Dennis McCarthy has scored dozens of Star Trek episodes for every show since THE NEXT GENERATION. He provided the theme for DEEP SPACE NINE and scored the feature STAR TREK GENERATIONS. His music is also heard in dozens of TV-movies and several features, including McHALE’S NAVY (1997) and ALIEN FURY: COUNTDOWN TO INVASION...
Category: Scoring Session
Pino Donaggio on Crawlspace
It's a scary story developed around air conditioning passages. A maniac, played by Klaus Kinski, rents apartments to young, beautiful girls and then kills them. About the music, I must say that it is very strong and uses a lot of electronics in addition to the orchestra. Since my first movie, DON'T LOOK NOW, and recently for BODY DOUBLE...
Maurice Jarre and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
The English release of the soundtrack album to MAD MAX: BEYOND THUNDERDOME undoubtedly caused a few raised eyebrows amongst collectors by the sleeve's inclusion of the mythical track, "Apocalyptic Prelude." This music was Maurice Jarre's cue for the main title credits and was in fact recorded for the film but later dropped in favor...
Basil Poledouris on Scoring Amerika
Among Basil Poledouris' latest scoring assignments was the controversial television mini-series, AMERIKA, which told the story of Americans living in a near future after a peaceable takeover of their country by the USSR. Poledouris wrote some five and a half hours of music for the series, in a schedule so hectic that the final recording session...
Richard Band on Scoring Re-Animator
Richard Band's recent film score for the exceedingly graphic horror/mayhem/dark comedy film RE-ANIMATOR has sparked considerable controversy in the film music community due to its prominent use of a theme obviously derived from Bernard Herrmann's famous PSYCHO Main Title music. Some critics have even gone as far as to cry "plagiarism."
John Williams on The Phantom Menace
What was it like the first time you met George Lucas? What were you impressions of him and of the first STAR WARS movie? I met George approximately in 1976, when he was looking for a composer for STAR WARS. He asked his friend Steven Spielberg who Steven would recommend. I’d just done SUGARLAND EXPRESS and JAWS with Steven, so Steven...
Ennio Morricone on Once Upon a Time in America
Ennio Morricone’s association with filmmaker Sergio Leone goes back to 1964 when he wrote the groundbreaking music for Leone’s equally groundbreaking western, A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS. Leone’s film, and Morricone’s eclectic music, paved the way for the unique style of Italian westerns which has been oft imitated. Morricone has written the music for all of...
Danny Elfman onto the Action-Adventure Battlefield
SPIDER-MAN has broken every box office record by grossing one hundred and fifteen million dollars on its opening weekend as well as being the number one film for two weeks in a row. It is the fastest selling film to ever break the two hundred million dollar mark within two weeks of its release date. SPIDER-MAN’s popularity is mesmerizing...
Bob Cobert on The Winds of War
Bob Cobert’s association with producer-director Dan Curtis began in 1966 when the composer was hired to score Curtis’ new Gothic horror soap opera, DARK SHADOWS. Cobert went on to Score all of Curtis’ subsequent TV movies and features, including genre favorites such as THE NIGHT STALKER (1972) ...