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...Coppola seems uncomfortable talking about his family. He is a proud father, but he hesitates to talk about subjects of which he is unsure. He talks about music, and his first love, composing...
...Coppola parallels Gance's thematic conception for the film with his liberal use of the Wagnerian leitmotif: themes suited to a particular idea and varied according to situation. This, he asserts, concurs with Gance's Wagnerian idea of three operas: Napoleon's rise during the French Revolution; the establishment of the Empire and his despotism; his downfall and death...
...Carmine Coppola's background is exclusively music. He attended the Julliard School on a scholarship, and pursued his graduate studies at the Manhattan School, from which he graduated as a Master of Composition. Studying with Schillinger and Porthe, he sought to refine his craft. "I was looking for answers to what I was trying to do: establish a method and style that was mine...
...Coppola began his career in New York. Getting married and starting a family in that same period, he tried to establish in his children the European traditions of culture and education. Soon after his marriage, the family moved to Detroit, where Coppola was first flutist in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. ("That's how Francis Ford was named, but that's a different story.") Then, back to New York, where Coppola worked under Toscannini...
After Napoleon has finished its American tour, Coppola will be able to return to the projects he abandoned to conduct his score. He intends to write the score for Francis Ford's two upcoming movies, The Back Stallion II, and The Little Mermaids, which is based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. "I read that story recently for the first time. I want to capture the dreamy quality of it in my music," he asserts. Also in the works is a second opera, but first he wants to see Escorial performed; Sarah Caldwell has already expressed interest...