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Articles by Fanfare Contributor Frederic Silber

  ALEX NORTH/MANCINI: Four Girls in Town.

  HAZEL O'CONNOR: BREAKING GLASS (Hazel O'Connor)

  ALFRED NEWMAN: ANASTASIA.

  Henry Mancini 10 (Henry Mancini)

  ARTIE KANE: Eyes of Laura Mars.

  HONEYSUCKLE ROSE (Willie Nelson & Family)

  BACHARACH: ARTHUR, THE ALBUM.

  HONKYTONK MAN (Steve Dorff)

  BARRY DEVERZON: The Warriors.

  Jamaaladeen Tacuma. SHOW STOPPER (Jamaaladeen Tacuma)

  BASIL POLEDOURIS: THE BLUE LAGOON.

  JERRY GOLDSMITH -- STAR TREK-THE MOTION PICTURE (Jerry Goldsmith)

  BERNARD HERRMANN: Torn Curtain.

  Joe Jackson. Night and Day (Joe Jackson)

  BERNARD HERRMANN: Vertigo.

  JOHN BARRY -- THE BLACK HOLE (John Barry)

  BILL CONTI: An Unmarried Woman.

  John Hiatt. Bring The Family (Hiatt)

  BILL CONTI: Paradise Alley.

  JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT (Original Broadway Cast)

  BILL CONTI: Slow Dancing in the Big City.

  Kate McGarrigle. Anna McGarrigle. Love over and... (Kate McGarrigle)

  BILL CONTI: THE FORMULA.

  Lalo Schifrin The Amityville Horror (Lalo Schifrin)

  BILL CONTI: Uncle Joe Shannon.

  Laurie Anderson. MISTER HEARTBREAK (Laurie Anderson)

  BILLY GOLDENBERG: Ballroom.

  LION OF THE DESERT (Maurice Jarre)

  BRIAN MAY: THE DAY AFTER HALLOWEEN.

  LOCALHERO (Mark Knopfler)

  BRICUSSE/NEWLY: Stop the World I Want to Get Off.

  MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (Universal-International O & Ch)

  BURGON: BRIDESHEAD REVISITED.

  MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES (Universal-International O)

  CARL DAVIS: THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN.

  MARCH OF THE FALSETTOS (Original Cast)

  CARMINE COPPOLA: THE BLACK STALLION.

  MARCO POLO (Ennio Morricone)

  CAROL HALL: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. .

  Mary Martin/Noel Coward: Together with Music (unidentified O)

  CHARLES FOX: 9 TO 5.

  MAX STEINER -- BEYOND THE FOREST (Max Steiner)

  CHARLES HAROLD BERNSTEIN: Love At First Bite.

  MAX STEINER -- MUSIC FOR WESTERNS (Max Steiner)

  CHIHARA: PRINCE OF THE CITY.

  McVICAR (Jeff Wayne)

  CLAUDE BOLLING: California Suite.

  MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG (Stephen Sondheim)

  CY COLEMAN: On the Twentieth Century.

  MIKLÓS RÓZSAFEDORA (Miklós Rózsa)

  DANIEL VALDEZ: ZOOT SUIT.

  MORALI, JACQUES: CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC (Undetermined)

  DAVE GRUSIN: ON GOLDEN POND.

  MORODER, GIORGIO: FOXES (Undetermined)

  DAVE GRUSIN: The Champ.

  Music from John Williams' Close Encounters of... (Natl PO)

  DAVID SHIRE: The Promise.

  MUSIC FROM “ONE STEP BEYOND.“ (Harry Lubin)

  ELIZABETH SWADOS: Runaways.

  ONE FROM THE HEART (Tom Waits)

  ELMER BERNSTEIN: Animal House.

  PAT METHENY. Still Life (talking) (Metheny)

  ELMER BERNSTEIN: HEAVY METAL. THE SCORE.

