"Manhattan (soundtrack) Manhattan is the original motion picture soundtrack to Woody Allen's 1979 American romantic comedy-drama film, ""Manhattan"", that uses music composed by George Gershwin. It was performed by the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra under Michael Tilson Thomas. The soundtrack works supremely well with the film and is equally effective without the film. It was nominated for Best Soundtrack in the 33rd British Academy Film Awards. Normally, Allen's finding and adding music to a film would be done during the editing process. However, in the case of this soundtrack, Allen knew beforehand exactly"
"Woody Allen's 1979 film ""Manhattan"" is composed entirely of Gershwin's compositions, including ""Rhapsody in Blue"", ""Love is Sweeping the Country"", and ""But Not for Me"", performed by both the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta and the Buffalo Philharmonic under Michael Tilson Thomas. The film begins with a monologue by Allen: ""He adored New York City ... To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin."" In 1993, two audio CDs featuring piano rolls recorded by Gershwin were issued by Nonesuch"
"what he wanted: ""Sometimes I know in advance. When I made ""Manhattan"", for example, I knew I was going to use this Gershwin music"". Fellow Brooklynite Gershwin's 1924 composition entitled ""Rhapsody in Blue"", also the opening song of the film, does seem perfectly apt for the film, as the idea for the song came to Gershwin on a train journey to Boston. Gershwin describes as ""a musical kaleidoscope of America, of our vast melting pot, our unduplicated national pep, our blues, our metropolitan madness."" It's that Metropolitan Madness that makes it work so well in Woody Allen's ""Manhattan"". Used in"
"to make movies.'"" All titles of the soundtrack were compositions by George Gershwin. They were performed by the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta and the Buffalo Philharmonic under Michael Tilson Thomas. A part of the first movement of Mozart's Symphony No. 40 is heard in a concert scene. ""Manhattan"" opened in 29 North American theaters on April 25, 1979. It grossed $485,734 ($16,749 per screen) in its opening weekend and earned $39.9 million in its entire run, making the film the 17th highest-grossing picture of the year. The film was shown out of competition at the 1979 Cannes Film"
"and Mehta's recordings of Stravinsky's ""Petrushka"". He is the pianist in the NYPO recording of Gershwin's ""Rhapsody in Blue"" (conducted by Mehta) used by Woody Allen in the opening of his film ""Manhattan"". He had a long collaboration with the American composer Elliott Carter, recording most of Carter's solo piano music and ensemble works with keyboard, including the ""Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano, With Two Chamber Orchestras"", the ""Cello Sonata"" and the ""Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello and Harpsichord"". He was one of the four American pianists who commissioned Carter's large-scale solo piano work ""Night Fantasies"" (1978–80), the others"
"the names of some cast members were withheld entirely; performances were not recorded. ""Manhattan"" inspired the song ""Remember Manhattan"" written by Richard Marx and Fee Waybill from Marx's debut album. Manhattan (film) Manhattan is a 1979 American romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen and produced by Charles H. Joffe. The screenplay was written by Allen and Marshall Brickman. Allen co-stars as a twice-divorced 42-year-old comedy writer who dates a 17-year-old girl (Mariel Hemingway) but falls in love with his best friend's (Michael Murphy) mistress (Diane Keaton). Meryl Streep and Anne Byrne also star. ""Manhattan"" was filmed in black-and-white and"
"Manhattan Serenade ""Manhattan Serenade"" was composed by Louis Alter in 1928, with lyrics by Howard Johnson. Alternate lyrics were written ca. 1942 by Harold Adamson. It was a hit record for swing era bandleaders Harry James (vocals by Helen Forrest) and Tommy Dorsey (vocals by Jo Stafford). The song may be most familiar as the title theme of ""My Man Godfrey"", and as the music orchestrating Corleone Family ""consigliere"" Tom Hagen's flight to Los Angeles in the 1972 classic ""The Godfather"". Scott Bradley based his score for ""Mouse in Manhattan"" (a Tom and Jerry cartoon released in 1945) on this"
"Manhattan (song) ""Manhattan"" is a popular song and part of the Great American Songbook. It has been performed by the Supremes, Lee Wiley, Oscar Peterson, Blossom Dearie, Tony Martin, Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme, among many others. It is often known as ""We'll Have Manhattan"" based on the opening line. The music was written by Richard Rodgers and the words by Lorenz Hart for the 1925 revue ""Garrick Gaieties"". It was introduced by Sterling Holloway (later the voice of the animated Winnie the Pooh) and June Cochran. The song describes, in several choruses, the simple delights of Manhattan"
