Lara's Theme, the Glossary
"Lara's Theme" is the name given to a leitmotif written for the 1965 film Doctor Zhivago by composer Maurice Jarre.[1]
Table of Contents
50 relations: Adult Contemporary (chart), Andy Williams, Asia, Balalaika, Billboard Hot 100, Born Free (Andy Williams album), Capitol Records, Carlo Ponti, Connie Francis, David Lean, Decca Records, Doctor Zhivago (film), Doctor Zhivago (soundtrack), Ernie Freeman, Frank Sinatra, Geoff Love, Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Chorus, Grammy Award for Song of the Year, Harry James, Ivan Rebroff, Julie Christie, Karel Gott, Leitmotif, Lennon–McCartney, Les Compagnons de la chanson, Maurice Jarre, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Michelle (song), Mike Sammes, Mrs. Miller, Orietta Berti, Paul Francis Webster, Peter Alexander (Austrian performer), Poul Bundgaard, Ray Conniff, Red Steagall, Rita Pavone, Roger Williams (pianist), Ronnie Aldrich, RPM (magazine), Russian Orthodox Church, Scandinavia, Sergio Franchi, Tereza Kesovija, That's Life (Frank Sinatra album), The Beatles, The Brass Ring, The Spy Who Loved Me (film), Yugoslavia, 1966 in music.
- 1965 compositions
- Compositions by Maurice Jarre
- Film music compositions
- Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Chorus
- Songs with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
Adult Contemporary (chart)
The Adult Contemporary chart is published weekly by Billboard magazine and lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary radio stations in the United States.
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Andy Williams
Howard Andrew Williams (December 3, 1927 – September 25, 2012) was an American singer.
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Asia
Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.
Balalaika
The balalaika (балала́йка) is a Russian stringed musical instrument with a characteristic triangular wooden, hollow body, fretted neck, and three strings.
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Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.
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Born Free (Andy Williams album)
Born Free is the twentieth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams and was released on April 10, 1967, by Columbia Records and includes half a dozen songs associated with movies or musicals.
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Capitol Records
Capitol Records, LLC (known legally as Capitol Records, Inc. until 2007), and simply known as Capitol, is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.
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Carlo Ponti
Carlo Fortunato Pietro Ponti Sr. (11 December 1912 – 10 January 2007) was an Italian film producer with more than 140 productions to his credit.
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Connie Francis
Connie Francis (born Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero; December 12, 1937).
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David Lean
Sir David Lean (25 March 190816 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor, widely considered one of the most important figures of British cinema.
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Decca Records
Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.
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Doctor Zhivago (film)
Doctor Zhivago is a 1965 epic historical romance film directed by David Lean with a screenplay by Robert Bolt, based on the 1957 novel by Boris Pasternak.
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Doctor Zhivago (soundtrack)
Doctor Zhivago: The Original Sound Track Album is the soundtrack album composed by Maurice Jarre for the 1965 film Doctor Zhivago.
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Ernie Freeman
Ernest Aaron Freeman (August 16, 1922 – May 16, 1981) was an American pianist, organist, bandleader, and arranger.
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Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor.
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Geoff Love
Geoffrey Love (4 September 1917 – 8 July 1991) was a prolific British arranger and composer of easy listening and pop versions of film themes, famous in the late 1950s under the stage name Manuel and the Music of the Mountains.
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Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Chorus
The Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Chorus was awarded from 1961 to 1968.
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Grammy Award for Song of the Year
The Grammy Award for Song of the Year is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.
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Harry James
Harry Haag James (March 15, 1916 – July 5, 1983) was an American musician who is best known as a trumpet-playing band leader who led a big band to great commercial success from 1939 to 1946.
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Ivan Rebroff
Ivan Rebroff (born Hans Rolf Rippert; 31 July 193127 February 2008) was a German-born vocalist, allegedly of Russian ancestry, who rose to prominence for his distinct and extensive vocal range of four octaves, ranging "from a low F to a high F, one and a quarter octaves above C".
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Julie Christie
Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1940) is a British actress.
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Karel Gott
Karel Gott (14 July 1939 – 1 October 2019) was a Czech singer, considered the most successful male singer in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic.
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Leitmotif
A leitmotif or Leitmotiv is a "short, recurring musical phrase" associated with a particular person, place, or idea.
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Lennon–McCartney
Lennon–McCartney was the songwriting partnership between English musicians John Lennon (1940–1980) and Paul McCartney (born 1942) of the Beatles.
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Les Compagnons de la chanson
Les Compagnons de la chanson were a French harmony vocal group, formed in 1946 from an earlier group founded in Lyon, France in 1941.
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Maurice Jarre
Maurice-Alexis Jarre (13 September 1924 – 28 March 2009) was a French composer and conductor.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM), is an American media company specializing in film and television production and distribution based in Beverly Hills, California.
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Michelle (song)
"Michelle" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1965 album Rubber Soul.
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Mike Sammes
Michael William Sammes (19 February 1928 – 19 May 2001) was an English musician and vocal session arranger, performing backing vocals on pop music recorded in the UK from 1955 to the 1970s.
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Mrs. Miller
Elva Ruby Miller (October 5, 1907 – July 5, 1997), who recorded under the name Mrs.
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Orietta Berti
Orietta Galimberti (born 1 June 1943), known professionally as Orietta Berti, is an Italian folk-pop singer and television personality.
