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Monday, 4 August 2008 04:23 pm
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For my birthday back in May, my sister Sarah bought two tickets to an open-air concert called Dial H for Hitchcock at Wolf Trap. It was advertised as the National Symphony Orchestra playing the scores from To Catch a Thief, Strangers on a Train, Dial M for Murder, and North by Northwest, with clips from each movie shown on a screen. Two days ago, we finally attended.
Background: I have seen 26 movies directed by Alfred Hitchcock and can even name them in the order in which I first watched them. Yes, that's geeky of me.
( Review )
Upon seeing parts of DMfM again, I wondered how I'd failed to notice Grace Kelly's hotness before. This prompted me to ask Sarah if she ever found pre-1960 actors hot. She said no, because all the would-be hotties frequently played jerks. She definitely has a point: Bogart, Brando, Gable, Mitchum... hard to think of an exception who wasn't gawky like James Stewart.
Anyway, without thinking of the concert, I happened last week to compose the start of a suspense theme in my head. I might set it in Play Music like most of my compositions, but that cheap program produces only piano sounds and this calls for an orchestra. Maybe I'll finally get Finale.
Background: I have seen 26 movies directed by Alfred Hitchcock and can even name them in the order in which I first watched them. Yes, that's geeky of me.
( Review )
Upon seeing parts of DMfM again, I wondered how I'd failed to notice Grace Kelly's hotness before. This prompted me to ask Sarah if she ever found pre-1960 actors hot. She said no, because all the would-be hotties frequently played jerks. She definitely has a point: Bogart, Brando, Gable, Mitchum... hard to think of an exception who wasn't gawky like James Stewart.
Anyway, without thinking of the concert, I happened last week to compose the start of a suspense theme in my head. I might set it in Play Music like most of my compositions, but that cheap program produces only piano sounds and this calls for an orchestra. Maybe I'll finally get Finale.