Saturday Cinema

Music from the big dance numbers in cinema. Fred and Ginger. Singin' in the Rain. Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. West Side Story and a lot more.

Delightful Dads and Despicable Pops. From Darth Vader to George Bailey, it's a Father's Day salute.

The subject of race in Hollywood is too long a history to be contained in a single hour's radio program, but Saturday Cinema offers an overview.

Listener Requests and a short commemoration of the 76th anniversary of D Day.

A listener request show for Westerns! From "Stagecoach" to spaghetti westerns. A great lineup of music from epic western film.

Some of Hollywood's greatest film composers name mentors who were superstars in classical music. From music school classroom where teachers included Aaron Copland, Percy Grainger and Gustav Mahler, to Hollywood and the red carpet.

A collection of film music from movies all bout mothers and kids. Forrest Gump, Steel Magnolias, and a performance by Bette Midler that will touch your heart.

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco is one of those composers who arrived in Los Angeles, fleeing the onslaught of the fascist regmies, and at UCLA and in Beverly Hills,developed quite a cadre of stellar students. John Williams, Andre Previn, Hanry Mancini and Jerry Goldsmith.

A free-form overview of some big Oscar winners from the first "the Informer" through two centuries of film music.

Biggest winners in Oscar history: Hamlet, Lawrence of Arabia, Patton, Out of Africa, Dances with Wolves, Lord of the Rings/Return of the King