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The CinemaScore & Soundtrack Archives
Back in film music fandom’s antediluvian period of the 1970s and 1980s, before the advent of such magazines like Film Score Monthly, Music of the Movies, Film Music, and others, before the Internet and the many film music related web sites and blogs that offer news, views, & interviews – and a much more closely-knitted…
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Don Davis: Music of the Beast
The technological revolution hasn’t helped film music all that much, observes composer Don Davis, lamenting the fate many of his contemporaries have become doomed to suffer. Studios, needing to see quick return on their investments, especially in television, keep decreasing post production time. As new technology narrows the gap between the shooting and airing of…
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Leonard Rosenman: Composer of the Fantastic
For 35 years, composer Leonard Rosenman has been something of a rebel in the Hollywood music community. Refusing to bow to the ever-present pressures to conform and emulate others, he has held on hard to his own composing style. When you hire Leonard Rosenman to score STAR TREK IV or ROBOCOP 2, you get Leonard…
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Shirley Walker on The Others
With its strong emphasis on paranormal abilities of a group of individuals joined together to encounter and contend against proclamatory ghosts, alternative dimensions, and a mysterious, dark force, NBC’s new hourlong TV series, THE OTHERS, is part X-FILES, part MILLENNIUM, and part STIR OF ECHOES. Created by former X-FILES / SPACE: ABOVE AND BEYOND alumni…
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Jon Brion on Scoring Magnolia
Jon Brion’s career path has taken him to many corners of the music business: performer, record producer, session musician. He’s found success with all three at a relatively early age. He’s only in his mid-30s, yet he’s produced Fiona Apple, Aimee Mann, and Rufus Wainwright, three artists whose respective sounds are vastly different. He’s got…
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