Comments on: A Score of Appreciation for Golden Age Film Composer Franz Waxman

By: Evelyn Pearl

Evelyn Pearl — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:52:48 +0000

I was fortunate to have seen Cinema,s Exiles. I hope to see it again. I did not see the entire program. Franz Waxman was one of the greats. It was a privlege to see the films that he had written music for. John Waxman is allowing people to remember and learn about this very special man

By: charles gans

charles gans — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:46:42 +0000

I was so fortunate to have grown up in the age of those wonderful cinema composer and looked forward to the experience of both seeing the film and listening to those wonderful melodies which enhanced the feature. Thank you, gentlemen.

By: charles gans

charles gans — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:43:46 +0000

I was so fortunate to have grown up in the age of the great cinema composers and was very aware of how their music enhanced the performances.

By: Ryan Selberg

Ryan Selberg — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:06:02 +0000

I am a professional cellist, and have gotten the chance to play a great deal of music over the years. Several months ago, I had the privilege of doing three performances of film music with my orchestra, the Utah Symphony, the second half of the concerts being devoted to music by Franz Waxman. I got to meet John Waxman, as well as conductor Richard Kaufman, and thoroughly enjoyed the music as well as the personal side of the evenings. I love the music of the great Romantic and Post-Romantic era composers, and this includes the great composers of the Golden Age of Film, including Franz Waxman, Miklos Rozsa, Erich Korngold, and Alfred Newman. I have also gotten to play some of their music, both their film scores and their concert works, which I always enjoyed tremendously! I have always felt that some of the 20th Century’s greatest composers were those who chose to make a living primarily writing music for film. One of my favorite scores of Waxman’s is his Story of Ruth, which features some absolutely wonderful writing for my instrument. In meeting John, I learned that a short work for cello and piano/orchestra, in an arrangement by a wonderful English composer/arranger, Angela Morley, was available. Also, the opening of a cello concerto intended for the great French cellist, Pierre Fournier, is published. John Waxman has made these available to me, and I am thrilled to add these two beautiful works of Franz Waxman to my own repertoire. I am also grateful to learn more about Franz through this most interesting and insightful article, which gives me a greater understanding of the man behind all this wonderful music.

By: Richard Kaufman

Richard Kaufman — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:00:37 +0000

As a conductor, I have had the honor and priviledge of conducting many works by Franz Waxman. As a composer, he displayed an extraordinary gift for creating unforgetable melodies, harmoniess and rhythms. As a FILM composer, his dramatic sense was superb. If one recalls the various films for which he wrote the music, there is a remarkable array of themes, genres and styles that leaves no doubt that Franz Waxman was one of the most prolific composers to ever score a motion picture. Combine his amazing film scores with his magnificent and varied works written for the concert hall, and there can be no doubt that Franz Waxman was truly one of the greats. And hearing the enthusiastic reactions of audiences experiencing his music in concert even today makes it clear that the music of Franz Waxman is timeless. Thanks to John Waxman for the wonderfully insightful discussion of his father’s life and work, both personally and professionally.

By: KATHIE SCHREIBMAN

KATHIE SCHREIBMAN — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:18:46 +0000

Not only in films, but the entire American culture was influenced by the influx of scientists, lawyers doctors and a wide spectrum of European professionals, many of them Jewish, who fled Nazism.

By: charlotte lenkowsky

charlotte lenkowsky — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:35:05 +0000

Loved reading about Waxman. Credit and recognition was long past due. Thanks