NORMAN DELLO JOIO: "Airpower" - Music from the 1956 CBS series

1) Introduction (Main Theme)

2) (@02:27) "Mission in the Sky"

The Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy (rec. 1957)

from Albany TROY250 (1997)

Wonderful all-American works.
John Vincent (1902-1977) was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He studied with George Whitefield Chadwick, Roy Harris, Walter Piston and Nadia Boulanger. He succeeded Arnold Schoenberg as Professor of Composition at the University of California at Los Angeles. "Air Power" was a CBS television series, which premiered on November 11, 1956 and ran for 26 weeks. It traced the first 50 years in the history of aviation from Kitty Hawk tot he present. The fine Pulitzer Prize winning composer, Norman Dello Joio (1913-2008)composed a huge amount of music for this series - so many memorable tunes! In fact, if you have never heard any of the music on this disc, you are in for a treat. Enjoy it and be astonished at Mr. Ormandy and the Orchestra's great contribution.

Contents:
Norman Dello Joio, composer
Air Power
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, conductor

John Vincent, composer
Symphonic Poem after Descartes
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, conductor

John Vincent, composer
Symphony in D
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, conductor

Review:
"Before Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark, there was Air Power. I have no idea if John Williams ever heard Norman Dello Joio's ambitious score for a 1957 CBS series on the history of aviation, but the resemblance is interesting. I enjoyed this imaginative, tuneful, and colorfully Orchestrated suite, written when the composer's reputation was at its zenith. For a conductor who gets so little respect, Eugene Ormandy certainly made a lot of excellent recordings, and this is one of the most interesting." (American Record Guide)

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[Philobiblion]

The first 30 seconds of Air Power are emblematic of our youth, like Victory at Sea. These are tropes we return to, supporting or enriching our narrative of these years, the Fifties. All I can say is I reject any politician who wants to return us to the 50s, or any other era, to the present. PJTramdack

[Glinkaism1]

@spacepatrolman I liked The Body Snatchers, the original 195 b&w movie directed by Don Siegel. And I liked a lot of the old b&w movies. It's the pure bullshit digital fx movies that I can't stand.

[spacepatrolman]

@Glinkaism1 I just met a guy that said he met patric macnee when he was doing a play watch the video dont get me wrong the pretenders he is in that i like to watch black and white science fiction movies in here like KRONOS

[Glinkaism1]

@spacepatrolman When digital replaced analog, the sound & pictures were a lot better, technically, but that loving analog feeling was gone. Alien science fiction movies nowadays, by nature of their unreality, depend more on digitized special effects than on acting. Look at Harry Potter. Some famous British stage actors did little more than act as window dressing for the really scholocky special effects. They actors stand before a screen and react to an unseen monster or villain. Pathetic!

[spacepatrolman]

@Glinkaism1 People had to use their inginuty more then and their imagination now everything is too blatant

[Glinkaism1]

@spacepatrolman Oh, I see. I was in the biz back when it was fun. The days of record turntables and tape recorders. There's no glamor in the biz now sitting before a mic and computer screen. There's a romance in the equipment and the times in the days before digital.

[spacepatrolman]

@Glinkaism1 no I just happen to know some people that are / were

[Glinkaism1]

@spacepatrolman Are you or were you in the broadcasting biz?

[spacepatrolman]

@Glinkaism1 i didnt know he had a paralised arm from farm work thats like philo farnsworth that invented the tv picture tube he had the idea from rows of crops on a farm tangney worked with edwin armstrong who invented fm at wgbh in boston i know a couple of guys who worked at nbc who knew benett don pardo the anoucer and another guy that was an accountant at nbc

[Glinkaism1]

@spacepatrolman "The Broadway Sound" The Autobiography and Selected Essays of Robert Russell Bennet" edited by George J. Ferencz is the full name of the paperback book I have. Really great. Bennett was a prolific guy. He had a paralyzed arm from farmwork. He was very much into creating the Broadway musicals "sound" via arranging. The book has tons of references. Sounds like you are quite into his genre, as am I. Glad to know you. :) Your Ralph Tangney connection is interesting.