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It Is Written
From the moment SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE won its first critic award, it was written that it would follow a charmed path from the crowded streets of Mumbai to the steps of the Kodak Theatre. With
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I’ve a Feeling We’re Not In Kansas Anymore
What was Disney thinking?! Odds were stacked against Return to Oz (1985) from the beginning. Imagine the “bizarro world” episode of Seinfeld and you have some idea of the uneasiness provided by this quasi-sequel
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Maurice Jarre (1924-2009)
Three-time Academy Award-winner Maurice Jarre died today at age 84 from cancer. And it is his music that we celebrate in remembrance. Jarre had his first international hit with his Oscar-winning score for Lawrence
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Shark Bait, Oo-ha-ha!
Forget Neil Armstrong. John Williams‘ “one small step” (or more accurately half-step) was a giant leap…at least for film music. The simple, yet effective, two-note motif Williams employed in JAWS invokes terror from the opening
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Sell Crazy Someplace Else, We’re All Stocked Up Here
Apparently bidders at Bonhams auction house earlier this week agreed with Jack Nicholson’s Mevil Udall from 1997′s As Good As It Gets. Bernard Herrmann’s 20-page autographed score from Psycho failed to sell for the
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On the Right Track
Depending on who you ask, the CLICK TRACK was invented in the 1930′s by the “Father of Film Music” Max Steiner, or Carl Stalling or Scott Bradley to accompany their memorable animation scores. However,
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We Have Created Enchantment
The Music of A Streetcar Named Desire Published in Film Score Monthly Online May 2006 To step aboard A Streetcar Named Desire is to take an emotional and musical journey. Tennessee Williams’ poetic
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You Have Cheated Me
“You Have Cheated Me”: Aaron Copland’s Compromised Score to The Heiress Published in Film Score Monthly May/June 2005 Aaron Copland arrived in Hollywood in 1938, and in little more than a decade he’d
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Following In Waxman’s Foot-steppes
The highlight of Franz Waxman’s Oscar-nominated score for TARAS BULBA (1962) is the thrilling “The Ride to Dubno.” As Yul Brynner and his fellow Cossacks ride onto the steppes to meet an unsuspecting Polish army
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