  Peter Gabriel. Security (Peter Gabriel)

  ELMER BERNSTEIN: Meatballs.

  Peter Gabriel. So (Peter Gabriel)

  ELMER BERNSTEIN: To Kill a Mockingbird.

  Peter Gabriel: Passion (Peter Gabriel)

  EUBIE BLAKE: Eubie! .

  Pretty Baby (Jerry Wexler)

  FATS WALLER: Ain't Misbehavin'.

  Prince. 1999 (Prince)

  FRANCIS LAI: International Velvet.

  RAGTIME (Randy Newman)

  FRANK DE VOL: The Choirboys.

  REDS (Paul Gemignani)

  FRANZ WAXMAN: Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man.

  REEL MUSIC. Music from A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, HELP,... (Beatles)

  FRANZ WAXMAN: Peyton Place.

  REICH, STEVE: Different Trains. Electric Counterpoint (Kronos Qrt)

  FRANZ WAXMAN: Sayonara.

  RIO GRANDE (Sons of the Pioneers)

  FRONTIERE: THE STUNT MAN.

  ROCKY III (Bill Conti)

  GALT MACDERMOT: Hair.

  Sandinista (Clash)

  GEORGE DUNING: 1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS.

  SARAFINA! (Original Broadway Cast)

  GEORGES DELERUE: TRUE CONFESSIONS.

  SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (rock soundtrack)

  GERSHWIN: Manhattan.

  SCOTT, TOM: AMERICATHON (Undetermined)

  GIORGIO MORODER: Midnight Express.

  SHARKY'S MACHINE (Al Capps)

  GOBLIN: Dawn of the Dead.

  SOPHISTICATED LADIES (Original Broadway Cast)

  HAMLISCH: Ice Castles.

  SOUP FOR ONE (Bernard Edwards)

  HAMLISCH: They're Playing Our Song.

  STAR TREK II. THE WRATH OF KHAN (James Horner)

  HANS J. SALTER: HORROR RHAPSODY. JOHN CACAVAS: HORROR EXPRESS.

  SUPERMAN II (Ken Thorne)

  HARRY NILSSON: POPEYE.

  SUZANNE VEGA (Suzanne Vega)

  HENRY MANCINI: Revenge of the Pink Panther.

  TEMPEST (Stomu Yamash’ta)

  HENRY MANCINI: Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?.

  THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY (Marc Paul Simon)

  HUGO FRIEDHOFER: The Best Years of Our Lives.

  THE ASTAIRE STORY (stars of Jazz at the P)

  HUGO FRIEDHOFER: This Earth is Mine!.

  THE BLUES BROTHERS (Ira Newborn)

  IKEBE: KAGEMUSHA.

  THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY (rock soundtrack)

  JACK NITZSCHE: Blue Collar.

  THE DARK CRYSTAL (London SO)

  JACK NITZSCHE: Heart Beat.

  THE ETERNAL SEA/MAKE HASTE TO LIVE (Elmer Bernstein)

  JARRE: Crossed Swords.

  THE JAZZ SINGER (Neil Diamond)

  JEFF BARRY: THE IDOLMAKER.

  THE LAST WALTZ (rock soundtrack)

  JERRY FIELDING: The Gauntlet.

  THE LONG RIDERS (Ry Cooder)

  JERRY GOLDSMITH: Capricorn One.

  THE MISSION (Ennio Morricone)

  JERRY GOLDSMITH: Coma.

  THE RINK. Original Broadway Cast Recording (Tom Fay)

  JERRY GOLDSMITH: Damien-Omen II.:.

  The River (Bruce Springsteen)

  JERRY GOLDSMITH: The Boys From Brazil.

  THE THING (Ennio Morricone)

  JERRY GOLDSMITH: The Swarm.

  Thomas DE HARTMANN/Laurence ROSENTHAL - MEETINGS... (Ambrosian Singers)

  JERRY HERMAN: The Grand Tour. .

  TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A (Wang Chung)

  JIMMY WEBB: Voices.

  TRON (London PO)

  JOHN BARRY: INSIDE MOVES.

  VARIOUS -- ALL THAT JAZZ (Ralph Burns)

  JOHN BARRY: SOMEWHERE IN TIME.

  WHO, THE: QUADROPHENIA. Original Motion Picture... (Who)

  JOHN MORRIS: High Anxiety -- Mell Brooks' Greatest Hits Featuring the Fabulous Film Scores of John Morris.

  WHO, THE: THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT (Who)

  JOHN MORRIS: THE ELEPHANT MAN.

  WOMAN OF THE YEAR (Original Broadway Cast)

  JOHN SCOTT: THE FINAL COUNTDOWN.

  XANADU (Olivia Newton-John)

  JOHN WILLIAMS: Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

  Yasushi AKUTAGAWA - AGE OF 8 GRAVESTONES (Yasushi Akutagawa)

  JOHN WILLIAMS: Dracula.

  YOUNG, NEIL: WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM (Undetermined)

  JOHN WILLIAMS: Jaws 2.

  Zubin Mehta Conducts Suites from John Williams'Close... (Los Angeles P)

  JOHN WILLIAMS: Music From “Star Wars.

  AMERICAN POP

  JOHN WILLIAMS: RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK.

  AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN

  JOHN WILLIAMS: STAR WARS/THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.

  ANNIE. Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

  JOHN WILLIAMS: Superman, the Movie.

  BABY

  JOHN WILLIAMS: The Fury.

  BANDES SONORES ORIGINALES DES GRAND FILMS FRANÇAIS

  JOHNNY MANDEL: Agatha.

  BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ

  JOHNNY MANDEL: CADDYSHACK.

  BRIMSTONE & TREACLE

  KANDER: Flora the Red Menace.

  CARNY

  KEITH EMERSON: NIGHTHAWKS.

  COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER. Original Motion Picture...

  LAURIE JOHNSON: FIRST MEN ON THE MOON.

  COAST TO COAST

  LEE HOLDRIDGE: Moment By Moment.

  CRUISING

  LEE HOLDRIDGE: Tilt.

  Danny Elfman: Wunderkind of Filmmusic - A Profile

  LEGRAND: ATLANTIC CITY.

  DEATH WISH II. Music by Jimmy Page

  LENNON/MCCARTNEY/HARRISON: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

  DINER. Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

  LES BAXTER: CRY OF THE BANSHEE/THE EDGAR ALLAN POE SUITE.

  DREAMGIRLS. Original Broadway Cast Album

  LES BAXTER: Goliath and the Barbarians.

  ENDLESS LOVE

  LES BAXTER: The Dunwich Horror.

  FAME

  MIKE BATT: Caravans.

  FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH

  MONTY PYTHON: Monty Python's Life Of Brian.

  FITZCARRALDO

  MORLEY/BATT/WILLIAMSON: Watership Down.

  Fred Astaire: The Belle of New York

  MORRICONE: THE ISLAND.

  Gene Kelly: Song & Dance Man

  MORTON GOULD: Holocaust.

  GIORGIO MORODER -- AMERICAN GIGOLO

  MYROW/SEAGRAVE: Phantasm.

  GREASE 2

  NINO ROTA: Death on the Nile.

  HEAVEN'S GATE

  NINO ROTA: Hurricane.

  HEAVY METAL

  NINO ROTA: Il Casanova di Federico Fellini.

  HONKY TONK FREEWAY

  ORCHIDÉE/WERTHEIMER: L'une Chante l'Autre Pas (One Sings The Other Doesn't).

  JOHNNY GUITAR

  PATRICK WILLIAMS: HOW TO BEAT THE HIGH COST OF LIVING.

  JULES VERNE'S MASTER OF THE WORLD

  PATRICK WILLIAMS: IT'S MY TURN.

