There really was a boomlet of "piano concertos" written expressly for
films in the 40s and through the 50s, perhaps spurred by the success
of the Warsaw Concerto. Here are a few, and I'm sure Karl and others
can list dozens more:
Spellbound Concerto (Rozsa)
The Glass Mountain (Rota)
The Apartment (Deutsch)
Dream of Olwen (C. Williams)
Cornish Rhapsody (Bath)
A favorite piece of mine in this "light" vein, though not for a movie,
is the Transatlantic Rhapsody by Klaus Wusthoff. I wonder if anyone
other than Karl has heard it.
Jeff Dunn
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Alameda, CA
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