Reply To: Choose 10 Golden Age must-haves
OK, ok, I give this a shot… 10 Golden Age must-haves, cut-off point at 1948, and only one per composer. Were it not for the “one per composer”, it would be easy, I could just list every Miklós Rózsa or Bernard Herrmann score. But I stick to the parameters.
In chronological order:
Aaron Copland: The City (1939)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: The Sea Hawk (1940)
Roy Webb: The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
Hans J. Salter & Paul Dessau: House of Frankenstein (1944)
Franz Waxman: Rebecca (1940)
Bernard Herrmann: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Miklós Rózsa: The Lost Weekend (1945)
Max Steiner: Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Dimitri Tiomkin: Red River (1948)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic (1948)