Poetry Cafe 18: film music and poetic texts I

The first of three programmes on film music and poetic texts (poems and novels) that inspired films.

1. Mammy, sung by Al Jolson (1927)
2. Top Hat, White Tie and Tails, sung Fred Astaire in Top Hat (1934)
3. As time goes by, music by Max Steiner, from Casablanca (1942)
4. Night Mail by W. H. Auden, with music by Benjamin Britten (1936)
5. The Sorcerers’ Apprentice, by Goethe, with music by Paul Dukas, from Fantasia (1939)
6. Music from Gone With the Wind,(1939)by Max Steiner
7. Cinema Poem, by Roger McGough
8. Fog, by Carl Sandburg
9. Second Piano Concerto (First Movement) , by Rachmaninov, from Brief Encounter (1945)
10. Brief Encounter, poem by Jules Smith
11. From Prometheus Unbound, by Shelley
12. Sinfonia Antartica (First Movement)by Vaughan Williams, from Scott of the Antarctic (1948)
13. Zither music by Anton Karas, from The Third Man (1949)
14. Singing in the Rain, sung by Gene Kelly, in Singing in the Rain (1952)
15. Music by Bernard Herrmann from Psycho (1960)
16. Lara’s Theme from Dr Zhivago (1965), music by Maurice Jarre
17. Extract from the end of Tod in Venedig, by Thomas Mann
18. Adagietto, from Mahler’s Symphony No 5, from Death in Venice