Friday, January 25, 2013

Speaking more of Oscar Levant

He wrote the music for more than 20 movies. Among them was Charlie Chan at the Opera. Oddly enough, for a man who spent his career largely associated with popular music, he studied under Arnold Schoenberg, the inventor of the twelve-tone system of atonal music.

If you take the time to listen to episodes of the old Information Please radio show, of which was broadcasted live and unrehearsed and of which many examples can be downloaded from the internet, you can appreciate his quick and caustic wit.

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