Abe Meyer
Abe Meyer( 1901 – 1969) was an American composer of film scores.
The Honeymoon Killers
The Honeymoon Killers is a 1970 American crime film written and directed by Leonard Kastle, and starring Shirley Stoler and Tony Lo Bianco.
Its plot follows a sullen, overweight nurse who is seduced by a con man, with whom she embarks on a murder spree of elderly women.
The film was inspired by the true story of Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, the notorious "lonely hearts killers" of the 1940s.
Filmed primarily in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, production of "The Honeymoon Killers" began with Martin Scorsese as its appointed director.
However, after Scorsese was fired early into the shoot, Kastle, who had helped develop the film, took over directing.
The film's score comprises the first movement of the 6th Symphony and a section of the 5th Symphony of Gustav Mahler.
Released in early 1970, the film was met with critical praise for its performances, as well as remark of its realism.
"The Honeymoon Killers" went on to achieve cult status as well as critical recognition, and was named by François Truffaut as his "favorite American film."
A digital restoration of the film was released on DVD by The Criterion Collection in 2003, and again in 2015 with a new digital transfer.
Shirley Stoler
Shirley Stoler( March 30, 1929 – February 17, 1999) was an American actress best known for her roles in" The Honeymoon Killers" and Lina Wertmüller's" Seven Beauties".
Alonso Mudarra
Alonso Mudarra( c. 1510 – April 1, 1580) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, and also played the vihuela, a guitar- shaped string instrument.
He was an innovative composer of instrumental music as well as songs, and was the composer of the earliest surviving music for the guitar.
Leonard Kastle
Leonard Gregory Kastle (February 11, 1929 – May 18, 2011) was an American opera composer, librettist, and director, although he is best known as the writer/director of the 1969 film "The Honeymoon Killers", his only venture into the cinema, for which he did all his own research.
He was an adjunct member of the SUNY Albany music faculty.
Following his high school education in Mount Vernon, New York, Kastle began his musical training at the Juilliard School of Music (1938–40).
From 1940-42, he attended the Mannes School of Music and later studied composition at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia (1944–50), earning a B.A. in 1950.
While at the Curtis Institute, he held scholarships in composition with Rosario Scalero, Gian-Carlo Menotti and Samuel Barber, and a piano scholarship with Isabelle Vengerova.
He attended Columbia University from 1947 to 1950.
In 1956, Kastle composed a thirteen-minute "made-to-measure" opera, titled "The Swing", for two singers, a speaking part, and piano accompaniment.
It was commissioned by and broadcast on the NBC television network on Sunday, June 10, 1956, at noon.
He also wrote "The Pariahs", about the sinking of the whaler "Essex", a trilogy of operas about the Shakers known under the collective title "The Passion of Mother Ann: A Sacred Festival Play", a children's opera called "Professor Lookalike and the Children", a piano concerto, sonatas for piano and violin, and three unproduced screenplays, "Wedding at CanaChange of Heart", and "Shakespeare's Dog".
In a 2003 interview for the Criterion Collection, he said that no producer wanted "Wedding at Cana", just another "Honeymoon Killers", which he did not want to do.
After "The Honeymoon Killers", Kastle returned to teaching and composing.
After the Criterion release of the film, he was rediscovered by a new generation of cult film enthusiasts and occasionally attended film-related events such as the Ed Wood Film Festival in 2007, where he served on the panel of judges
Kastle died May 18, 2011, at his home in Westerlo, New York, at the age of 82.
Lonely Hearts (2006 film)
Lonely Hearts is a 2006 American film directed and written by Todd Robinson.
It is a neo-noir based on the true story of the notorious" Lonely Hearts Killers" spree killing of the 1940s, Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez.
The story of Beck and Fernandez was also the subject of the 1970 film" The Honeymoon Killers", directed by Leonard Kastle and the 1996 film" Deep Crimson", directed by Arturo Ripstein.
Henri Verdun
Henri Verdun( 1895–1977) was a French composer of film scores.
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation.
As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century.
While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music gained wide popularity only after periods of relative neglect, which included a ban on its performance in much of Europe during the Nazi era.
After 1945 his compositions were rediscovered by a new generation of listeners; Mahler then became one of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers, a position he has sustained into the 21st century.
In 2016, a "BBC Music Magazine" survey of 151 conductors ranked three of his symphonies in the top ten symphonies of all time.
Born in Bohemia (then part of the Austrian Empire) to Jewish parents of humble origins, the German-speaking Mahler displayed his musical gifts at an early age.
After graduating from the Vienna Conservatory in 1878, he held a succession of conducting posts of rising importance in the opera houses of Europe, culminating in his appointment in 1897 as director of the Vienna Court Opera (Hofoper).
During his ten years in Vienna, Mahler—who had converted to Catholicism to secure the post—experienced regular opposition and hostility from the anti-Semitic press.
Nevertheless, his innovative productions and insistence on the highest performance standards ensured his reputation as one of the greatest of opera conductors, particularly as an interpreter of the stage works of Wagner, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky.
Late in his life he was briefly director of New York's Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic.
Mahler's "œuvre" is relatively limited; for much of his life composing was necessarily a part-time activity while he earned his living as a conductor.
Aside from early works such as a movement from a piano quartet composed when he was a student in Vienna, Mahler's works are generally designed for large orchestral forces, symphonic choruses and operatic soloists.
These works were frequently controversial when first performed, and several were slow to receive critical and popular approval; exceptions included his Second Symphony, Third Symphony, and the triumphant premiere of his Eighth Symphony in 1910.
Some of Mahler's immediate musical successors included the composers of the Second Viennese School, notably Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg and Anton Webern.
Dmitri Shostakovich and Benjamin Britten are among later 20th-century composers who admired and were influenced by Mahler.
The International Gustav Mahler Institute was established in 1955 to honour the composer's life and achievements.
Tarcisio Fusco
Tarcisio Fusco was an Italian composer of film scores.
He was the brother of the composer Giovanni Fusco and the uncle of operatic soprano Cecilia Fusco.
Walter Ulfig
Walter Ulfig was a German composer of film scores.

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