Hollywood, the new album by German pianist Sebastian Knauer is centred around the music and family story of legendary American film music composer Alfred Newman.
He recorded it with the son of Alfred, conductor and composer David Newman and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.
Alfred Newman, the founding father of the Hollywood sound, composer of the world’s most famous fanfare, the 20th Century Fox logo, winner of nine Academy Awards, nominated for 45, friend of Gershwin, Copland, Bernard Herrmann, mentor of Alex North, Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith and founder of the most successful film music dynasty: his younger brothers Emil and Lionel Newman (“Hello, Dolly!”), his older son David Newman (“Ice Age”, “Anastasia”), the younger son Thomas Newman (“American Beauty”, “James Bond: Skyfall”), his nephew Randy Newman ... and his grandchildren are already starting their careers ...
George Gershwin or Aaron Copland, Alex North or Elmer Bernstein, Bernard Herrmann or Jerry Goldsmith – all the composers on Sebastian Knauer’s new album have three things in common: they come from the USA, they have naturally intertwined classical composition and film music, and they are closely associated with Alfred Newman.
