New Year’s Eve concert with Kirill Petrenko and Diana Damrau and the Berliner Philharmoniker streaming on their Digital Concert Hall.

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.

Matthew Sweet marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Franz Waxman, in two parts.

Watch a curated selection of performances of Carmen Fantasie, Tristan & Isolde, and Ride to Dubno on YouTube.

A musical tour of Camden, Maine – location site of “Peyton Place”. Watch here.

In October 2017,  the City of Opole  in Poland unveiled a plaque to honor Franz Waxman at the home where he lived with his family from 1915 until he left for Dresden to attend music school. The plaque was unveiled by Mayor Arkadiusz Wiśniewski. In conjunction with the unveiling, Silesian television aired a brief documentary on his early life in German/Polish.

Over 40 piano/vocal selections including the title tracks from movies plus the songs as well as other film and cabaret songs composed in Berlin and Paris. Also includes 13 photos, many never before published. Order on Amazon or more details here.

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!

Every month TCM airs classic Waxman films. Check here to see this month’s schedule.

Watch Waxman’s acceptance speech for Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture for “Sunset Blvd.” at the 1951 Academy Awards. Watch him accept the award in 1952 for “A Place in the Sun.”

Click here to watch Franz Waxman: The Music of Sunset Boulevard with German Subtitles.

“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 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.

The Naxos Series “Waxman Conducts” features the Los Angeles Festival Orchestra performances at the Los Angeles Music Festival (1947-1966) which included 70 World, American and West Coast premieres by such composers as Prokofiev, Mahler, Schoenberg, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Vaughn Williams and Walton. Click here for more info.

She’s Alive!!! James Whales’ 1935 classic horror film – starring Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester — comes to life in a full evening presentation with Franz Waxman’s fantastic score played live. Represented by IMG artists.

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.

Watch Per Tengstrand & Shan-shan Sun (Duo Tengstrand-Sun) live at Helsingborg Piano Festival, Sweden 2007-08-05.