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9 Oscar-Winning Scores Still To Be Released
You’d think there be a month that went by that I didn’t think about the Oscars. Alas, I’m just that shallow. Even though an Academy Award is no indication of quality, the Oscars are
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9 Film Scores That Deserved a Pulitzer
The Pulitzer Prizes, handed out every April, are arguably the most prestigious prizes for journalism, arts and letters, and music in the U.S. Their monetary value is nominal; what matters is the prestige. In
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CD Review: Of Mice and Men/Our Town
Aaron Copland only wrote a handful of film scores so the release of any new film music from this legendary composer is just cause of celebration. And the new Naxos premiere recording of Copland’s
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Propaganda and Peasants
Propaganda and Peasants: Aaron Copland’s Score to THE NORTH STAR Published in Film Score Monthly Online February 2007 On June 22, 1941, Hitler invaded Russia, violating the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939 and foisting the
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DVD Review: The City
Year by year our cities grow more complex and less fit for living. The age of rebuilding is here. We must remould our old cities and build new communities better suited to our needs.
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A Woman of Independent Means
One of the great Oscar-winning performances and one of the great Oscar-winning scores, though few film score fans are familiar with it. THE HEIRESS stars Olivia de Havilland as mousy Catherine Sloper in turn-of-the-century
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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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