For many years cited by the International Film Critics Poll as the "Greatest Film of All Time," Orson Welles Citizen Kane (his debut film no less, that found Welles producing, directing, co-writing, and starring) is a bonefide masterpiece that found the young Welles' breaking all the rules of filmmaking and creating all new ones, including a bevy of bravura techniques that are still inspiring filmmakers and viewers to this day. With the film back on the big screen (playing in area theaters this past Sunday and this coming Wednesday, July 8), we will focus on some music connected in some ways to Citizen Kane on Tuesday afternoon's Classical Music with Foley Schuler. Selections will included Bernard Herrmann's score to the film (in his screen debut as well) and Michael Daughtery Concerto for Theatre Organ and Orchestra, Once Upon a Castle, which takes as points of departure both various characters and elements from Citizen Kane, as well as the real-life media baron William Randolph Hearst (who would inspire the film's title character) and his palatial home, the "Hearst Castle," San Simeon.
You can hear Foley Schuler's musical selections—and stories behind the music—every weekday afternoon on Blue Lake Public Radio.