  LILI MARLEEN

  PAUL SIMON: ONE TRICK PONY.

  Marilyn Monroe: Never Before and Never Again

  PHILIPPE SARDE: TESS.

  MARRY ME A LITTLE. Original Cast Recording

  QUEEN: FLASH GORDON.

  MEL BROOKS' HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART I

  RANDY NEWMAN: RAGTIME.

  MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG

  RICHARD RODGERS: Allegro .

  MORE AMERICAN GRAFFITI

  RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT: Equus.

  MUSIC AND RHYTHM. A BENEFIT DOUBLE LP FOR A WORLD...

  RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT: Yanks.

  NIGHT SHIFT

  ROY BUDD: The Wild Geese.

  Original Cast Recordings: Fellini, Felines, and...

  RY COODER: THE BORDER.

  PARTY PARTY

  RÓZSA: Kipling's Jungle Book. FRANZ WAXMAN: The Paradine Case. Film Concertos. ROY WEBB: The Enchanted Cottage. Film Concertos.

  PAUL A ROTHCHILD -- THE ROSE.

  RÓZSA: KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE.

  PENNIES FROM HEAVEN

  RÓZSA: Lust for Life Suite; Background to Violence.

  Pino DONAGGIO - PIRANHA

  RÓZSA: Quo Vadis.

  PRIVATE LESSONS

  RÓZSA: Rózsa Conducts Rózsa, Volume 2.

  Reel Music - Silber's Consumer's Guide to Soundtracks...

  RÓZSA: The Thief of Bagdad.

  Reel Music - The Current Soundtrack Scene

  SCHICKELE: Silent Running.

  REEL MUSIC

  SCHIFRIN: Boulevard Nights.

  Reel Music- Soundtracks and the Decline of Western...

  SCHIFRIN: THE COMPETITION.

  Reel Music: Christmas '84 Consumer Guide to Soundtrack...

  SHIRE/DIPASQUALE: Fast Break.

  Reel Music: Rock Around the Schlock Revisited

  STEINER: ADVENTURES OF DON JUAN.

  Reel Music: Silber's Consumer Guide to Film Music,...

  STEINER: BIRD OF PARADISE.

  Reel Music: Silber's Consumer Guide To The Current...

  STEINER: JOHN PAUL JONES.

  Reel Music: Silber's Consumer's Guide to Soundtracks...

  STEINER: Max Steiner Revisited.

  Reel Music: Silber's Consumer's Guide to Soundtracks...

  STEINER: MAX STEINER-FOUR CLASSIC FILM SCORES. Tomorrow Is Forever. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Johnny Belinda. The Fountainhead.

  Reel Music: Silber's Consumer's Guide to Soundtracks...

  STEINER: MUSIC FOR MILDRED PIERCE AND OTHER MELODRAMATIC LADIES.

  Reel Music: Silber's Consumer's Guide to Soundtracks...

  STEINER: THE FILM MUSIC OF MAX STEINER, From soundtracks conducted by the composer. Santa Fe Trail. A Star Is Born. Life With Father. Bird of Paradise.

  Reel Music: Silber's Consumer's Guide to Soundtracks...

  STELVIO CIPRIANI: Tentacles.

  Reel Music: Silber's Consumer's Guide to Soundtracks...

  STEPHEN SONDHEIM: A Little Night Music.

  Reel Music: Silber's Consumer's Guide to Soundtracks

  STU PHILLIPS: Battlestar Galáctica.

  Reel Music: Silber's Consumer's Guide to Soundtracks

  STU PHILLIPS: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

  Reel Music: Silber's Consumers Guide to Soundtracks...

  TANGERINE DREAM: THIEF.

  Reel Music: Soundtracks, Soundtracks, Soundtracks

  VANGELIS: CHARIOTS OF FIRE.

  Reel Music: The Current Soundtrack Scene

  VERNON DUKE: Two's Company. Lyrics by Ogden Nash.

