Alfred Newman (1901-1970)

Suite à mon post sur Nevada Smith dans la rubrique des films d'Icare, je me suis rendu compte qu'il n'y avait pas encore de fil sur Alfred Newman...

C'est réparé  


Alfred Newman, né le 17 mars 1901 à New Haven dans le Connecticut et mort le 17 février 1970 (à 68 ans) à Hollywood en Californie, est un compositeur et chef d'orchestre américain.

Né de parents juifs russes émigrés, Alfred Newman était l'un des sept garçons d'une famille de dix enfants. Il commence à étudier le piano tout jeune enfant puis jeune adulte il travaille à Broadway avec George Gershwin et Cole Porter.
En 1930 il part pour Hollywood rejoindre Irving Berlin. Directeur musical pour le film Whoopee! produit par Samuel Goldwyn il obtient le poste de directeur musical des studios United Artists.

En 1931 il orchestre la musique écrite au piano par Charles Chaplin pour Les Lumières de la ville. En 1940 il devient le directeur musical pour les studios Twentieth Century Fox. Il a composé plus de 200 musiques de films, et a reçu 9 Oscars. Il est aussi le compositeur de la célèbre fanfare de la 20th Century Fox.

Il est le frère d'un autre compositeur de musiques de films, Lionel Newman. Ses fils, David Newman et Thomas Newman, sont également des compositeurs reconnus. Il est enfin l'oncle du pianiste auteur-compositeur-interprète Randy Newman.


Parmi ses quelque 200 musiques de film (manque en particulier ceux d'avant-guerre). On peut trouver la liste complète sur Wiki français.

1930 - Whoopee!
1931 - City Lights (musical director) (music by Charlie Chaplin)
1931 - Indiscreet (musical director)
1931 - Street Scene
1933 - The Masquerader
1936 - Dodsworth
1936 - Born to Dance (musical director; Cole Porter wrote the songs)
1937 - You Only Live Once
1937 - The Hurricane (Academy Award)
1937 - The Prisoner of Zenda (Academy Award nomination for Best Musical Score)
1938 - Alexander's Ragtime Band (Academy Award) (adaptation, the songs were by Irving Berlin)
1939 - The Rains Came
1939 - Gunga Din
1939 - Wuthering Heights (Academy Award nomination for best musical score)
1939 - The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Academy Award nomination for Best Musical Score)
1940 - Vigil in the Night
1940 - Foreign Correspondent
1940 - Broadway Melody of 1940 (musical director; again, Cole Porter wrote the songs)
1940 - The Mark of Zorro (Academy Award nomination for Best Musical Score)
1940 - Tin Pan Alley (Academy Award) (adaptation; the film used old popular songs such as The Sheik of Araby)
1941 - How Green Was My Valley
1942 - Roxie Hart
1942 - The Black Swan
1942 - The Pied Piper (1942 film)
1943 - The Song of Bernadette (Academy Award)
1943 - My Friend Flicka
1944 - The Keys of the Kingdom (Academy Award nomination for Best Musical Score)
1945 - State Fair (adaptation only; this was the musical version by Rodgers and Hammerstein) (Academy Award nomination for Best Adaptation of a Musical Score)
1947 - Captain from Castile (Academy Award nomination for Best Musical Score)
1947 - Mother Wore Tights (adaptation) (Academy Award)
1947 - Gentleman's Agreement
1947 - The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
1948 - Cry of the City
1948 - The Snake Pit
1948 - That Lady in Ermine
1948 - The Iron Curtain
1949 - Twelve O'Clock High
1949 - Chicken Every Sunday
1950 - All About Eve
1950 - Panic in the Streets
1950 - The Big Lift
1952 - The Prisoner of Zenda
1952 - The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1952 - With a Song in My Heart (adaptation only; this musical contained songs by several composers, but Newman was not one of them) (Academy Award)
1953 - How to Marry a Millionaire (Alfred Newman appears conducting an orchestra in the prologue. The music is from Street Scene.)
1953 - The Robe
1953 - Call Me Madam (adaptation; the songs were by Irving Berlin) (Academy Award)
1954 - Demetrius and the Gladiators
1955 - A Man Called Peter
1955 - Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (Academy Award)
1955 - The Seven Year Itch
1956 - Anastasia
1956 - Carousel (adaptation, the songs were by Rodgers and Hammerstein)
1956 - The King and I (adaptation; the songs were by Rodgers and Hammerstein) (Academy Award)
1957 - April Love (adaptation)
1958 - South Pacific (Conductor; the songs were by Rodgers and Hammerstein)
1958 - A Certain Smile
1959 - The Diary of Anne Frank (Academy Award nomination for Best Musical Score)
1961 - Flower Drum Song (adaptation; the songs were again by Rodgers and Hammerstein)
1962 - The Counterfeit Traitor
1962 - State Fair (remake of musical version) (adaptation only; the songs were again by Rodgers and Hammerstein, with additional songs by Richard Rodgers only)
1962 - How the West Was Won (Academy Award nomination for Best Musical Score)
1965 - The Greatest Story Ever Told (Academy Award nomination for Best Musical Score)
1966 - Nevada Smith
1967 - Camelot (adaptation; the songs were by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe) (Academy Award)
1968 - Firecreek
1970 - Airport




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzLZq7O2G8Y

Belle initiative car les Newman sont une véritable dynastie parmi les musiciens d'Hollywood.