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On Monday nights (at 7 p.m.), Bill Morelock and Lynne Warfel steal an hour from the Canon of classical music, and get away to the movies. Let the spirit of boilerplate movie trailer narrative guide us:

In a world dominated by the classics, an intrepid band of composers, speaking with a cinematic accent, emerges once a week during high summer, to evoke tribal tales of cowboys, and comedies, and Kansas tornadoes.

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Roll Credits: 03/26/2012

Mikos Rozsa: Sinbad Battles and Finale from The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
City or Prague Phil/Kenneth Alwyn
Silva 1056

Nino Rota: The Godfather Finale
Studio Orchestra
MCA 10231 3:50

Bernstein: Finale and End Credits West Side Story
Sony 89226
Original Soundtrack re-release

Maurice Jarre: Is Paris Burning?
BBC Concert Orchestra/Jarre
RCA 35793

Rodgers and Hammerstein: Finale to Oklahoma
Soundtrack
Angel 27350

Rodgers and Hammerstein: So Long, Farewell and Climb Every Mountain
Sound of Music Soundtrack
RCA PCD1-2005

Henry Mancini: Pink Panther Theme
Boston Pops/Williams
Philips 47362

Irving Berlin: There's No Business Like Show Business
Boston Pops/Williams
Philips 438070

Richard Rodgers: Slaughter on Tenth Avenue

Irving Berlin: Easter Parade Finale
Judy Garland and Fred Astaire
CBS 45392

Meredith Willson:
Goodnight my Someone and 76 Trombones from The Music Man
Shirley Jones and Robert Preston
Warner Brothers 27158

Barry: Goldfinger End Credits

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