FILM MUSIC NOTES: October 1941 to June 1943
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FILM MUSIC NOTES – OCTOBER 1941 – VOLUME 1, NUMBER 1
[7 pages; Note: number of pages typically includes cover; page one is first page after the cover.]
- Foreword
- Commendations by Noted Musicians [on the Importance of Music in Films]
- Things a Motion Picture Composer Has To Think About (Roy Webb)
- Review of Pictures Released Since May 1st, 1941 and Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: Blood and Sand (Alfred Newman & Vincente Gomez); Blossoms in the Dust (Herbert Stothart); Citizen Kane (Bernard Herrmann) [with comment by Herrmann]; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Franz Waxman); Father Takes a Wife (Roy Webb); It Started with Eve (Charles Previn, mus. dir.); Ladies in Retirement (Ernest Toch); The Little Foxes (Meredith Willson); Lydia (Miklós Rózsa); New Wine (Franz Schubert, arr. Rózsa); Sergeant York (Max Steiner); Smilin' Through (Stothart); Unfinished Business (Waxman); When Ladies Meet (Bronislau Kaper). (Reviews by Grace Widney Mabee & Adelaide Gescheidt)
FILM MUSIC NOTES – NOVEMBER 1941 – VOLUME 1, NUMBER 2
[8 pages]
- Foreword
- Comments and News on Film Music
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: Birth of the Blues (Robert Emmett Dolan, composer, music supervisor/director; Victor Schertzinger, mus. dir. [?]); Blues in the Night (Heinz Roemheld); The Chocolate Soldier (Oscar Straus, music; Stothart & Kaper, mus. dirs.); Dumbo (Oliver Wallace & Frank Churchill, music; Ned Washington, lyrics); How Green Was My Valley (Newman, mus. dir.); Lady Be Good (Ira & George Gershwin, music; Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, Roger Edens, Arthur Freed, additional songs); One Foot in Heaven (Leo F. Forbstein, mus. dir; Steiner, music); Sundown (Rózsa); The Maltese Falcon (Adolph Deutsch); This Woman is Mine (Previn, mus. dir; Richard Hageman, music [with comment by Hageman]). (Reviews by Grace Widney Mabee & Adelaide Gescheidt)
- Records and Publications of Film Music Available: New Wine; The Chocolate Soldier; Birth of the Blues; Lydia Waltz.
FILM MUSIC NOTES – DECEMBER 1941 – VOLUME 1, NUMBER 3
[7 pages]
- Foreword
- Comments and Open Forum
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: Kings Row; Louisiana Purchase; Swamp Water; Road to Happiness; Suspicion [with comment by Waxman]; The Ballet Russe; At the Stroke of Twelve; The Tell Tale Heart. (Grace Widney Mabee; Adelaide Gescheidt)
- Cartoons: Dance of the Weed; The Night Before Christmas. {Bradley}
- Increasing Interest in Short Subjects
- Looking Forward
FILM MUSIC NOTES – JANUARY 1942 – VOLUME 1, NUMBER 4
[7 pages]
- Foreword: "When Nations Can Sing Together They Will Not War With One Another"
- Comments and Open Forum
- Looking Forward
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: Babes on Broadway; Ball of Fire; Corsican Brothers; Kathleen; H.M. Pulham, Esq.; Playmates; Remember The Day; They Died With Their Boots On; Shanghai Gesture; The Vanishing Virginian; Weekend for Three. (Grace Widney Mabee; Adelaide Gescheidt)
- The Orchestrator and His Importance to the Photoplay Score (Chauncey Haines, Jr.)
