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Saturday Cinema: George Bailey and Friends

Classical Music Features Lynne Warfel · Dec 5, 2020
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  1. Listen Saturday Cinema: It's a Wonderful Life and Friends

    58min 56sec

The biggest portion of today's show is a huge suite from "It's a Wonderful Life". A reconstruction of what Dmitri Tiomkin originally intended, only to have most of his score on the cutting room floor.

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Lynne Warfel

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Lynne has been at this radio thing since 1984 when she fell into an historic job at KFAC AM and FM, the commercial classical station in Los Angeles.


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