Dan Sheehan
@dansheehan.memyon.org
Film music historian and writer.
Support good journalism, social justice, writers and educators.
He/him
I use alt text obsessively.
NYC/CT based.
Profile pic: Cathedral HS, 1978
#filmsky #filmscores #music #moviesky
Support good journalism, social justice, writers and educators.
He/him
I use alt text obsessively.
NYC/CT based.
Profile pic: Cathedral HS, 1978
#filmsky #filmscores #music #moviesky
Each Veterans Day, I always listen to Maurice Ravel's "Le Tombeau de Couperin" which he wrote in memory of his friends who lost their lives serving in WWI.
Currently playing on WQXR in NYC, this recording by Leonard Slatkin and the National Orchestra of Lyon.
#classicalmusic #veteransday
Currently playing on WQXR in NYC, this recording by Leonard Slatkin and the National Orchestra of Lyon.
#classicalmusic #veteransday
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Each Veterans Day, I always listen to Maurice Ravel's "Le Tombeau de Couperin" which he wrote in memory of his friends who lost their lives serving in WWI.
Currently playing on WQXR in NYC, this recording by Leonard Slatkin and the National Orchestra of Lyon.
#classicalmusic #veteransday
Currently playing on WQXR in NYC, this recording by Leonard Slatkin and the National Orchestra of Lyon.
#classicalmusic #veteransday
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Danelectros are very fine instruments. I always wanted one, but ended up with a fake Hofner violin bass instead...
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Danelectros are very fine instruments. I always wanted one, but ended up with a fake Hofner violin bass instead...
Carl Stalling made early use of - and helped refine - what was to become the "click-track" method of synchronizing the music track with the film. This was important in the first of the Disney "Silly Symphonies" cartoons: "Skeleton Dance" which was scored by Stalling.
2/
#filmsky #moviesky
2/
#filmsky #moviesky
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Carl Stalling, BOTD in 1891 (d. 1972).
One of the most innovative and influential film composers that most people have never heard of - because most of his music was written for the cartoon shorts of Walt Disney and Warner Brothers from the 1920s to 1950s.
1/
#filmsky #moviesky #musicsky
One of the most innovative and influential film composers that most people have never heard of - because most of his music was written for the cartoon shorts of Walt Disney and Warner Brothers from the 1920s to 1950s.
1/
#filmsky #moviesky #musicsky
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
In 2012, a Variety poll of 40 top current film composers voted Ennio Morricone’s THE MISSION (1986) as the greatest film score of all time.
It truly IS a great score, and his cue “Gabriel’s Oboe” has become one of the most popular pieces he ever wrote.
Here he conducts it in 2004:
4/
#filmsky #BOTD
It truly IS a great score, and his cue “Gabriel’s Oboe” has become one of the most popular pieces he ever wrote.
Here he conducts it in 2004:
4/
#filmsky #BOTD
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Over the course of his long career, Ennio Morricone worked with some of the most well-known directors in Hollywood and beyond.
But his most famous collaboration was with Sergio Leone. Starting with 1964’s A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS, Morricone would score all of Leone’s movies.
2/
#filmsky #moviesky
But his most famous collaboration was with Sergio Leone. Starting with 1964’s A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS, Morricone would score all of Leone’s movies.
2/
#filmsky #moviesky
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Ennio Morricone, born on this day in 1928 (d. 2020), was one of the most prolific film composers in history.
By the numbers:
𝄇 Over 400 films scored, across 7 decades
𝄇 Scored over 70 award-winning movies
𝄇 Six Oscar nominations (One win)
𝄇 Over 70 million records sold
1/
#BOTD #filmsky #moviesky
By the numbers:
𝄇 Over 400 films scored, across 7 decades
𝄇 Scored over 70 award-winning movies
𝄇 Six Oscar nominations (One win)
𝄇 Over 70 million records sold
1/
#BOTD #filmsky #moviesky
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
November 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
On behalf of all film music aficionados I hereby declare November 10th a national holiday.
It marks the birth anniversary of four legendary film music artists:
𝄇 Carl Stalling (1891-1972)
𝄇 Ennio Morricone (1928-2020)
𝄇 Marilyn Bergman (1929-2022)
𝄇 Billy May (1916-2004)
#filmsky #moviesky #musicsky
It marks the birth anniversary of four legendary film music artists:
𝄇 Carl Stalling (1891-1972)
𝄇 Ennio Morricone (1928-2020)
𝄇 Marilyn Bergman (1929-2022)
𝄇 Billy May (1916-2004)
#filmsky #moviesky #musicsky
November 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
November 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Love movies? Love music?
Then you are in the right place!
Saturday at 10am Eastern join us to play "What's the Score?" --the weekly movie music guessing game.
So, get into your favorite comfy chair and fire up your hi-fi.
Coming up soon!
#filmsky #moviesky #musicsky #games #fun #filmscores
Then you are in the right place!
Saturday at 10am Eastern join us to play "What's the Score?" --the weekly movie music guessing game.
So, get into your favorite comfy chair and fire up your hi-fi.
Coming up soon!
#filmsky #moviesky #musicsky #games #fun #filmscores
November 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
November 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
November 7, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Incredible as it may seem, today is the birthday of TWO men who each invented a musical instrument that was named after them by adding "phone" to the end of their name.
John Philip Sousa (1854-1932): the Sousaphone
Adolphe Sax (1814-1894): the Saxophone
#musicsky #conicindence #synchronicity
John Philip Sousa (1854-1932): the Sousaphone
Adolphe Sax (1814-1894): the Saxophone
#musicsky #conicindence #synchronicity
November 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Incredible as it may seem, today is the birthday of TWO men who each invented a musical instrument that was named after them by adding "phone" to the end of their name.
John Philip Sousa (1854-1932): the Sousaphone
Adolphe Sax (1814-1894): the Saxophone
#musicsky #conicindence #synchronicity
John Philip Sousa (1854-1932): the Sousaphone
Adolphe Sax (1814-1894): the Saxophone
#musicsky #conicindence #synchronicity
November 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
TRUMP on phone:
Zohran, congratulations, come visit me at "The Oval Office"
Zohran, congratulations, come visit me at "The Oval Office"
November 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
TRUMP on phone:
Zohran, congratulations, come visit me at "The Oval Office"
Zohran, congratulations, come visit me at "The Oval Office"
Lol Ross Douthat coping hard this morning
November 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Lol Ross Douthat coping hard this morning
Although, Ross Douthat has weighed in with this gem...
November 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Although, Ross Douthat has weighed in with this gem...
November 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Zohran Mamdani now has over one million votes in the NYC Mayoral elections.
These mayors never cracked the million mark:
Adams
de Blasio
Bloomberg
Giuliani
Dinkins
Koch
You need to go back to 1969 and John Lindsay for the last time any NYC mayor got 1 million+ votes
#nycmayor #zohran #mamdani
These mayors never cracked the million mark:
Adams
de Blasio
Bloomberg
Giuliani
Dinkins
Koch
You need to go back to 1969 and John Lindsay for the last time any NYC mayor got 1 million+ votes
#nycmayor #zohran #mamdani
November 5, 2025 at 3:43 AM