With over 75 years worth of Academy Award-nominated music to choose from, there are certainly more than nine Oscar-nominated film... Read More
Mark Swed’s Los Angeles Times review of the opening concert of the Pacific Symphony’s American Composers Festival made for some... Read More
In addition to albums devoted to certain composers, Charles Gerhardt compiled a series of albums devoted to various film stars... Read More
From Patty Duke to Dustin Hoffman, Oscar appreciates actors who take on the challenge of playing disabled characters. But few... Read More
THE ADVENTURES OF MARK TWAIN is exactly what the title suggests: an episodic, highly entertaining (and highly fictionalized) “biography” of... Read More
Out of the numerous albums in Charles Gerhardt’s Classic Film Scores series, CAPTAIN BLOOD–CLASSIC FILM SCORES FOR ERROL FLYNN, released in... Read More
In 1917, three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal, reportedly saw a vision of a lady in a cloud. News spread... Read More
My 50th birthday is approaching so I’ve naturally been taking stock of, well, everything. I’ve been looking back at the... Read More
Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, movies used to have main titles that were scored. For... Read More
“The Father of Film Music”… How’s that for a moniker to live up to? I don’t know when or where... Read More