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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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:
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Shirley Jones and Robert Preston
Warner Brothers 27158
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