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Black Book (soundtrack)
The album ''Black Book'' is the soundtrack of the film '' Black Book'' (2006). The album was supposed to be released on 29 September 2006 by Warner, but this was rescheduled. The first release was on 2 October 2006 by Milan Records. The album contains 23 tracks. The first four tracks, songs from the 1930s and 1940s, are sung by actress Carice van Houten. In the film ''Black Book'' she plays Rachel Stein, a singer from Berlin. The first of these four songs is in English and the other three are in German. The other 19 tracks on the album are written by Anne Dudley Anne Jennifer Dudley (née Beckingham; born 7 May 1956) is an English composer, keyboardist, conductor and pop musician. She was the first BBC Concert Orchestra's Composer in Association in 2001. She has worked in the classical and pop genre .... The music is arranged and conducted by Anne Dudley. The album is produced by Roger Dudley. Track listing References {{DEFAULTSORT:Black Book (Soundtrack) 2006 sound ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Dudley
Anne Jennifer Dudley (née Beckingham; born 7 May 1956) is an English composer, keyboardist, conductor and pop musician. She was the first BBC Concert Orchestra's Composer in Association in 2001. She has worked in the classical and pop genres, as a film composer, and was one of the core members of the Synth-pop band Art of Noise. In 1998, Dudley won an Oscar for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score for '' The Full Monty''. In addition to over twenty other film scores, in 2012 she served as music producer for the film version of ''Les Misérables'', also acting as arranger and composing some new additional music. Career Dudley was born in Beckenham, Kent. She graduated with a master's in music from King's College London in 1978. Trained as a classical performer, she moved into the competitive commercial field as a session musician, where her professional relationship with Trevor Horn began. In 1982, Dudley made significant contributions to the Horn-produced '' The Lexic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin is Capital of Germany, the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and List of cities in Germany by population, by population. Its more than 3.85 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, most populous city, as measured by population within city limits having gained this status after the United Kingdom's, and thus London's, Brexit, departure from the European Union. Simultaneously, the city is one of the states of Germany, and is the List of German states by area, third smallest state in the country in terms of area. Berlin is surrounded by the state of Brandenburg, and Brandenburg's capital Potsdam is nearby. The urban area of Berlin has a population of over 4.5 million and is therefore the most populous urban area in Germany. The Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Movie Database
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. It is now owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes) and million person records. Additionally, the site had 83 million registered users. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. Features The title and talent ''pages'' of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries. Most of the site's data has been provided by these volunteers. Registered users with a pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Fritz Beckmann
Hans may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Hans (name), a masculine given name * Hans Raj Hans, Indian singer and politician ** Navraj Hans, Indian singer, actor, entrepreneur, cricket player and performer, son of Hans Raj Hans ** Yuvraj Hans, Punjabi actor and singer, son of Hans Raj Hans * Hans clan, a tribal clan in Punjab, Pakistan Places * Hans, Marne, a commune in France * Hans Island Hans Island ( Inuktitut and kl, Tartupaluk, ; Inuktitut syllabics: ; da, Hans Ø; french: Île Hans) is an island in the very centre of the Kennedy Channel of Nares Strait in the high Arctic region, split between the Canadian territory of ..., administrated by Greenland and Canada Arts and entertainment * ''Hans'' (film) a 2006 Italian film directed by Louis Nero * Hans (Frozen), the main antagonist of the 2013 Disney animated film ''Frozen'' * ''Hans'' (magazine), an Indian Hindi literary monthly * ''Hans'', a comic book drawn by Grzegorz Rosiński and later by Zbigniew Kasprzak Oth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Bochmann
Werner Bochmann (17 May 1900, Meerane, Kingdom of Saxony – 3 June 1993) was a German composer. Selected filmography * '' Playing with Fire'' (1934) * ''The Island'' (1934) * ''One Too Many on Board'' (1935) * ''Punks Arrives from America'' (1935) * '' Fruit in the Neighbour's Garden'' (1935) * ''Thunder, Lightning and Sunshine'' (1936) * ''The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss'' (1936) * '' The Grey Lady'' (1937) * ''Alarm in Peking'' (1937) * '' The Citadel of Warsaw'' (1937) * ''Between the Parents'' (1938) * ''The Marriage Swindler'' (1938) * ''I Love You'' (1938) * ''The Girl of Last Night'' (1938) * '' Who's Kissing Madeleine?'' (1939) * ''Detours to Happiness'' (1939) * ''Congo Express'' (1939) * '' My Aunt, Your Aunt'' (1939) * '' A German Robinson Crusoe'' (1940) * ''Happiness is the Main Thing'' (1941) * ''Quax the Crash Pilot'' (1941) * ''Sky Hounds'' (1942) * ''Front Theatre'' (1942) * ''Melody of a Great City'' (1943) * ''Sophienlund'' (1943) * ''The Green Salon'' (1944) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Balz
Bruno Balz (6 October 1902, in Berlin – 14 March 1988, in Bad Wiessee) was a German songwriter and schlager writer. From the time he wrote the music for the first German sound film until his retirement in the 1960s, Balz was responsible for the lyrics to over a thousand popular hits. Much of his output was in conjunction with the composer Michael Jary; their songs helped make the singer Zarah Leander popular. Balz was arrested several times for homosexuality. In 1936 he spent several months in prison, and was released under an agreement that mandated that his name was no longer to appear in public. To maintain the appearance of propriety he entered a "lavender marriage" with a woman named Selma. He was rearrested in 1941 by the Gestapo and was kept in the Gestapo headquarters in Prinz-Albrecht-Straße. He was released from imprisonment by the intervention of Jary, who persuaded officials that he could produce songs that would aid the war effort. Within a day of his release, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Hollaender
