Bruce Eder has written a perfunctory career-review piece about Miklos Rosza for Films in Review, dated 8.21. But it’s a much better thing to simply listen to any one of Rosza’s better compositions. Like this one. There’s a very serene mood that seeps in towards the end, getting quieter and quieter over the last minute or so. Old-school composers were expected to keep the fanfare loud and brassy for films of this type; only artists like Rosza had the cojones to go the other way.

August 23, 2008by Jeffrey Wells11 Comments