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
When it comes to writing marches, you’d think every composer would throw up their hands in defeat following in the... Read More
Producer David O. Selznick, who had recently gone through a “successful” bout of therapy (not at all common in the... Read More
A DOUBLE LIFE (1947) shows that jealousy makes monsters of us all. Especially when you’re Ronald Colman and your latest... Read More
I just recently finished Film Score Monthly’s massive, and massively entertaining, 15-CD Miklós Rózsa Treasury (1949-1968). So who better to... Read More
Ah, the time-honored tradition of “desert island discs”–the discs, in our case the film scores, you simply can’t live without. Forget... Read More
In 1959, M-G-M’s future was riding on the success or failure of the studio’s $15 million remake of the 1925... Read More
From the 1920s through the 1960s, certain bigger films played what were known as roadshow engagements. Roadshows would open in a... Read More
With the release of Jerry Fielding’s THE WILD BUNCH, it’s the end of the line for the Film Score Monthly... Read More