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Paul Francis Webster
Paul Francis Webster (December 20, 1907 – March 18, 1984) was an American lyricist who won three Academy Awards for Best Original Song, and was nominated sixteen times for the award.
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Peter Alexander (Austrian performer)
Peter Alexander Ferdinand Maximilian Neumayer (30 June 1926 – 12 February 2011), commonly known as Peter Alexander, was an Austrian actor, singer and one of the most popular entertainers in the German-language world between the 1950s and his retirement.
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Poul Bundgaard
Poul Arne Bundgaard (27 October 1922 – 3 June 1998) was a Danish actor and singer.
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Ray Conniff
Joseph Raymond Conniff (November 6, 1916 – October 12, 2002) was an American bandleader and arranger best known for his Ray Conniff Singers during the 1960s.
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Red Steagall
Russell "Red" Steagall (born December 22, 1938) is an American actor, musician, poet, and stage performer, who focuses on American Western and country music genres.
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Rita Pavone
Rita Ori Filomena Merk-Pavone (born August 23, 1945) is an Italian-Swiss soprano singer, actress and showgirl, who enjoyed success through the 1960s.
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Roger Williams (pianist)
Roger Williams (born Louis Jacob Weertz; October 1, 1924 – October 8, 2011) was an American popular music pianist.
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Ronnie Aldrich
Ronald Frank Aldrich (15 February 1916 – 30 September 1993) was a British easy listening and jazz pianist, arranger, conductor and composer.
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RPM (magazine)
RPM (and later) was a Canadian music-industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada.
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Russian Orthodox Church
The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; Russkaya pravoslavnaya tserkov', abbreviated as РПЦ), alternatively legally known as the Moscow Patriarchate (Moskovskiy patriarkhat), is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian church.
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Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a subregion of Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples.
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Sergio Franchi
Sergio Franchi (born Sergio Franci Galli; April 6, 1926 – May 1, 1990) was an Italian-American tenor and actor who enjoyed success in the United States and internationally after gaining notice in Britain in the early 1960s.
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Tereza Kesovija
Tereza Ana Kesovija (born 3 October 1938) is an internationally acclaimed Croatian recording artist.
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That's Life (Frank Sinatra album)
That's Life is a 1966 album by Frank Sinatra, supported by a studio orchestra arranged and conducted by Ernie Freeman.
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The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
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The Brass Ring
The Brass Ring was a group of American studio musicians led by saxophonist and arranger Phil Bodner.
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The Spy Who Loved Me (film)
The Spy Who Loved Me is a 1977 spy film, the tenth in the ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions.
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Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (Југославија; Jugoslavija; Југославија) was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992.
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1966 in music
List of notable events in music that took place in the year 1966.
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See also
1965 compositions
- Éclat
- Canon on a Russian Popular Tune
- Carillons (Williams)
- Chichester Psalms
- Concerto for Horn and Hardart
- Day of Niagara
- Elegy (Corigliano)
- Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints
- It's Gonna Rain
- Lara's Theme
- Maiden Voyage (composition)
- Milonga Del Angel
- Nomos Alpha
- Piano Concerto (Carter)
- Requiem (Ligeti)
- Soli III
- Song cycles (Killmayer)
- Songs and Proverbs of William Blake
- Stop (Stockhausen)
- Symphony No. 2 (Bernstein)
- Symphony No. 8 (Piston)
- The Gentle Rain
- The Poet's Echo
- Tre Canti di Leopardi
- Valeria (Takemitsu)
- Variations on a Korean Folk Song
- Violin Concerto (Bergsma)
Compositions by Maurice Jarre
- Lara's Theme
- Notre-Dame de Paris (ballet)
Film music compositions
- Baby Elephant Walk
- Carmen Fantasie (Waxman)
- Chariots of Fire (instrumental)
- Duel of the Fates
- Fantasia for Strings (Henze)
- French Ballet Class (Gershwin)
- Gabriel's Oboe
- James Bond Theme
- Lara's Theme
- Melody (Skoryk)
- Second Rhapsody
- Star Wars (Main Title)
- Stella by Starlight
- Storm Clouds Cantata
- The Dam Busters March
- The Imperial March
- The Murder
- The River Kwai March
- The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
- Toward the Sea
- Voices of Light
- Warsaw Concerto
Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Chorus
- Anyone for Mozart?
- Bach's Greatest Hits
- Going Baroque
- Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Chorus
- Lara's Theme
- Presenting the New Christy Minstrels
- Up, Up and Away (song)
Songs with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
- 'Tis Harry I'm Plannin' to Marry
- A Certain Smile (song)
- A Very Precious Love
- Anastasia (song)
- April Love (song)
- Baltimore Oriole (song)
- Black Coffee (1948 song)
- Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief
- Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)
- Guns of Navarone (song)
- Here We Come (song)
- Honey-Babe
- Hong Kong Blues
- I Can Do Without You
- I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)
- I'll Remember Tonight
- I'll Walk with God
- Invitation (song)
- Lara's Theme
- Like Young
- Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (song)
- My Kind of Christmas (song)
- Padre (song)
- Secret Love (Doris Day song)
- Spider-Man (theme song)
- The Black Hills of Dakota (song)
- The Deadwood Stage (Whip-Crack-Away!)
- The Green Leaves of Summer
- The Loveliest Night of the Year
- The Shadow of Your Smile
- The Twelfth of Never
- Too Beautiful to Last
- Toys for Tots
- You Are My Love (1953 song)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara's_Theme
Also known as Laura's Theme, Somewhere My Love.