Franz Waxman - Music from the Documentaries '2020

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Dragon’s Domain Records, to be distributed through buysoundtrax.com,
presents the world premiere release of FRANZ WAXMAN: THE DOCUMENTARIES,
featuring music composed by the legendary composer for selected documentaries
from the documentary series THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY was one of the most distinguished documentary series in
television history. For nine years, from 1957 to 1966, this Sunday-night fixture
presented well-written, thoroughly researched and compellingly filmed half-hours
on history, science and culture. All were hosted by legendary newsman Walter
Cronkite. Many of these programs featured original scores by some of Americas
most renowned classical composers. Executive producer Burton Benjamin and
producer Isaac Kleinerman approved the concept and supported Symphony conductor
Alfredo Antoninis series of commissions. Over the course of nine seasons, such
noted composers as George Antheil, Darius Milhaud, Alan Hovhaness, Paul Creston
and Ulysses Kay contributed original music.

In 1960, one more distinguished figure joined this group: two-time Academy Award
winner Franz Waxman, who scored a remarkable two-part episode titled The
Mysterious Deep, about the worlds oceans and what scientists were discovering
about life beneath the waves. In 1964, he would score Lenin and Trotsky, which
examined the roles of these two Russians during the early history of the Soviet
Union. Waxman composed and orchestrated the scores, which were conducted by
Antonini in New York a few weeks before each program aired. These three programs
are believed to be Waxmans only work in the documentary field.

The Mysterious Deep aired on March 22 and April 3, 1960, and is an important
documentary for reasons beyond its music: First, it contains one of the earliest
American television interviews with legendary explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau,
whose UNDERSEA WORLD OF JACQUES COUSTEAU would later revolutionize TVs approach
to oceanography; and second, for its remarkably prescient view of climate
change. Within its first five minutes, scientist Athelstan Spilhaus warns of the
greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide in the worlds atmosphere that could
eventually melt the polar ice caps.

Four years later, TWENTIETH CENTURY engaged the composer for another
documentary, a historical look at the men behind the Bolshevik Revolution.
Waxman was no stranger to the Soviet Union; he was the first American conductor
to conduct the major orchestras of Moscow, Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) and
Kiev. Lenin and Trotsky aired on May 3, 1964, and was considered enough of a
television event that the venerable TV Guide magazine showcased it in a
half-page Close-Up.

Dragon’s Domain Records is excited to present the world premiere release
of FRANZ WAXMAN: THE DOCUMENTARIES, mastered by James Nelson at Digital Outland,
with liner notes written by noted author Jon Burlingame.

Tracklist:
01. Franz Waxman - The Power of the Sea Titles / Fundy Tide (from THE MYSTERIOUS
DEEP) (2:31)
02. Franz Waxman - The Cage (from THE MYSTERIOUS DEEP) (4:33)
03. Franz Waxman - Fishing Fleet / Fresh Water / Medical Research (from THE
MYSTERIOUS DEEP) (3:50)
04. Franz Waxman - Aquaculture / Ocean Fish / SCUBA Man (from THE MYSTERIOUS
DEEP) (5:10)
05. Franz Waxman - Innerspace Titles (from THE MYSTERIOUS DEEP) (3:37)
06. Franz Waxman - Ocean / Submarine Skate (from THE MYSTERIOUS DEEP) (2:24)
07. Franz Waxman - Submarine Polaris (from THE MYSTERIOUS DEEP) (2:47)
08. Franz Waxman - Bathyscaphe Trieste (from THE MYSTERIOUS DEEP) (3:19)
09. Franz Waxman - Jellyfish Life In Ocean / Radioactive Waste Barrels (from THE
MYSTERIOUS DEEP) (2:11)
10. Franz Waxman - Medical Research (from THE MYSTERIOUS DEEP) (0:47)
11. Franz Waxman - Bathyscaphe Trieste II (from THE MYSTERIOUS DEEP) (2:53)
12. Franz Waxman - Czar Amusements / Petrograd (from LENIN AND TROTSKY) (1:20)
13. Franz Waxman - Ulyanov Lenin / Winter Palace / World Revolution (from LENIN
AND TROTSKY) (4:08)
14. Franz Waxman - Soviet Revolution / Poland / Organize Red Army (from LENIN
AND TROTSKY) (3:10)
15. Franz Waxman - Terror / New Economic Policy / Funeral (from LENIN AND
TROTSKY) (4:24)
16. Franz Waxman - Trotsky Exile / Man Without a Country (from LENIN AND
TROTSKY) (3:00)
17. Franz Waxman - Assassination (from LENIN AND TROTSKY) (1:22)
18. Franz Waxman - Kerensky (from LENIN AND TROTSKY) (1:27)

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