Music
The lively musical score was composed by Alfred Newman, Fox's longtime musical director, and was nominated for an Academy Award. Newman recorded excerpts from the musical score for 78 RPM records (reportedly at his own expense), and donated his royalties to the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. years after he re-recorded the score in stereo for Capitol Records. In 1973, Charles Gerhardt conducted a suite from the film for RCA Victor's tribute album to Newman, Captain from Castile; the quadraphonic recording was later reissued on CD.
Newman bestowed the rights to the film's spectacular march to the University of Southern California to use as theme music for the school's football team. Popularly known as "Conquest," the march is regularly performed by its marching band, the Spirit of Troy as a victory march. It is also the corps anthem of the Boston Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps, which has performed the piece in their field show frequently in the past and continues to incorporate it occasionally in their field shows of the present.
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