When Angelo Badalamenti won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2008 Ghent Film Festival World Soundtrack Awards in Belgium, I could...
Legendary soprano Galina Vishnevskaya will forever be linked with such legendary recordings as Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of...
Back in his days with Bay Cities and Fynsworth Alley, Bruce Kimmel produced albums that no one else would touch,...
It is appropriate that the first entry in the new Discoveries series of posts should have a global influence. Christopher...
In addition to albums devoted to certain composers, Charles Gerhardt compiled a series of albums devoted to various film stars...
There are innumerable issues that can crop up with with re-recordings of old scores. Sure, we can expect the sound...
The original CARS in 2006 is one of Pixar’s weaker efforts. Its box office performance did not nearly match its...
I’ve held off posting a review of Alexandre Desplat‘s score for THE TREE OF LIFE until I had a chance...
Writing about music is difficult. How to put aural sounds into language is a subjective, and often frustrating, if not...
The big surprise in last week’s announcement of the Oscar nominations—at least from a film music standpoint—was the inclusion of Gary...