Composer-producer William Perry has played a major rôle in the revival of interest in silent films, both through his more than one hundred silent film scores and through his Emmy Award-winning television series, The Silent Years, hosted by Orson Welles and Lillian Gish. A rich array of Perry’s film music was presented in the critically acclaimed Naxos recording, Music for Great Films of the Silent Era (8.572567). Now this companion volume offers a further view of Perry’s colourful and exuberant writing, including his new Silent Film Heroines song-suite for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, celebrating eight of the legendary actresses of the silent cinema. Perry’s supremely melodic sense of period and style captures perfectly the romance, grandeur and humour of those entertaining days when “Movies were movies!”
Tracklist
Artist details
Carroll, Ronn - Lyricist
Wheeling, William S. - Lyricist
Perry, William - Lyricist
Perry, William
Silent Film Heroines
1 I. Lillian Gish (Orphans of the Storm) 04:51
2 II. Mary Pickford (Pollyanna) 03:33
3 III. Greta Garbo (A Woman of Affairs) 03:56
4 IV. Gloria Swanson (Fine Manners) 04:56
5 V. Vilma Banky (The Night of Love) 03:28
6 VI. Betty Bronson (Peter Pan) 03:37
7 VII. Pearl White (The Perils of Pauline) 02:31
8 VIII. Janet Gaynor (Seventh Heaven) 05:58
Perry, William
Summer Nocturne
9 Summer Nocturne 12:05
Brass from the Past
10 I. Blue Ophicleide 06:09
11 II. Military Ophicleide 03:33
12 III. Pastoral Ophicleide 04:04
13 IV. Latin Ophicleide 07:53
McCrae, John - Lyricist
Kingsley, Sidney - Lyricist
Perry, William - Lyricist
Perry, William
Hearts of the World
14 Hearts of the World 12:04
Total Playing Time: 01:18:38