- The American Scene: Today and Yesterday
FILM MUSIC NOTES – FEBRUARY 1942 – VOLUME 1, NUMBER 5
[7 pages]
- Foreword
- Comments and Open Forum
- Looking Forward
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: The Man Who Came To Dinner; The Light of India; Valley of the Sun; Joe Smith, American; Young America; Shanghai Gesture; Mr. Bug Goes to Town; The New Spirit; Joan of Paris [with comment by Roy Webb]. (Grace Widney Mabee; Adelaide Gescheidt)
- Cartoon Music of the Future ({Scott Bradley})
- Puppetoons
- Composers of Film Music
FILM MUSIC NOTES – MARCH 1942 – VOLUME 1, NUMBER 6
[7 pages]
- Foreword
- Comments: How to Listen to Film Music
- News Items of Interest
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: Born to Sing; Captains of the Clouds; The Invaders; Mister V; The Remarkable Andrew; Sullivan's Travels; To Be or Not To Be; Fantasia; Reap the Wild Wind [with lengthy discussion]; Woman of the Year; List of Family Films. (Grace Widney Mabee; Adelaide Gescheidt)
- The California Junior Symphony (Naomi Reynolds)
FILM MUSIC NOTES – APRIL 1942 – VOLUME 1, NUMBER 7
[7 pages]
- Foreword
- Comments; Open Forum; News Items of Interest
- The Auroratone
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: Jungle Book. (Vernon Leftwich, review and appreciation)
- Scoring Jungle Book ({Miklós Rózsa})
- Reviews of Current Pictures, continued: Kings Row [with further discussion of film which was in December 1941 issue]; Male Animal; The Bashful Bachelor; The Adventures of Martin Eden; The Remarakble Mr. Kipps. (Grace Widney Mabee; Adelaide Gescheidt)
- Tales of Manhattan ({Sol Kaplan})
- Musicians in Hollywood (Eleanore Rogers)
FILM MUSIC NOTES – MAY-JUNE 1942 – VOLUME 1, NUMBER 8
[9 pages]
- Foreword
- Comments and News Items of Interest [Rózsa gives a lecture on "The Vicissitudes of Motion Picture Music"]
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: Don Cossack Chorus [Short]; Spanish Fiesta [Short]; The Gold Rush; In This Our Life; My Gal Sal; Rio Rita; Ship Ahoy; The Tuttles of Tahiti. (Grace Widney Mabee; Adelaide Gescheidt)
- Summer Releases: George Pal Puppetoons; Walt Disney's Film Survey Trip Through South America; RKO Radio Studios: Syncopation; The Magnificent Ambersons; Journey Into Fear; Paramount: Holiday Inn; The Great Man's Lady; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: For Me and My Gal; I Married an Angel; Seven Sisters; Scott Bradley cartoons; Warner Bros.: The Gay Sisters; The Constant Nymph; Yankee Doodle Dandy.
- Bambi {Frank Churchill; Edward Plumb}
- Russian Music (Constance Purdy)
- Some Interesting Data on the Activities of Film Musicians Outside of the Studios
FILM MUSIC NOTES – OCTOBER 1942 – VOLUME 2, NUMBER 1
[Most issues below have 8 pages.]
- Foreword
- News Items; Comments
- The Importance of Motion Picture Music (Sigmund Spaeth)
- Music in Government Films (Gail Kubik)
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: The World at War; March of Time; Women in Defense; Winning Your Wings; Wings and the Woman; Wake Island; Wings for the Eagle; Journey Into Fear; Eagle Squadron; Mrs. Miniver; Suicide Squadron; Desperate Journey; Pride of the Yankees; The Pied Piper; Seven Sweeathearts; Spring Song. [Plus other films] (Grace Widney Mabee; Adelaide Gescheidt)
FILM MUSIC NOTES – NOVEMBER 1942 – VOLUME 2, NUMBER 2
- Foreword
- News Items; Looking Forward
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: Battle of Midway; Across the Pacific; The Moon and Sixpence; The Major and the Minor; Now, Voyager; My Sister Eileen; For Me and My Gal; Get Hep to Love; Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch; George Washington Slept Here. (Grace Widney Mabee; Adelaide Gescheidt)
- Musical Shorts: The Swan; Music of the Masters
- Notes on Jacaré ({Miklós Rózsa})
- Jacaré (Killer of the Amazon) (Sigmund Spaeth)
- Special Article (Constantin Bakaleinikoff, Director of Music Department of RKO-Radio)
- Additional Reviews: Flying Tigers; Moscow Strikes Back. Short reviews of other movies: Henry Aldrich, Editor; Street of Chance; Girl Trouble; The Hard Way; Cairo; Springtime in the Rockies. (Mabee and Gescheidt?)
- Shorts
FILM MUSIC NOTES – DECEMBER 1942 – VOLUME 2, NUMBER 3
- Foreword
- News Items; Commendations
- Discussion of Commandos Strike at Dawn by Louis Gruenberg, with review by Harry Mines (Los Angeles Daily News)
- An Appeal to the Educators of Music in Schools, Colleges, Universities (Mabee, Purdy)
- Interesting Facts Regarding the Use of Music in Pictures: Anchors Aweigh; Keep 'Em Rolling; The Caissons Go Rolling Along; Tanks. (Gail Kubik)
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: The Avengers; The Black Swan; Cat People; China Girl; Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant; I Married A Witch; Journey for Margaret; Life Begins at 8:30; My Heart Belongs to Daddy; Once Upon a Honeymoon; One of Our Aircraft is Missing; The Palm Beach Story; Pittsburgh; Random Harvest; Reunion; Road to Morocco; Seven Miles from Alcatraz; Silver Queen; Strictly in the Groove; The Undying Monster; Whistling in Dixie. (Grace Widney Mabee; Adelaide Gescheidt)
- Victory Shorts (includes "Japanese Relocation: Shows the standard America is setting for the rest of the world in treatment of people with loyalties to enemy nations.") [!!!]