Friedrich Hollaender (in exile also Frederick Hollander; 18 October 189618 January 1976) was a German film composer and author. Life and career He was born in London to a Jewish family, where his father, operetta composer Victor Hollaender, worked as a musical director at the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Young Hollaender had a solid music and theatre family background: his uncle Gustav was director of the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, and his uncle Felix Hollaender was a well-known novelist and drama critic, who later worked with Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater. In 1899 Hollaender's family returned to Berlin. His father began teaching at the Stern Conservatory, where his son became a student in Engelbert Humperdinck's master class. In the evening he played the piano at silent film performances in local cinemas, developing the art of musical improvisation. By the age of 18 he was employed as a répétiteur at the New German Theatre in Prague and also was put in charge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Liebmann
Robert Liebmann (5 June 1890 - July 1945) was a German screenwriter. Selected filmography * ''The Uncanny House'' (1916) * '' Prostitution'' (1919) * '' The Duty to Live'' (1919) * ''Die Arche'' (1919) * '' The Count of Cagliostro'' (1920) * '' Va banque'' (1920) * '' Indian Revenge'' (1920) * '' Temperamental Artist'' (1920) * ''The Woman Without a Soul'' (1920) * ''The Story of a Maid'' (1921) * '' The Last Hour '' (1921) * '' Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (1921) * ''His Excellency from Madagascar'' (1922) * ''The Girl with the Mask'' (1922) * ''Money in the Streets'' (1922) * ''The Little Napoleon'' (1923) * '' Paradise in the Snow'' (1923) * ''The Three Marys'' (1923) * ''The Slipper Hero'' (1923) * '' Claire'' (1924) * '' Comedians of Life'' (1924) * '' The Wonderful Adventure'' (1924) * '' Mother and Child'' (1924) * '' Father Voss'' (1925) * ''Reluctant Imposter'' (1925) * ''Love Story'' (1925) * '' Shadows of the Metropolis'' (1925) * ''The Adventures of Sybil Brent'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Young
Albert Victor Young (August 8, 1899– November 10, 1956)"Victor Young, Composer, Dies of Heart Attack", ''Oakland Tribune'', November 12, 1956. was an American composer, arranger, violinist and conductor. Biography Young is commonly said to have been born in Chicago on August 8, 1900, but according to Census data and his birth certificate, his birth year is 1899. His grave marker shows his birth year as 1901. He was born into a very musical Jewish family, his father being a tenor with Joseph Sheehan's touring opera company. After his mother died, his father abandoned the family. The young Victor, who had begun playing violin at the age of six, and was sent to Poland when he was ten to stay with his grandfather and study at Warsaw Imperial Conservatory (his teacher was Polish composer Roman Statkowski), achieving the Diploma of Merit. He studied the piano with Isidor Philipp of the Paris Conservatory. While still a teenager he embarked on a career as a concert violinist with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Young (lyricist)
Joe Young (July 4, 1889 – April 21, 1939) was an American lyricist. He was born in New York. Young was most active from 1911 through the late-1930s, beginning his career working as a singer and song-plugger for various music publishers. During World War I, he entertained the U.S. troops, touring Europe as a singer. Works An early work is the song "Way Down East" (©1910) words by Cecil Mack, music by Joe Young and Harold Norman, published by Gotham-Attucks Music Publishing Company. ''The Laugh Parade'' For the 1931 Broadway show ''The Laugh Parade'', Young collaborated with co-lyricist Mort Dixon and composer Harry Warren on " You're My Everything". The show also included: * "Ooh! That Kiss" * "Love Me Forever" * "That Torch Song" Later efforts * " In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town" * " Lullaby of the Leaves" * " Snuggled On Your Shoulder, Cuddled In Your Arms" * "Was That the Human Thing To Do?" * "Something in the Night" * "Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore" * "I'm Growing Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ned Washington
Ned Washington (born Edward Michael Washington, August 15, 1901 – December 20, 1976) was an American lyricist born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Life and career Washington was nominated for eleven Academy Awards from 1940 to 1962. He won the Best Original Song award twice: in 1940 for " When You Wish Upon a Star" in ''Pinocchio'' and in 1952 for "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin')" in '' High Noon''. Washington had his roots in vaudeville as a master of ceremonies. Having started his songwriting career with '' Earl Carroll's Vanities'' on Broadway in the late 1920s, he joined the ASCAP in 1930. In 1934, he was signed by MGM and relocated to Hollywood, eventually writing full scores for feature films. During the 1940s, he worked for a number of studios, including Paramount, Warner Brothers, Disney, and Republic. During these tenures, he collaborated with many of the great composers of the era, including Hoagy Carmichael, Victor Young, Max Steiner, and Dimitri Ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Hundred Years From Today
"A Hundred Years from Today" is a popular song published in 1933 with music by Victor Young and lyrics by Ned Washington and Joe Young. The song was included in the London production of Lew Leslie's ''Blackbirds of 1934''. A recording of "A Hundred Years from Today" by Ethel Waters accompanied by Benny Goodman & His Orchestra was very popular in 1933. Other recordings *Jack Teagarden recorded at least four versions of it, the first on November 11, 1933 for Brunswick Records (catalog No. 6716A) which is featured on his album ''King of the Blues Trombone'' (1963), another recorded for Decca Records on May 26, 1941 (catalog No. 4317B) that omits the verse, and one in his last album ''A Hundred Years from Today'' (1963). The first is sung by Teagarden in the style of smooth singers of the time, the last is bluesy. *Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra (vocal by Lee Wiley), recorded February 24, 1934 for Brunswick Records (catalog No.6775). * Sarah Vaughan - recorded on April 30, 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
