DURING a career that endured nearly five decades, Hungarian-born Miklós Rózsa composed scores for fantasy and adventure films, historical epics, film noir, romances and psychological thrillers. He won ...

In the 2004 issue of British lit mag Granta, Adam Mars-Jones makes a plea for silence in movies. "Music in films can be as carefully chosen from sequence to sequence as wines to match the courses of a ...

The amazing thing about Hungarian film composer Miklos Rozsa (1907-95) was his versatility. He could create epic scores for "Ben-Hur" and "King of Kings" and then score some of Hollywood's most ...

Iranian musician and scholar Nasrollah Davudi is scheduled to discuss a number of Rozsa’s works during the session. Rozsa received 17 Oscar nominations for his works. He won three Oscars for ...

Of all the Hollywood composers of the film industry’s golden age — essentially the ’30s and ’40s — Miklos Rozsa was perhaps the one who tried the hardest to simultaneously integrate a film career with ...

LITTLE ROCK — During a career that endured nearly five decades, Hungarian-born Miklos Rozsa composed scores for fantasy and adventure films, historical epics, film noir, romances and psychological ...

Miklos Rozsa, "Ben-Hur" World Premiere digital recording of the complete film score performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Nic Raine (Tadlow Music, two discs).

The Academy Award nominations were announced this week, including 5 nominees for best music score. Back in 1946, Miklos Rozsa won the Oscar for his score to Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound. Rosza later ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. EL CID In his autobiography, composer Miklos Rozsa referred to his music for the movie "El Cid" as "my last major film score." When a moviegoer thinks ...

When music director Daniel Spalding takes the podium of the New Jersey Capital Philharmonic for its inaugural concert at the Trenton War Memorial Tuesday night, he is determined to leave its audience ...

The financial desolation of the late 1920s and 30s forced Rozsa to keep the wolf from the door by writing fanfares for Pathe newsreels, while Korngold turned to arrangements of Viennese operetta.