FILM MUSIC NOTES – JANUARY 1943 – VOLUME 2, NUMBER 4
- Foreword
- News Items; Commendations (includes A Note on the Music of In Which We Serve by Sigmund Spaeth)
- Important Films Released by Office of War Information: Bomber; Lake Carrier; Men and Ships; Ring of Steel; Salvage; Manpower; Colleges at War; Dover. (Gail Kubik)
- The Music Scoring of The March of Time ({Jack Schaindlin})
- Max Steiner Comments on Film Scoring
- Music of the Americas (Charles Wolcott)
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: Saludos Amigos; Arabian Nights; Casablanca; Commandos Strike at Dawn; The Powers Girl; Keeper of the Flame; Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon; Stand by for Action; Tennessee Johnson; They Got Me Covered; When Johnny Comes Marching Home; You Were Never Lovelier. Short Subjects: Education For Death; Der Fuehrer's Face; We Are The Marines. (Grace Widney Mabee; Adelaide Gescheidt)
FILM MUSIC NOTES – FEBRUARY 1943 – VOLUME 2, NUMBER 5
[This issue has 8 pages, but one page is duplicated.]
- Foreword
- News Items; Commendations
- Screen Music Assumes New Stature (Nat W. Finston, Head of Music Dept., M-G-M)
- Notes from Mr. Louis Lipstone, Musical Director of Paramount (Interviewed by Margery Hamilton)
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: Hitler's Children; The Meanest Man in the World; Shadow of a Doubt; Chetniks; Happy Go Lucky; Immortal Sergeant; Three Hearts for Julia; Star Spangled Rhythm; Air Force; The Amazing Mrs. Holliday. (Grace Widney Mabee; Adelaide Gescheidt)
- Auroratone Motion Picture Productions
FILM MUSIC NOTES – MARCH 1943 – VOLUME 2, NUMBER 6
- Foreword
- News Items
- Procedure of Preparing a Musical Score for A Picture (Alfred Newman)
- Notes on the Background and Previous Work of Alfred Newman
- Jose Iturbi Comes to the Screen
- Shostakovich: Film Composer (Jay Leyda)
- Albert Coates to Help Score "Russia"
- Information on Films Released by the Office of War Information: Paratroops; Farmers at War; Our Lady of Paris. (Gail Kubik)
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: A Stranger in Town; Cabin in the Sky; Flight for Freedom; Something to Shout About; Somewhere in France. (Grace Widney Mabee; Adelaide Gescheidt)
- Academy Award Winners; Academy Awards Music Candidates; Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture; Best Song
FILM MUSIC NOTES – APRIL 1943 – VOLUME 2, NUMBER 7
- Foreword
- News Items; Commendations
- A Visit to the Music Recording Stage at Warner Bros. (Margery Morrison)
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: Assignment in Brittany; The Desperadoes; Edge of Darkness [With comment by Sigmund Spaeth]; Harrigan's Kid; Hello, Frisco, Hello; Hit Parade of 1943; The Human Comedy; The Moon is Down; This Land is Mine; One Day of War in Russia; Plan for Destruction. (Grace Widney Mabee; Adelaide Gescheidt)
- Films Recommended from a Musical Point of View by the Hollywood and New York Preview Committees
FILM MUSIC NOTES – MAY 1943 – VOLUME 2, NUMBER 8
- Foreword
- News Items; Comments
- National Association for American Composers and Conductors Shows a Practical Interest in Film Music
- A Note on the Seventh Symphony of Shostakovich (Sigmund Spaeth)
- Meremblum's California Junior Symphony Orchestra (Naomi Reynolds)
- Music in Universal Pictures (Roger Jones)
- Motion Picture Music in the East (Jack Shaindlin)
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: Spitfire; The More the Merrier; It Ain't Hay; Cowboy from Manhattan; The Next of Kin; Reveille with Beverly; Corregidor; They Came to Blow Up America; Above Suspicion; Heavenly Music; Mission to Moscow; Desert Victory; Presenting Lily Mars. (Grace Widney Mabee; Adelaide Gescheidt)
FILM MUSIC NOTES – JUNE 1943 – VOLUME 2, NUMBER 9
[This issue has 11 pages.]
- Foreword
- News Items; Comments
- Notes from a Talk Given to the Music Educators' Conference, Western Division, at Santa Barbara (Constance Purdy)
- An Afternoon in the Home of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (Margery Morrison)
- Interesting Pictures in Production
- Adolph Deutsch Comments on His Score for Action in the North Atlantic
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: Action in the North Atlantic; Bataan; Bombardier; Coney Island; Dr. Gillespie's Critical Case; Du Barry Was a Lady; Five Graves to Cairo; The Leopard Man; Mr. Big; Mr. Lucky; The Ox-Bow Incident; Pilot #5; Squadron Leader X; Prelude to War; Stage Door Canteen; Stormy Weather. (Grace Widney Mabee; Adelaide Gescheidt)
- Short Subjects Music
- A Word to the Readers of Film Music Notes (Alice E. Field)
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