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TCM’s ‘Great Composers’ Series Turns a Spotlight on the Movies’ Maestros
TCM is turning its focus during the month of June on spotlighting film history's great composers, as channel host and music buff Dave Karger explains.
Karger is serving as the host throughout June of TCM’s “Great Composers” film series, in which all the programming for the movies being shown each Monday has been done with the idea of spotlighting particular music giants. “We have John Williams, but we’re showing not a George Lucas or Steven Spielberg film but Richard Donner’s ‘Superman’ — obviously one of his most iconic scores, but one that felt like a little bit to me off the beaten path, if you will. The fact that the programmers didn’t always go with a composer’s best-known work is underscored — so to speak — by the fact that Desplat was represented last week by 2000’s “The Luzhin Defence,” and that the pick for Danny Elfman was the uncharacteristic “A Simple Plan.” But the series hasn’t eschewed the obvious, when it comes to recognizing Erich Wolfgang Korngold for “The Adventures of Robin Hood,” Bernard Herrmann for “Psycho” or Ennio Morricone for “The Mission.” A documentary about Morricone was also featured in the first week, as was a film about the trail-blazing Max Steiner.
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