...Julie Hubbert When the film Tár premiered in the fall of 2022, it immediately generated both praise and controversy. Critics and viewers were impressed by actress Cate Blanchett’s tour-de-force portrayal of the fictious orchestral conductor Lydia Tár. Just as many, however, found the film’s...

...Robynn J. Stilwell Two musical trends of the 1930s—the development of a practice for scoring sound films, and the increasing concertization of the spiritual in both solo and choral form—help shape the soundscape of films based in the South and/or on Civil War themes in early sound-era Hollywood...

... in this article by the Étude, op. 10, no. 12 (“Revolutionary”), the Nocturne, op. 15, no. 3, and the Funeral March from the Piano Sonata, op. 35. These traits have prompted recent films by Andrzej Zulawski and Zbig Rybczynski to adopt Chopin's music as a means of collective mourning in post-Communist Poland...