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Always loved this score - great main title!
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Always loved this score - great main title!
Great love theme too!
I saw the film when it first came out in a huge theatre in San Diego. The opening main title was really impressive.
Newman was very ill when he composed this score yet he wrote such a wonderful score so full of energy. Page Cook once told me Ken Darby conducted some of the score and all of the LP.
I wish Newman lived a few more years as I'm sure he could have given us some more great scores. Ditto for Victor Young.
This score was orchestrated by Leo Shuken and Jack Hayes
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I was 6 years old when the movie was originally released. Alfred Newman's main title grabbed hold and never let go. Just marvelous.
We are in desperate need of some AIRPORT love... A box of all of them would be great... However... the first is still the best.
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The main title captures a highly energetic hustle-and-bustle, utterly modern (in-period, now), yet uncontaminated by pop music. Works for me! I'd have to play the film again to recall the love theme, but I'd bet on liking that too.
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Airport's love theme got lots of radio airplay when the film was in release.
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AIRPORT was the very first film score I listened too, and played it over and over. As has been pointed out, the main title is an exciting, driving piece of music.
Somewhere in an old Films In Review article if I recall, I read that Newman also wanted to convey the nervousness of flying, which is reflected in the violins in the opening moments of the main title.
Every time I walk through an Airport I listen to the main title on my iPod, and it really adds a whole other dimension to my travels.
I know the film enough that there are little bits of music not represented on the soundtrack LP. It would be nice to hear all of the original music created for the film.
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