FILM MUSIC NOTES: September 1945 to May 1946

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FILM MUSIC NOTES – SEPTEMBER 1945 –VOLUME 5, NUMBER 1

• Foreword
• A Message from the National Film Music Council
• News Items; Comments [includes a long section about Hollywood Bowl Concert conducted by Stokowski and Johnny Green]
• Criticism from London (John Huntley)
  Music for All, continued [something missing here?]
• Afterthoughts (Sigmund Spaeth)
• Ann Ronell, George Gershwin and Richard Rodgers (Sigmund Spaeth)
• Film Music Excerpts (Margery Morrison)
• Reviews of Current Motion Pictures from the Viewpoint of Music Interest: Anchors Aweigh; A Thousand and One Nights; State Fair; Over 21; Love Letters; Johnny Angel; Bewitched; Mildred Pierce; The Way Ahead; Captain Kidd; A Bell for Adano; Her Highness and the Bellboy; And then There Were None; Paris Underground; G.I. Joe; The Lost Weekend; You Came Along; Our Vines Have Tender Grapes; Weekend at the Waldorf
• The New Music of Motion Pictures (Franz Waxman)
• Theme from Pride of the Marines* {Franz Waxman}

FILM MUSIC NOTES – OCTOBER 1945 –VOLUME 5, NUMBER 2

• Foreword
• A Message From the National Film Music Council
• Letters From Our Readers
• News Items; Comments
• Letters to Mr. Dimitri Tiomkin
• Getting the Gen: A Course in Film Music (John Huntley)
• Sound and the Amateur (John W. Loomer, Los Angeles 8mm Club)
• A Music Library in a Motion Picture Studio (Monachus Minor) [From The Score]
• Reviews of Current Motion Pictures from the Viewpoint of Music Interest: Tomorrow is Forever; River Gang; The Dolly Sisters; That Night With You; The Spanish Main; Hold That Blonde; The Enchanted Forest; The True Glory; Colonel Effingham's Raid; Man Alive; Pardon My Past; Men In Her Diary; The House on 92nd Street; Shady Lady; First Yank Into Tokyo; Love, Honor and Goodbye; People Are Funny; Sunbonnet Sue; The Spider; Wanderer of the Wasteland
• Themes from The Lost Weekend* {Miklós Rózsa}
• An Outline of University Training for Musicians in Motion Picture Work (Miklós Rózsa)
• Biographical Notes on Miklós Rózsa

FILM MUSIC NOTES – NOVEMBER 1945 –VOLUME 5, NUMBER 3

• A Message From the National Film Music Council (Grace Widney Mabee)
• News Items; Comments
• Letters From Our Readers
• Comments by Our Reviewers on Mr. Gold's Score
• A University Course in Dramatic Music, Etc. (Walter E. Rubsamen)
• Afterthoughts (Sigmund Spaeth)
• Film Music Notes Portfolios
• Music Hath Charms (Alice Evans Field)
• Reviews of Current Motion Pictures From the Viewpoint of Musical Intereset: Kitty; The Stork Club; Yolanda and the Thief; Fallen Angel; Allotment Wives; My Name is Julia Ross; The Girl of the Limberlost; Senorita From the West; Danny Boy, PRC; This Love of Ours; Dakota
• My First Movie Score (Ernest Gold)
• Biography of Ernest Gold
• The End from The Girl of the Limberlost* {Ernest Gold}
• Notes on Louis Applebaum
• Church Battle from The Story of G.I. Joe* {Louis Applebaum}

FILM MUSIC NOTES – DECEMBER 1945 –VOLUME 5, NUMBER 4

• Foreword
• A Message from the National Film Music Council (Grace Widney Mabee)
• Letters to the National Film Music Council
• New Items; Comments
• Letters From Our Readers
• From "United in Music" (Merritt E. Tompkins, The Hollywood Reporter)
• Music ... Not Catch Phrases (Meredith Willson, Pacific Coast Musician)
• Three Leading Articles
• Music in Hollywood (Lionel Barrymore, The Hollywood Reporter)
• Saratoga Trunk {Max Steiner} (Lenard Quinto)
• Reviews of Current Motion Pictures from the Viewpoint of Music Interest: Cornered; What Next, Corporal Hargrove?; Danger Signal; The Daltons Ride Again; Spellbound; They Were Expendable; A Game of Death; Saratoga Trunk; Vacation From Marriage; Pursuit to Algiers; Confidential Agent; Too Young To Know; Club Havana; Detour; Kiss and Tell; She Went To The Races; Follow That Woman; Getting Gertie's Garter; Miss Susie Slagle's; The Bells of St. Mary's; A Letter for Evie.
• Notes on Lennie Hayton
• Excerpts from Yolanda and the Thief {Lennie Hayton}

