The Vikings

On my playlist of Film Music this week is the Funneral and Finale from the 1958 United Artists release The Vikings, music composed by Mario Nascimbene.

The 1950s were a great time for most of the film composers of the Golden Age. With the introduction of the different widescreen formats and stereophonic sound systems composers such as Rozsa, Tiomkin, Waxman, Kaper, Steiner, Newman and Young could work on a grand scale that Verdi and Wagner could only imagine.

By the start of the 1960s Hollywood had advanced the motion picture spectacular to high art. These huge budgeted extravaganzas offered casts of thousands, sumptuous scenery and photography and vast, lush musical scores.

Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia