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Sound of Cinema: Wings

Wings

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Matthew turns his thoughts to film music that explores our sky-borne aspirations.

With the arrival of the much-anticipated sequel to Top Gun with us, Matthew turns his thoughts to film music that explores our sky-borne aspirations.

With the arrival of the much anticipated sequel to Top Gun' with us, Matthew turns his thoughts to film music that explores our skyborne aspirations. As well as a cue from the new score for 'Top Gun Maverick' by Lorne Balfe and Hans Zimmer, the programme features music from 'Birdman', 'Carnival Row', ''Hook', 'Captain Marvel', 'Avatar', Danny Elfman's score for 'Dumbo', 'E.T - the Extra-Terrestrial', 'The Aeronauts', 'The First Of The Few', 'Brewster McLeod', 'Amelia' and Justin Hurwitz's 'First Man', the Classic Score of the Week is Franz Waxman's music for 'The Spirit of St Louis'.

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