Composer Profile: Alfred Newman
- 1901-1970 American Born
- Large family of Newmans in the industry today
- Career spans 40 years covering the golden age of movies
- Prolific composer conductor and respected executive Music director for 20th century fox studios
- Head of music department at fox Nominated 45 academy awards and won 9 Oscars
- 250+ film scores
- Distinctive style was the "fox string sound"-strings playing in their high registers
- Composed lyrical woodwind lines and sonorous brass parts - Captain From Castile: Conquest
- Favored instruments with fast vibratos-intensity to the musical line
- Forte was religious oriented pictures
- Personal favorite score song of Bernadette
Wuthering Heights
- Scored by Alfred Newman in 1939
- Newman utilized a lyrical and sensitive score to bring out the passion of a tortured relationship
- The leitmotif for Cathy is one of Newman's most beautiful themes of his career.
- Film was a masterpiece of romantic filmmaking in large part by Alfred Newman's score
- Score utilizes Newman's "Fox String Sound" and use of heavy vibrato which were trademark signatures in his film music
- Newman considered the score to Wuthering Heights to be among his three top scores of his 250+ film scores