The very opening of Erich Korngold’s violin concerto demonstrates why he was the premier film composer of the silver screen’s Golden Age. The solo violin’s upward-arcing first phrase climaxes, and ...

Seattle Symphony The very opening of Erich Korngold’s violin concerto demonstrates why he was the premier film composer of the silver screen’s Golden Age. The solo violin’s upward-arcing first phrase ...

The lone symphony by a composer whose film music helped define the Hollywood sound is now the star of a landmark recording. The Korngold Symphony (Supertrain Records) showcases two historically ...

Ronald reagan considered “Kings Row” (1942) his best work as an actor. Beyond its presidential cast, the small-town melodrama has another claim to fame. Moviegoers may find its lavish soundtrack ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Opera Circle has never been one to shy away from challenges. But its latest project may be its most ambitious effort to date. In staging Erich Korngold's "Die Tote Stadt" ("The Dead ...

When Erich Wolfgang Korngold died in 1957, six months after his 60th birthday, he left a legacy of fine music, although to purists it must have seemed that his career had followed a sad trajectory. It ...

From left: Sean Hayes and Emily Bergl rehearsing for Good Night, Oscar, currently playing at the Goodman Theatre. Fans of many of the great Hollywood movies of the late 1930s and '40s might be ...

It has all the earmarks of a great movie score: sweeping soundscapes, stirring melodies. But it's actually a concert hall violin concerto by a composer whose day job was writing movie music. Violinist ...