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20th Century Fox Fanfare: A family legacy

Twenty Thousand Hertz

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The Fanfares by Darryl Alfred

Fox Film was in financial trouble and ended up merging with 20th Century Pictures. After the merger, Alfred recorded a higher quality version of the Fanfares. They spent hours figuring out where to put mics, what instruments should play. And yet the orchestra sounds so good. It's heralding something that I think is what makes it so exciting.

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