To celebrate Waxman’s 112th birthday, ASCAP reprinted excerpts from their 2006 interview with his son John Waxman, guardian of his father’s catalogue through his company, Themes & Variations and Fidelio Music Publishing Company.
Category Archives: Media Coverage
Cinema’s Exiles – Documentary on PBS
Cinema’s Exiles: From Hitler To Hollywood traces the experiences of the Jews who fled Nazi Germany and took refuge in Hollywood, and examines their impact on both the German and the American cinemas. John Waxman served as producer on this documentary. Click here for more info. Now available on DVD and CD!
Waxman on TCM
Every month TCM airs classic Waxman films. Check here to see this month’s schedule.
The Music of Sunset Boulevard with German Subtitles
Click here to watch Franz Waxman: The Music of Sunset Boulevard with German Subtitles.
1931 Footage of Waxman at Piano
“Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht” (The Man in Search of His Murderer) is a 1931 UFA comedy film with screenplay by Billy Wilder and directed by Robert Siodmak. Click here to watch Waxman sing and play piano with the Weintraub Syncopators.
Miklos Rozsa Society
Miklos Rozsa Society has posted a 1950 interview with Franz Waxman, a transcription of one of 15 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation programs on prominent Hollywood composes, reprinted in Musica Pro Sana. Click here for the complete transcript.
Cossacks at Proms
John Wilson’s Hollywood Rhapsody on BBC 4
At the Royal Albert Hall in London England on August 26, 2013, John Wilson and his orchestra celebrated the music of Hollywood. Ride of the Cossacks and A Place in the Sun are among the film scores featured. With soloists Venera Gimadieva, Matthew Ford and Jane Monheit.
Joshua Recording
Maximilian Schell stars as narrator in world-premiere recording of Franz Waxman’s last composition. Shown above, behind the scenes recording JOSHUA in the Rudolfnum, Prague, Czech Republic, July 31, 2004. Additional information available on Deutsche Grammophon.
Franz Waxman’s Rebecca
Franz Waxman’s Rebecca: A Film Score Guide will be of interest to musicologists and film scholars, as well as fans of Alfred Hitchcock and Franz Waxman. David Neumeyer and Nathan Platte situate the score for this classic work within the context of the composer’s life and career. Available on Amazon.
Composer of the Week on BBC
Waxman was featured as Composer of the Week on BBC in May 2008. Listen to the complete program here.