Music In Film (National Public Radio Milestones Of The Millennium)
Good film music should be seen and not heard--that is, it's usually there for background, to reinforce what you're seeing, not to draw attention to itself. So why listen to it? Often that's a mystery, but the items in this collection seem to have been selected because they are interesting music (Prokofiev, Copland, Bernstein) or because they are so familiar that they bring back memories of favorite movies (Laura,High Noon,Star Wars). Like much movie music, a lot of these items are sentimental and overblown, even the more famous ones. (Those famous screaming strings inPsychocan sound silly without the onscreen action.) But if you want one movie-music CD in your collection, this may be the one to have.--Leslie Gerber