"Kenneth Ascher Kenneth Lee ""Kenny"" Ascher (born October 26, 1944 in Washington, D.C.) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger who is active in jazz, rock, classical, and musical theater genres — in live venues, recording studios, and cinema production. With Paul Williams, he wrote the song ""Rainbow Connection"" for ""The Muppet Movie"". Both Williams and Ascher received Oscar nominations for the 1979 Academy Awards for Best Original Song (""Rainbow Connection"") and Best Original Score (""The Muppet Movie"" Soundtrack). The song was also nominated for the Golden Globes for ""Best Original Song"" that same year. Ascher's work through the"
"music composer Burt Bacharach, and Bacharach's frequent writing partner and then wife Carole Bayer Sager. A fourth writing credit went to Minnelli's ex-husband and Australian songwriter Peter Allen, also a frequent collaborator with Bayer Sager: the line ""When you get caught between the moon and New York City"" from the chorus was taken from an unreleased song Allen and Bayer Sager had previously written together. Allen came up with the line while his plane was in a holding pattern during a night arrival at John F. Kennedy International Airport. The song won the 1981 Academy Award for Best Original Song,"
"he found widespread critical acclaim for his romantic comedies ""Annie Hall"" (1977) and ""Manhattan"" (1979); he won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for the former. Allen is influenced by European art cinema and ventured into more dramatic territory, with ""Interiors"" (1978) and ""Another Woman"" (1988) being prime examples of this transition. Despite this, he continued to direct several comedies. In addition to works of fiction, Allen appeared as himself in many documentaries and other works of non-fiction, including """", ""Wild Man Blues"" and ""The Concert for New York City"". He has also been the subject of"
"artists as the Beau Hunks Saxophone Soctette, Earl Coleman, Billy Cotton, Joan Edwards, The Four Coins, Curtis Fuller, George Greeley, Andre Kostelanetz, Enoch Light, Mantovani, Lincoln Mayorga, Raymond Scott, Nat Shilkret, Dinah Shore, Morton Gould. Paul Whiteman and Caterina Valente (1964 - lyrics by Harold Adamson). Manhattan Serenade ""Manhattan Serenade"" was composed by Louis Alter in 1928, with lyrics by Howard Johnson. Alternate lyrics were written ca. 1942 by Harold Adamson. It was a hit record for swing era bandleaders Harry James (vocals by Helen Forrest) and Tommy Dorsey (vocals by Jo Stafford). The song may be most familiar as"
"of ""Embraceable You"" plays over the credits. According to Allen, the idea for ""Manhattan"" originated from his love of George Gershwin's music. He was listening to one of the composer's albums of overtures and thought, ""this would be a beautiful thing to make ... a movie in black and white ... a romantic movie"". Allen has said that ""Manhattan"" was ""like a mixture of what I was trying to do with ""Annie Hall"" and ""Interiors."""" He also said that his film deals with the problem of people trying to live a decent existence in an essentially junk-obsessed contemporary culture without"
"Artie Kane Artie Kane (born Aaron Cohen; April 14, 1929) is an American pianist, film score composer, and conductor with a career spanning over six decades. As a pianist in Hollywood studios, Kane worked with artists such as Frank Sinatra, Henry Mancini, John Williams, and Quincy Jones. He composed the music for over 250 television shows. Some of his works for television include ""Wonder Woman"", ""Vegas"", Hotel, ""Dynasty"", ""Matlock"", ""A Question of Guilt"", ""Man Against the Mob"". Kane also composed the film scores for five motion pictures including ""Looking for Mr. Goodbar"", ""Eyes of Laura Mars"", ""Night of the Juggler"","
"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"
"New York City to the tune of ""Rhapsody in Blue"" to be guests on ""Late Show with David Letterman"". ""The Simpsons"" music editor Chris Ledesma wrote on his blog that there was originally a discussion among the staff of the show about how the sequence would be scored. According to Ledesma, Jean ""wanted something hustly-bustly that represented New York City. Thoughts immediately turned to the music of George Gershwin. Woody Allen had used 'Rhapsody in Blue' to great effect in ""Manhattan"" and probably connected forever in people’s minds the black & white images of New York with the melodies of"
"does not deny that Allen wrote the part for her and about her. The film is ranked at No. 35 on the ""American Film Institute"" ""100 Best Movies"" and at No. 4 on the AFI list of ""100 Best Comedies."" ""Manhattan"" (1979), is a black-and-white film often viewed as an homage to New York City. As in many Allen films, the main protagonists are upper-middle class writers and academics. The lovehate opinion of cerebral persons found in ""Manhattan"" is characteristic of many of Allen's movies, including ""Crimes and Misdemeanors"" and ""Annie Hall."" ""Manhattan"" focuses on the complicated relationship between middle-aged"