FILM MUSIC NOTES – JANUARY 1946 –VOLUME 5, NUMBER 5

• Foreword
• A Message From the National Film Music Council (Grace Widney Mabee)
• News Items; Comments
• Notes from England (John Huntley)
• Picture Music at the Concerthall (Ernest Gold)
• Behind the Musical Scenes of The Shocking Miss Pilgrim {David Raksin, uncredited} (Constance Purdy)
• Film Music for Music Appreciation (Richard N. Whitfield)
• Highs and Lows in Recent Scores: Masquerade in Mexico; Saratoga Trunk; Spellbound; The Bells of St. Mary's; A Walk in the Sun; The Spiral Staircase; Scarlet Street; The Last Chance; Leave Her to Heaven; Frontier Gal; My Reputation (Celeste Hautbois)
• Reviews of Current Motion Pictures from the Viewpoint of Music Interest: Profile Gal; Appointment in Tokyo; An Angel Comes to Brooklyn; She Wouldn't Say Yes; Masquerade in Mexico; Snafu; Adventure; Leave Her to Heaven; The Spiral Staircase; Doll Face; Scarlet Street; Up Goes Maisie; The Last Chance.
• Notes on Robert Emmett Dolan
• Excerpts from Father O'Malley* and Patsy's Family* by {Robert Emmett Dolan}

FILM MUSIC NOTES – FEBRUARY 1946 –VOLUME 5, NUMBER 6

• Editorial
• A Message From the National Film Music Council (Grace Widney Mabee)
• News Items; Comments
• Excerpt from "The Bandit of Sherwood Forest"* {Hugo Friedhofer|
• News Items in Brief (John Huntley)
• The Things They Say (British film music composers, directors and writers comment on their specialized branch of the film industry) (Compiled by John Huntley)
• Highs and Lows in Recent Scores: I Ring Doorbells; The United States; Shock; The Virginian; The Hoodlum Saint; Idea Girl; The Seventh Veil. (Celeste Hautbois)
• Excerpts from Leave Her to Heaven* {Alfred Newman}
• The Film Sense [book review of book by Sergei Eisenstein] (Margery Morisson)
• The Place of Electronic Music in Films (Ivor Darreg)
• 18th Annual Awards: Music Nominations
• Reviews of Current Motion Pictures from the Viewpoint of Music Interest: A Walk in the Sun; You Can't Do Without Love; The Road to Utopia; Whistle Stop; Shock; The Harvey Girls; Tars and Spars; Breakfast in Hollywood; The Diary of a Chambermaid; The United States; Idea Girl; The Virginian; Swing Parade of 1946; The Hoodlum Saint; Sentimental Journe; Behind Green Lights; The Well Groomed Bride; The Blue Dahlia; Bad Bascomb; Terror at Night; Portrait of Maria; The Sailor Takes a Wife; My Reputation.

FILM MUSIC NOTES – MARCH 1946 –VOLUME 5, NUMBER 7

• Foreword
• A Message from the National Film Music Council (Grace Widney Mabee)
• News Items; Comments
• Highs and Lows in Recent Scores>: Dragonwyck; Cinderella Jones; Deadline at Dawn; Our Hearts Were Growing Up; Meet Me on Broadway; The Strange Love of Martha Ivers; Tangier; The Madonna's Secret; The Bandit of Sherwood Forest; Young Widow. (Celeste Hautbois)
• Music's Film Value Recognized (Margaret Harford, Academy Awards Edition, Hollywood Citizen-News)
• Three Strangers {Adolph Deutsch} [From The Hollywood Quarterly]
• Excerpts from Diary of a Chambermaid* {Michel Michelet}
• Reviews of Current Motion Pictures from the Viewpoint of Music Interest: Deadline at Dawn; The Seventh Veil; Dragonwyck; The Postman Always Rings Twice; A Yank in London; Two Sisters from Boston; To Each His Own; The Madonna's Secret; Young Widow; The Strange Love of Martha Ivers; Smooth as Silk, The Bandit of Sherwood Forest; Our Hearts Were Growing Up.

FILM MUSIC NOTES – APRIL 1946 –VOLUME 5, NUMBER 8

• Foreword: Greetings and Salutations (Alice Evans Field)
• Nominations for Film Music Notes Citation and Award
• Newsreel Music (John Huntley)
• Highs and Lows in Recent Scores: The Kid from Brooklyn; Devotion; Specter of the Rose; Heartbeat; Gilda; Blonde Alibi. (Celeste Hautbois)
• Fitting a Film to Music (Harold Rawlinson) [from American Cinematographer]
• Contemporary Music in Films (Walter Rubsamen) [Arts and Architecture, July 1945]
• Some Predictions for the Future of Film Music (Nathaniel Shilkret) [Music Publisher's Journal, Jan.-Feb. 1946]
• The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures
• Biennial Meeting of the Music Educators National Conference
• Three Strangers ({Adolph Deutsch}) [From The Hollywood Quarterly]
• Reviews of Current Motion Pictures from the Viewpoint of Music Interest: Specter of the Rose; So Goes My Love; Gilda; The Bride Wore Boots; Heartbeat; The Kid From Brooklyn; Devotion; Suspense; Easy to Wed.
• Excerpts from Deadline at Dawn* {Hanns Eisler} [something is missing here]

