Showing posts with label Alfred Newman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alfred Newman. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Answer


Answer to last week's quiz question:
The composer who was asked [by Alfred Newman] to present the 1938 Oscar for Best Score was Arnold Schoenberg, who did not attend the ceremony but sent a message in which he hoped that 'there will soon come a time, when the severe conditions and laws of modernistic music will be no hindrance any more toward a reconciliation with the necessities of the moving picture industry'.

Friday, March 8, 2013

Quiz question


Which of the following composers was invited to present the 1938 Oscar for Best Film Score:

- Wolfgang Korngold
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Ernst Toch
- Hanns Eisler, or
- Alfred Newman?