"recording session that would never take place. Allen's use of Gershwin perfectly captures the life essence of the city. Gershwin is a quintessential American composer whose music is without hyperbole culturally defining for Americans - especially New Yorkers. The soundtrack contains a mix of Gershwin's more famous songs (Rhapsody in Blue, Someone to Watch Over Me and Embraceable You) and some lesser known ones. There is also variety in the instrumentation, with some scored for the full orchestra and some for smaller ensembles (Mine and Love is Here to Stay). The music of the film was performed by the New"
"with the score for Rupert Brooke's ""Wai Kiki,"" the ballet ""Sho-Jo, or — the Spirit of Wine, A Symbol of Happiness"", and his orchestral composition ""The Pleasure-Dome of Kubla Khan"". Besides Griffes, New York composers included Marion Bauer, Leo Ornstein, and Rubin Goldmark, all three of whom were either Jewish immigrants or the children of Jewish immigrants. The best-known New York composer — indeed, the best-known American classical composer of any kind — was George Gershwin. Gershwin was a songwriter with Tin Pan Alley and the Broadway theaters, and his works were strongly influenced by jazz, or rather the precursors"
"Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager and Christopher Cross, for the 1981 film ""Arthur"". The song reached number one in the US and the songwriters won an Academy Award for Best Song. One lyric for the song, ""If you get caught between the moon and New York City"", was adapted from an earlier song that he and Bayer Sager co-wrote. Allen and Bayer Sager also co-wrote ""You and Me (We Wanted It All)"", which was recorded by Frank Sinatra. A video of Sinatra singing the song at Carnegie Hall was included as part of the """" package, released in late 2009."
"include Lou Harrison, John Cage, La Monte Young, Christopher Rouse, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, John Adams, Anders Hillborg, Pierre Boulez, Harrison Birtwistle, Virgil Thomson, Helmut Lachenmann, and Kaija Saariaho. John Cage dedicated his ""Freeman Etudes"" to her (although she did not commission them), Lou Harrison dedicated his ""Serenade for Betty Freeman and Franco Assetto"" to Freeman and her husband, Steve Reich dedicated ""Variations for Winds, Strings, and Keyboards"" (1979) and ""Vermont Counterpoint"" (1982) to her, and John Adams's opera ""Nixon in China"" (1985–87) was dedicated to her. The American gamelan Si Betty, built by Harrison and William Colvig in 1979,"
"Billy May Edward William May Jr. (November 10, 1916 – January 22, 2004) was an American composer, arranger and trumpeter. He composed film and television music for ""The Green Hornet"" (1966), ""The Mod Squad"" (1968), ""Batman"" (with ""Batgirl"" theme, 1967), and ""Naked City"" (1960). He collaborated on films such as ""Pennies from Heaven"" (1981), and orchestrated ""Cocoon"", and """", among others. May also wrote arrangements for many top singers, including Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Anita O'Day, Peggy Lee, Vic Damone, Bobby Darin, Johnny Mercer, Ella Fitzgerald, Jack Jones, Bing Crosby, Sandler and Young, Nancy Wilson, Rosemary Clooney, The Andrews"
"John Adams (composer) John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer, clarinetist, and conductor of classical music and opera, with strong roots in minimalism. His works include ""Nixon in China"" (1987), ""Harmonielehre"" (1985), ""Short Ride in a Fast Machine"" (1986), ""On the Transmigration of Souls"" (2002), a choral piece commemorating the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2003), and ""Shaker Loops"" (1978), a minimalist four-movement work for strings. His operas include ""Nixon in China"" (1987), which recounts Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China, ""Doctor Atomic"" (2005),"
"John Williams John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. With a career spanning over six decades, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scores in cinematic history, including those of the ""Star Wars"" series, ""Jaws"", ""Close Encounters of the Third Kind"", ""Superman"", ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"", the ""Indiana Jones"" series, the first two ""Home Alone"" films, ""Hook"", the first two ""Jurassic Park"" films, ""Schindler's List"", and the first three ""Harry Potter"" films. Williams has been associated with director Steven Spielberg since 1974, composing music for all but three"
"Omaha. The conductor is respected for his work on new operas: he led the world premières of Leonard Bernstein's ""A Quiet Place"" (1983), John Adams's ""Nixon in China"" (1987), and Michael Tippett's ""New Year"" (1989). DeMain also conducted the United States première of Philip Glass's ""Akhnaten"". His 1976 recording of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess for RCA Victor won a “Grammy” and remains a benchmark interpretation of this American masterpiece. John DeMain John DeMain is an American conductor. In 2014 he completed his 20th season as music director of the Madison Symphony Orchestra in Wisconsin. He is also artistic director of"
