Musique à Hollywood

"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" is a 1969 american western film that tells the story of bank robbers Butch Cassidy, played by Paul Newman and his partner Harry Longabaugh. 1970, at the 42nd Academy Awards, "Raindrops Keep Fallin 'on My Head" wins the Oscar for best original song !

"Lujon" est l'instrument de musique qui a donné son nom à cette pièce musicale qui en scande le rythme tout au long du morceau. Sorte de métallophone fait d'une caisse en bois surmontée d'un jeu de lames mises en vibration par percussion. Le lujon avait fortement impressionné Mancini.

"Repassez-moi l'standard" le dimanche à 19h, une variation sur un thème célèbre, une ballade musicale pour se laisser surprendre par les innombrables reprises et interprétations de Body and soul, Moon River, Giant Steps, Round midnight…

George Gershwin made two quick stops in Charleston, in December of 1933 and by late February 1934 : “I have begun composing music for the first act, and I am starting with the songs and spirituals first.” One of the first numbers he wrote was the most legendary “Summertime”

"Dear Cole, I am mad about Night and Day, i think it is your high spot. You know it is being played all over. And the orchestra leaders think it is the best tune of the year and I agree ! Really, Cole, it is great. And i could not resist the temptation of writing you about it. As ever" Irving Berlin

"The Shadow of Your Smile" d'après le texte original du grand poète noir américain Paul-Francis Webster sur une musique du compositeur Johnny Mandel. Oscar de la meilleure chanson originale, elle éclipsera le film de Vincente Minnelli dont elle est issue "The Sandpiper-Le Chevalier des sables"

"Fly Me to the Moon", originally titled "In Other Words" is a song written in 1954 by Bart Howard. Kaye Ballard made the first recording of the song in 1954. Frank Sinatra's 1964 version was closely associated with the Apollo missions to the Moon.!

"Lou Reed's idea of hell would be to sit in heaven with Bob Dorough," Nellie McKay

"The Good life-La Belle Vie" chanson composée par Jean Broussolle & Sacha Distel (1962) qui deviendra un standard de jazz sous le titre "The Good Life" en 1963 !

“I wrote Misty from a beautiful rainbow I saw when I was flying from San Francisco to Chicago. This rainbow was fascinating, it was very wide and in every color you can imagine. With the dew drops and the windows being misty that fine rain that’s how I named it Misty!” Erroll Garner

Le compositeur Alexandre Desplat a décroché son deuxième Oscar dimanche 4 mars pour la bande-originale de « La Forme de l'eau » ("The Shape of Water"), la romance fantastique de Guillermo del Toro.

A song written by Bob Thiele as "George Douglas" & George-David Weiss. It was first recorded by Louis Armstrong and released as a single in 1967. Thiele and Weiss were prominent in the music world, Thiele as a producer and Weiss as a composer/performer.

En marge du glamour des stars du grand écran, les compositeurs aussi auront leur moment de gloire le 28 février prochain à la cérémonie annuelle des Oscars. A quelque heures de la 88e édition, voici les nominations pour la meilleure musique de film.