November 2013 report: best Cue Sheet ever!

The current issue of the Film Music Society’s quarterly journal The Cue Sheet is devoted to what many consider the most famous film music concert in history, “Music from Hollywood.” The concert was held at the Hollywood Bowl in September 1963.

BLOG: 50 years ago today: September 25, 1963

Sponsored by the Composers and Lyricists Guild of America, the program featured music conducted by composers Elmer Bernstein, John Green, Bernard Herrmann, Henry Mancini, Alfred Newman, Alex North, David Raksin, Nelson Riddle, Miklos Rozsa, Dimitri Tiomkin, and Franz Waxman.

Writer Jon Burlingame and editor Marilee Bradford are to be commended for the 64-page double-issue Cue Sheet that documents the concert from beginning to end and is filled with many rare photographs, including several of Tiomkin, from the collections of composers David Raksin and Alexander Courage, supplemented by excerpts from the script by John D.F. Black.

Burlingame interviewed Black and more than a dozen others who participated in or attended the concert. The copiously researched article draws from a multitude of published and unpublished sources.

If you join the Film Music Society today with a tax-deductible donation of $50 ($75 international), you will receive a year-long membership that includes a subscription to The Cue Sheet that includes this collectible issue. Fill out and return the membership form, or contact the FMS by e-mail at membership@filmmusicsociety.org or by phone at (310) 820-1909.

This issue , Vol. 28, No. 3/4—July/October 2013, was made possible through a generous grant from the Film Music Foundation.

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