"public. ""New York, New York"" ""[sic]"" represents one of many high points in his career... In Rodgers & Hart's ""Manhattan"", Russell has the soloists playing over the orchestra's vamp, while he also creates an imaginative ""East Side Medley"" combining the standards ""Autumn in New York"" and ""How About You."" His original material is just as striking as his arrangements"". New York, N.Y. (album) New York, N.Y. is an album by George Russell, originally released on Decca in 1959. The album contains tracks conducted and arranged by Russell performed by Art Farmer, Doc Severinsen, Ernie Royal, Bob Brookmeyer, Frank Rehak, Tom"
"""French Postcards"" (1979), ""American Pop"" (1981), ""The Day the Loving Stopped"" (1981), ""The Beastmaster"" (1982), ""Mr. Mom"" (1983), ""Splash"" (1984), ""Micki & Maude"" (1984), ""Transylvania 6-5000"" (1985), ""The Men's Club"" (1986), ""A Tiger's Tale"" (1987), ""Big Business"" (1988), ""Old Gringo"" (1989), """" (1998) """" (2000), ""Puerto Vallarta Squeeze"" (2004) and ""Brothers at War"" (2009). He composed for several television series, including ""Sara"", ""East of Eden"", ""I'll Take Manhattan"", ""Atomic Train"", ""The Mists of Avalon"", ""American Family"", ""The Brooke Ellison Story"", ""Moonlighting"", and ""Beauty and the Beast"". Holdridge has performed and recorded in several concerts, including ""The Golden Land"", the ""Jefferson"
"Manhattan (Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts album) Manhattan is an album by New York City-based anti-folk musician Jeffrey Lewis and his backing band, which is billed as Los Bolts. It was produced by Lewis himself and New York producer Brian Speaker and mixed by John Agnello. It was released on October 30, 2015 on Rough Trade Records. ""Manhattan"" received generally favorable reviews from critics. For example, Paul Simpson of AllMusic gave the album 4 out of 5 stars. In his review, Simpson said that the album ""focuses on tales relating to [Lewis'] home borough, resulting in some of his most"
"in Detroit until he was in his nineties. He died at Henry Ford Hospital of complications from pneumonia, at the age of 96. Johnny Allen (arranger) Johnny Allen (September 20, 1917 – January 29, 2014) was an American R&B pianist and arranger who worked for both Motown and Stax Records and received a Grammy Award with Isaac Hayes for his arrangement of the ""Theme from Shaft"". He was born in Uchee, Alabama, and grew up in Chicago before moving to Detroit in 1936. A self-taught pianist, his chief influence was Earl Hines. From the early 1940s, he worked as musical"
"New York, New York (1977 film) New York, New York is a 1977 American musical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Mardik Martin and Earl Mac Rauch based on a story by Rauch. It is a musical tribute, featuring new songs by John Kander and Fred Ebb as well as jazz standards, to Scorsese's home town of New York City, and stars Robert De Niro and Liza Minnelli as a pair of musicians and lovers. The story is ""about a jazz saxophonist (De Niro) and a pop singer (Minnelli) who fall madly in love and marry""; however,"
"Manhattan. Saul Bass created the opening animated title sequence for the film, his only title sequence for a Wilder movie. The original 1955 review in ""Variety"" was largely positive. Though Hollywood production codes prohibited writer-director Billy Wilder from filming a comedy where adultery takes place, the review expressed disappointment that Sherman remains chaste. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 87% based on 30 reviews and an average score of 7.2/10. In the 1970s Wilder called the movie ""a nothing picture because the picture should be done today without censorship... Unless the husband, left alone"
"Michael Daugherty Michael Kevin Daugherty (born April 28, 1954) is an American composer, pianist, and teacher. He is influenced by popular culture, Romanticism, and Postmodernism, and is one of the most widely performed American concert music composers of his generation. Daugherty's notable works include his Superman comic book-inspired ""Metropolis Symphony"" for Orchestra (1988–93), ""Dead Elvis"" for Solo Bassoon and Chamber Ensemble (1993), ""Jackie O"" (1997), ""Niagara Falls"" for Symphonic Band (1997), ""UFO"" for Solo Percussion and Orchestra (1999) and for Symphonic Band (2000), ""Bells for Stokowski"" from ""Philadelphia Stories"" for Orchestra (2001) and for Symphonic Band (2002), ""Fire and Blood"""
"composers included the Massachusetts native and conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, known for his works ""Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs"", ""Serenade for Solo Violin, Strings, Harp and Percussion"", ""Chichester Psalms"", and the musicals ""On the Town"" and ""West Side Story"". Another major composer was Elliott Carter, whom John Warthen Struble claimed would likely be remembered as ""the most significant of the mid-20th century... composers [because he] reconceived and restructured the fundamental language of Western art music in evolving his powerful personal style... his music has earned immense respect from colleagues of virtually every esthetic stripe, as well as three generations of"