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Musical World Of 'The Great Gatsby'  Fri, May 10, 2013 9:18pm
Story by NPR Staff  Listen to this story on npr.org »  Leonardo
DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan star in Baz Lurhmann's adaptation of
The Great Gatsby — but the new film's music is so bold it may as
well be a character, too.  When movie director Baz Lurhmann got
his hands on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, a 21st
century-Jazz Age mashup was inevitable. Vivid, anachronistic
style is standard in Luhrmann's films: His take on Romeo +
Juliet was a Technicolor fever dream for the MTV generation, and
Moulin Rouge put Verdi's La Traviata through a genre blender.
The music of those films, and of The Great Gatsby, is so bold
and so omnipresent that it might as well be a character. The man
who curated the sound of them all is Gatsby's co-producer and
music supervisor, Anton Monsted. He recently spoke with NPR's
Audie Cornish; Hear the radio version at the audio link and read
more of their co