The imaginative author Ray Bradbury has provoked a sense of wow and wonder in millions of readers. His science fiction and fantasy stories have also inspired film and TV adaptations, and the music composed for those projects is full of a sense of wonder, too.
On this week’s Movies on the Radio, host David Garland presents soundtracks from Ray Bradbury-based movies such as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and The Illustrated Man, by composers Bernard Herrmann, Stanley Myers, James Horner, Jerry Goldsmith, and others.
Playlist
Bernard Herrmann - Fahrenheit 451 - suite - National Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. by Herrmann - London
David Buttolph - The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms - suite - Monstrous Movie Music
Jerry Goldsmith - The Illustrated Man - Skin Illustrations, 21st Century House, Main Title - Film Score Monthly
Jerry Goldsmith - Christus Apollo - Part 4 (excerpt) - London Symphony Orchestra, cond. by Goldsmith - Telarc
Stanley Myers - The Martian Chronicles - suite - Airstrip One
James Horner - Something Wicked This Way Comes - Main Title - Intrada
Nathan Van Cleave - I Sing the Body Electric (The Twilight Zone) - Silva Treasury
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Saturday nights at 9:00 pm, host David Garland presents new and old film scores, emphasizing the delights and uniqueness of movie music, and sharing his encyclopedic knowledge of the field.
Hosted by David Garland
Comments [3]
I teach "The Martian Chronicles" to ninth graders. Each year's classes are thrilled with Bradbury's ability to excite us in one paragraph, make us cry in the next one, and terrify us in the third paragraph. I urge lovers of his literature to watch his TV series of the late 1980s called "The Ray Bradbury Theater." He adapted several of the "Chronicles" stories to his show and they are extremely powerful in imaginative energy! May Ray Bradbury "LIVE FOREVER!"
Among the many Bradbury novels and stories I have read, the "The Halloween Tree" had a powerful influence on me when I first read it as a boy. I remember it's effects 35 years later!
Bradbury is known as a science fiction writer mostly because of Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 but he wrote many short stories about other things related to small town american life and everyday events.
Great theme for a show I didn't realize Bernard Herman had scored Fahrenheit 451
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