  Reel Music: The Current Soundtrack Scene

  VICTOR YOUNG/SAMMY CAHN: Written on the Wind.

  Reel Music: The Saga Continues

  VICTOR YOUNG: Samson and Delilah.

  RISKY BUSINESS

  VICTOR YOUNG: The Quiet Man.

  ROADIE

  WILLIAMS/ASCHER: The Muppet Movie.

  ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL. Music From the Original...

  42nd STREET (Original Broadway Cast)

  ROUND MIDNIGHT

  American Hot Wax (Kenny Vance)

  SANDS OF IWO JIMA THE SUN SHINES BRIGHT

  ANY WHICH WAY YOU CAN (Steve Dorff)

  Shows: Short Takes

  As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (Pat Metheney)

  Shows

  BACHARACH: TOGETHER? (Undetermined)

  Silber's Consumer's Guide to Soundtrack and Film...

  BATTLES AT VERSAILLES (Jean-Patrice Brosse)

  Silber's Consumer's Guide to Soundtracks and Film...

  BOBBY McFERRIN (Bobby McFerrin)

  Silber's Consumer's Guide to Soundtracks and Film...

  BOURGEOIS TAGG (Bourgeois Tagg)

  Silber's Consumer's Guide to Soundtracks and Film...

  BOY ON A DOLPHIN (20th Century-Fox O & Ch)

  SILBER'S CONSUMER'S GUIDE TO SOUNDTRACKS AND FILM...

  BUSTIN' LOOSE (Roberta Flack)

  SILBER'S CONSUMER'S GUIDE TO SOUNDTRACKS AND FILM...

  CARMINE COPPOLA/FRANCIS COPPOLA -- APOCALYPSE... (David Rubinson)

  Silbers Consumers' Guide To Film Music (Summer...

  CHRISTIANE F. Original Soundtrack (David Bowie)

  SING A SONG OF SONDHEIM

  CLASH OF THE TITANS (Laurence Rosenthal)

  SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT 2

  COODER, RY: THE LONG RIDERS (Undetermined)

  Soundtracks - Reel Music

  COUPERIN, LOUIS: Suites (Blandine Verlet)

  Stay Awake

  DANNY WILSON. Meet Danny (Wilson. Wilson)

  SUMMER LOVERS

  DAS BOOT (THE BOAT) (Klaus Doldinger)

  SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE. Original Cast...

  DAVE GRUSIN -- THE ELECTRIC HORSEMAN (Willie Nelson)

  SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE

  DIGITAL SPACE. Spectacular Music for Films (Morton Gould)

  THAT'S THE WAY I FEEL NOW. A TRIBUTE TO THELONIUS...

  DIVINE MADNESS (Bette Midler)

  THE GREAT MUPPET CAPER

  E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (John Williams)

  THE HOLLYWOOD KNIGHTS

  Elvis Costello and The Attractions. Punch the... (Elvis Costello)

  THE PIRATE MOVIE

  Enya: Watermark (Enya)

  THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE

  Escape Artist (Garland Jeffreys)

  THE PURSUIT OF D.B. COOPER

  ETSY, BOB: ROLLER BOOGIE (Bob Esty)

  THE STING II

  FM (rock soundtrack)

  THIS IS ELVIS

  FOLLIES IN CONCEPT (Stephen Sondheim)

  TIMES SQUARE

  GANDHI (Ravi Shankar)

  UP THE ACADEMY

  GARRETT, SNUFF: BRONCO BILLY (Steve Dorff)

  URBAN COWBOY II

  GOULDMAN, GRAHAM: ANIMALYMPICS (Undetermined)

  URBAN COWBOY

  Great Americana Film Scores (Natl PO)

  WORKING

  Hans J Salter -- HITLER (Hans J. Salter)

  ZAPPED

  Hans J Salter -- SCARLET STREET (Hans J. Salter)

 

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