Check out my other items ! Y ou can also see more auctions here I list more items each month If ordering more than 1 item please wait for my invoice as eBay may overestimate shipping cost. They may not be a household name, but the Newman family is woven in our collective moviegoing experience, one that more often than not has perked the ears of Oscar.Item: 325906507462 HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY Alfred Newman CD Movie Soundtrack SEALED. "Maybe it is in some of the approach, the melodic writing, the sensitivity to picture."įor the Newmans, music is a generational compulsion, it seems - a thread that has never frayed. "My family sometimes says, 'Oh, that sounds like something your grandfather would, you know, gives me these feelings' and all that kind of thing," Joey said. "It's not going to be handed to me I'm going to have to work for it."Īlready his music is winning awards, including his score for the ABC sitcom, "The Middle ," now in its ninth season. "I'm certainly not going to get it served to me," he said. He's been nominated more than any other Newman (except Alfred). His score for "Ragtime" earned him the first of 20 Oscar nominations. Composer Randy Newman.īut it's his movie music that's really set Randy apart. "One day I woke up and there was a baby grand piano in my room in case I was Mozart and hit some thirds, I guess they wanted me to have the chance to do it!" Randy laughed. He seemed destined to write songs from a very early age. Remember the satirical song "Short People"? Well, that's his. "I guess, so, I guess I am, with the musical Newmans at the moment," he replied. And that was kind of the beginning of me, when I stopped trying to be, I think in a way, a member of the family."Īlfred's Newman nephew, Randy, may be the Newman you're most familiar with.Ĭowan asked, "Do you sort of feel like now you're the patriarch now of this family?" "I think I had to give it all up, I think that's what happened. "It was tough at first to have any sense of what I was, what my style was, and then how I would fit in," said Thomas. "None of us intended when we were young, I don't think, to do this." Composer and conductor David Newman, with correspondent Lee Cowan.ĭavid Newman grew up to score over 100 films himself, including the music for "Hoffa." "It was kind of like a siren call, but it wasn't a natural thing that everyone, 'Well, this is what we're going to do,'" said Alfred's son, David Newman. He had 11 Oscar nods to his name - so many that Marilyn Monroe said she wouldn't do a musical without him.Īs time went on, the Newman family tree grew, and with each new branch there seemed to be more music that blossomed. Lionel composed the familiar theme for the TV series "Daniel Boone," and eventually succeeded Alfred as head of Fox's music department. It must have run in the family, because his two brothers, Emil and Lionel, joined him in the business. He won nine Academy Awards.Įxcerpt: "Main Title" from "How the West Was Won" by Alfred Newman Over the course of his career - most of it as music director at Fox - he composed, conducted or arranged more than 200 film scores, earning him a stunning 45 Oscar nominations.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |