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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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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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