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Composers of the Week: The Golden Age of Hollywood

on BBC Radio 3

Presented by David Huckvale.

Film composers who introduced jazz and contemporary idioms into the cinema, with music by Hugo Friedhofer (The Best Years of Our Lives), Alex North (A Streetcar Named Desire, The Sound and the Fury and Spartacus), Franz Waxman (A Place in the Sun), Elmer Bernstein (The Man with the Golden Arm, Walk on the Wild Side and To Kill a Mockingbird) and Leonard Rosenman (East of Eden, Rebel without a Cause and A Man Called Horse).

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Presenter:
David Huckvale

BBC Radio 3

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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