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Home Alone: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack of the 1990 film of the same name. [1] The score was composed by John Williams and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score; the film's signature tune "Somewhere in My Memory" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media.
Somewhere in Time is a 1980 American romantic fantasy drama film from Universal Pictures, directed by Jeannot Szwarc, and starring Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, and Christopher Plummer. It is a film adaptation of the novel Bid Time Return (1975) by Richard Matheson , who also wrote the screenplay.
Mike Sammes Singers' vocal version of "Somewhere My Love" was released in 1966 and peaked at No. 14 in 1967 in the UK. [4] Manuel & the Music of the Mountains' orchestral version reached No. 42 in the UK in 1966. [18] Charlie Matthews & The Royal Showband had a No. 1 hit with "Somewhere My Love" in Ireland in 1966. [19]
In 2004, this version finished at #20 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. "Somewhere" is the only track that is out of sequence on the original soundtrack album as it is the last track on Side 2. This is rectified on the CD as "Somewhere" is correctly placed in sequence to the film between "The Rumble" and "Cool."
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The conductor Sir Thomas Beecham made several orchestral suites from neglected music by George Frideric Handel, mostly from the composer's 42 surviving operas.The best known of the suites are The Gods Go a'Begging (1928), The Origin of Design (1932), The Faithful Shepherd (1940), Amaryllis (1944) and The Great Elopement (1945, later expanded as Love in Bath, 1956).
John Barry Prendergast OBE (3 November 1933 – 30 January 2011) [1] [2] was an English composer and conductor of film music. Born in York, Barry spent his early years working in cinemas owned by his father.
These Orchestral Variations were premiered the following year, conducted by Robert Whitney. Copland regarded the "lean, percussive and rather harmonically severe" quality of the piano [4] as essential to the Piano Variations in 1930, but after 27 years, reinvented the work to take advantage of a full orchestral palette. The Orchestral ...