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August 2019 | Michigan Matinee

Stacy Hoxsey/WKAR-MSU
Michigan Matinee host Jamie Paisley

Thursdays at 7pm on WKAR 90.5 FM | Join host Jamie Paisley for an hour of classic music written for the silver screen. 

Jamie builds each show around a theme, including a monthly request show. Send your requests to MovieMusic@wkar.orgor message 905Classicalon Facebook.

AUGUST EPISODES 

Aug. 1
An hour celebrating the birthday of film composer David Raskin, who got his start working with Charlie Chaplin and who wrote one of the all-time classic themes for Laura. 

Aug. 8
With the women-centric mob flim, The Kitchen, opening this weekend, an hour of other flims with unlikely comic origins, from Ennio Morricone's Danger: Diabolik to Thomas Newman's Road to Perdition.

Aug. 15
Celebrating the life and legacy of the late James Horner with an hour of his music from the anvil-laden Aliens, the romance of Braveheart, and, of course his ever-popular score to Titanic.   

Aug. 22 
A second episode highlighting the classic film noir genre with dark corridors, femme (and homme) fatales, and more smoke machines than at which one can shake a private investigator. 

Aug. 29
Our monthly feature highlighting newly released film scores and a selection of listener request. Email yours to MovieMusic@wkar.org.

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