Like children, should film music be “seen and not heard”? Many people denigrate film music, saying it takes them out...
Mark Swed’s Los Angeles Times review of the opening concert of the Pacific Symphony’s American Composers Festival made for some...
No, it’s not me. The Associated Press has reported that a 20-page autographed manuscript of Bernard Herrmann’s classic 1960 score...
Depending on who you ask, the CLICK TRACK was invented in the 1930s by the “Father of Film Music” Max...
Three-time Academy Award-winner Maurice Jarre died today at age 84 from cancer. And it is his music that we celebrate...
On his 80th birthday, we celebrate the often overlooked career of one of my favorite film composers—André Previn. Previn has found...
According to the online dictionary, die.net, the GOLDEN AGE is “the first and best age of the world, a time of...
No two words can send film music fans into apoplectic seizures faster than the phrase “TEMP TRACK.” What is a...
Mom: What do you want for Easter?Me: The soundtrack for CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND!(Blank stare from Mom.)Mom: What’s...
While you may fly over the rainbow when you think of the classic songs of Harold Arlen and E.Y. “Yip”...