FILM MUSIC NOTES – MAY 1946 –VOLUME 5, NUMBER 9

• Film Music Notes Awards
• Letters From Our Readers
• A Message From the National Film Music Council (Grace Widney Mabee)
• News Items; Comments
• Movie Audiences: Musically Mature or Adolescent? (Gail Kubik)
• Musical Highlights of the Last Year (Sigmund Spaeth)
• Afterthoughts (Sigmund Spaeth)
• Film Reviews from England: The Captive Heart; Caravan; Symphonie Fantastique.
• Are You a Film Music Critic? (Capt. Lenard Quinto*) [From National Board of Review]
• Highs and Lows in Recent Scores: Suspense; Make Mine Music; Night in Paradise; Black Market Babies; Ziegfeld Follies; The Falcon's Alibi; Badman's Territory; Street of Shadows; Somewhere in the Night. (Celeste Hautbois)
• Scoring for the Film (Jack Shaindlin) [from Film News]
• Scoring Dramtic Pictures at M-G-M (Alice Evans Field)
• A Yankee Impression of Recent British Pictures (Margery Morrison)
• Reviews of Current Motion Pictures from the Viewpoint of Music Interest: Ziegfeld Follies; The Falcon's Alibi; Her Kind of Man; Badman's Territory; Night in Paradise; The Wife of Monte Cristo; Gay Blades; Do You Love Me; Make Mine Music; Partners in Time; Boys' Ranch; The Dark Corner; The Green Years
• Richard Addinsell, British Film Music Composer
• Excerpt from Blithe Spirit {Richard Addinsell}

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OTHER MATERIAL:

Volume 5 of the magazine began in September 1945 and ends in May, 1946, unlike the final years of the previous two volumes, which began in October 1943 and October 1944 and ended in June 1944 and June 1945 respectively. All three of these Volumes contained 9 issues each.

The end of the table of contents on the first page of the May 1946 issue shows an entry for a biography of Hugo Friedhofer and an excerpt from The Bandit of Sherwood Forest by Friedhofer, neither of which are included in this last issue of Volume 5 at the Internet Archive. There is an excerpt from this score in the February 1946 issue and a composer profile of Friedhofer by Lawrence Morton in the September-October 1950 issue. As is, the May 1946 issue in the file at the Internet Archive is 34 pages long, but the total file is 76 pages.

Pages 36 to 47 consist of a "special release on the matchless English film, Olivier's Henry V." The first page of this, on National Film Music Council stationery like all the previous issues from 1941 to this one, has a date of June 1946 on it, like it is a new issue or a supplement of some kind. These 12 pages have some page numbers, but they are not consistent. This section consists of:

• A criticism of composer William Walton's music by Hubert Clifford, from Tempo, December 1944.
• An analysis of the score by Stanlie McConnell
• Biographical information about Walton
• References about sources of traditional music in the score, recordings of Walton's works, books with mentions of Walton, periodicals with the same, and three "special publications."

The next 5 pages, 48 to 52, with "2nd Issue, June 1946" at the top, include:

• Current and coming entertainment films worthy of the music educators' consideration
• Major music films
• Films containing selections of standard works
• Film scores by leading composers
• Light and popular music films

The large file concludes, from page 55 to 76, with what looks like another supplement, and the first page again on National Film Music Council stationery. This supplement is numbered up to 21 pages, but in the large file, pages 22 and 23 are to be found before this final section out of sequence as pages 53 and 54. I have placed them after page 21, that seems where they should be. This section is announced as "Special Bulletin: Current information of value to all music educators":

• Organization and objectives of the National Film Music Council (Grace Widney Mabee)
• What happened in Cleveland in the field of film music
• The future of films in music education (James F. Nickersch)
• New York University School of Education to include films in summer session methods courses (Gordon E. Bailey)
• Good musical scoring deserves better attention (Lorin F. Wheelwright)
• Preview of MGM's forthcoming Two Sisters from Boston
  • Music used in the film (Charles Previn)
  • Comments of the previewers
  • Answers to the criticisms and possible education uses of the film (Stanlie McConnell)
• Current and coming entertainment films worthy of music ecuators' consideration (M.E.N.C.)
• Music heard in Two Sisters in Boston
• Good 16mm films with music (M.E.N.C.)

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