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CD Review: X-Men: First Class
I freely admit that I don’t know jack about X-Men. I’ve never read the comics and I only saw the first movie years after its 2000 release. So I went into X-MEN: FIRST CLASS
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CD Review: Pirates of the Caribbean – On Stranger Tides
There’s very little gray area when it comes to how film music fans feel about the PIRATES OF THE CARIBEEAN music. But to complain about the scores at this stage of the game is
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CD Review: Soul Surfer
SOUL SURFER, the true story of teen surfer Bethany Hamilton’s recovery from a shark attack, seems tailor-made for the movies. But not for this viewer. I can only see one loss-o’-limb film (127 HOURS)
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CD Review: Piano Music from the Movies, Vol. 1
Composer Stephen Edwards may not be a household name to many film music fans. But thanks to releases on MovieScore Media, his work is being heard more and more. And if PIANO MUSIC FROM
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CD Review: Rio (Song Album)
I don’t often review song soundtrack albums on this site. There’s a reason why the words “film score” are in the title. But occasionally a song album is so enjoyable and so integral to
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CD Review: Rio
I’ve found this year’s major new scores generally lacking so far, and it has taken me almost four months to find a 2011 score worth writing about. Thankfully, that dry spell has been broken. The
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CD Review: Heroines In Music
As the music industry continues to change, more and more film composers are taking the releases of their music into their own hands. Mark Isham recently created Mark Isham Music and Klaus Badelt is
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CD Review: David Raksin Conducts His Great Film Scores
When lists are made of the pantheon of Golden Age composers, you’ll always find the usual suspects–Max Steiner, Alfred Newman, Franz Waxman, Miklós Rózsa, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, etc. Seldom is David Raksin among them.
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CD Review: Citizen Kane – The Classic Film Scores of Bernard Herrmann
The concluding batch of Sony reissues from Charles Gerhardt’s Classic Film Scores series has been released and the first CD is a gem. CITIZEN KANE – THE CLASSIC FILM SCORES OF BERNARD HERRMANN brings together
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CD Review: Everybody Wants To Be a Cat, Disney Jazz Vol. 1
The beloved songs from Disney films have inspired jazz musicians for years, with Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong, Miles David and John Coltrane all lending their unique talents to interpreting the classic tunes.
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