Take a break from streaming films with some “cinema for your ears” as Goethe-Institut Toronto Program Curator Jutta Brendemühl introduces you to the best & brightest film composers in an ongoing video series called "The Sound Of Filmmusik" (takes 1-3 here, takes 7-9 here), from Hollywood super star Hans Zimmer to 2020 Oscar winner Hildur Guðnadóttir.
How do you compose for an Oscar-winning director’s film about a musician born to deaf parents? Swiss composer Niki Reiser has the answer:
Revolutionary music for revolutionary times: Kurt Weill was, next to Hanns Eisler, Bertolt Brecht’s close music collaborator. Their biggest success: The Threepenny Opera, where Weill cruelly sings: “First make sure that those who are now starving get proper helpings when we all start carving. What keeps mankind alive? The fact that millions are daily tortured, stifled, punished, silenced and oppressed. Mankind can keep alive thanks to its brilliance in keeping its humanity repressed. And for once you must try not to shrink the facts: Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts."
With classic German film “Das Boot” enjoying a renaissance as a successful TV series, let’s look at director Wolfgang Petersen’s go-to composer Klaus Doldinger, who scored the original (and "The Neverending Story" and many more):
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Take a break from streaming films with some “cinema for your ears” as Goethe-Institut Toronto Program Curator Jutta Brendemühl introduces you to the best & brightest film composers in an ongoing video series called "The Sound Of Filmmusik" (takes 1-3 here, takes 7-9 here), from Hollywood super star Hans Zimmer to 2020 Oscar winner Hildur Guðnadóttir.
