", and ""Alexander"", and the use of his music in the PBS documentary """" by Carl Sagan. Vangelis began his career working with several popular bands of the 1960s such"
"Sea of Monsters ""Sea of Monsters"" is an instrumental orchestral piece conducted and composed by The Beatles' producer George Martin for the ""Yellow Submarine"" film and was the fourth track on the orchestral Side 2 of the film's soundtrack album by The Beatles, released in 1969. The piece was recorded by a 41-piece orchestra at Abbey Road studios on 22–23 October 1968. The piece, along with the rest of the film score, was tied to the visuals of the film. Martin interpolated, along with the various other effects, a section from Bach's Air on the G String toward the end"
"Henry Mancini Enrico Nicola ""Henry"" Mancini (; April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor and arranger, who is best remembered for his film and television scores. Often cited as one of the greatest composers in the history of film, he won four Academy Awards, a Golden Globe, and twenty Grammy Awards, plus a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. His best known works include the theme and soundtrack for the ""Peter Gunn"" television series as well as the music for ""The Pink Panther"" film series (""The Pink Panther Theme"") and ""Moon River"" from ""Breakfast"
"Joseph LoDuca Joseph LoDuca is an American television and film score composer best known for his work writing television scores for the series ""Spartacus"", ""Leverage"", """", """", ""Young Hercules"", ""The Librarians"" TV series, ""American Gothic"" and ""Jack of All Trades"". Originally an accomplished jazz guitarist in the Detroit (MI, USA) area, LoDuca frequently provides music for producer/director Sam Raimi, producer/director Dean Devlin and actor Bruce Campbell's films and series. Prior to his work on ""The Evil Dead"", his first film, he released a jazz LP titled ""Glisten"". LoDuca's credits include 2 Primetime Emmy Awards, 11 Primetime Emmy Nominations, and “Most"
"2001: A Space Odyssey (score) The ""2001: A Space Odyssey"" score is an unused film score composed by Alex North for Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film, ""."" In the early stages of production, Kubrick had commissioned noted Hollywood composer Alex North, who had written the score for ""Spartacus"" and also worked on ""Dr. Strangelove"", to write the score of his upcoming film """". However, during post-production, Kubrick chose to abandon North's music in favor of the now-familiar classical music pieces he had earlier chosen as ""guide pieces"" for the soundtrack. North did not know of the abandonment of the score until"
"the early 1960s he divorced Magda who went with McHale to America. Cordell married his second wife Anja whom he met on film location in Japan while doing the music score for the 1964 film ""Flight from Ashiya"". He wrote the theme music for the spy adventure directed by Robert Lansing (actor) called ""The Man Who Never Was"" 1966-67, and wrote ""The White Mountain"" introductory music for the science fiction episode of """" - ""Mission of the Darians"" in 1975. Frank Cordell composed over twenty major music scores including ""The Voice of Merrill"" (1952), ""First on the Road"" (1959), ""The"
"Atli Örvarsson Atli Örvarsson (; born 7 July 1970) is an Icelandic film score composer. Atli's credits include composing and orchestrating music for some of Hollywood's biggest projects, including the Pirates of the Caribbean series, ""Angels & Demons"", ""The Holiday"", ""The Eagle"", ""Vantage Point"", ""Babylon A.D."", ""Thick as Thieves"", ""The Fourth Kind"", and ""Season of the Witch"". Atli's most recent credits include """", """", ""A Single Shot"", NBC series ""Chicago Fire"", and together with Hans Zimmer contributed music to the Zack Snyder Superman reinstallment ""Man of Steel"". Originally from the small town of Akureyri, Atli became established in the local"
"Scott Harper (composer) Scott Elder Harper (born Scott Gleckler; 22 December, 1952) is an American composer, arranger and musician for motion picture and television scores and orchestra, as well as a multi-instrumentalist, conductor, and session-player for pop music. With a background in popular music, Harper has composed theater pieces, oratorios, orchestral chamber works, and dynamic and diverse ensemble arrangements with various instrumental combinations for popular recording artists and film scores alike. His work includes conducting and album arrangements for Celine Dion, Cher, and Olivia Newton-John. He has performed on multiple original motion picture soundtracks such as ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.""(1983), ""Indiana"
"(""Voices of Liberation""), commissioned by Roger Wagner Chorale, when he died two years later at the age of 63. Stothart received 12 Academy Award nominations and won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Wizard of Oz. Academy Award Nominations: Herbert Stothart's movie scores include: Herbert Stothart died of cancer in Los Angeles, California at the age of 63. He is interred at Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery. Herbert Stothart Herbert P. Stothart (September 11, 1885February 1, 1949) was an American songwriter, arranger, conductor, and composer. He was also nominated for twelve Academy Awards, winning Best Original"
"He has also arranged and orchestrated music for over 80 films including ""Annie"" (2014), ""Foxcatcher"" (2014), """" (2013), ""Rock of Ages"" (2012), ""Dreamgirls"" (2007), ""North Country"" (2005) and ""Brokeback Mountain"" (2005). In 2010 he worked with Nigel Godrich on the score for ""Scott Pilgrim vs. The World"". In recent years, he has conducted at the Hollywood Bowl for Faith Hill, Death Cab for Cutie, Ray LaMontagne, Beck, Sheryl Crow, Willie Nelson and The xx. He collaborated with Muse for the performance of ""Survival"", the official song of the London Olympics. He also collaborated with Beck for the Lincoln Motor Company"