Audio: On the Score with Alan Menken
Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer ALAN MENKEN, who now transforms a tale as old as time into the new, live action enchantment of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
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13Mar2017
08Mar2017
Interview with Martin Tillman
A cello-driven composer powerfully evokes the tragic reality of “Cries from Syria”
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07Mar2017
Interview with Michael Abels
Hearing ethnically satirical horror while breaking through with “Get Out”
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14Feb2017
Interview with Benjamin Wallfisch
A composer finds an eerily beautiful, waltzing “Cure for Wellness.” Just don’t count the eels
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01Feb2017
Interview with Andrew Lockington
Casting a soaring, romantic spell for an earthbound starboy
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18Jan2017
Interview with Paul Haslinger
A composer of full-throttle genre action finally goes to ask Alice for the first time with the climactic “Resident Evil: The Final Chapter”
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04Jan2017
Interview with Michael Wandmacher
A composer with a talent for furious action now unleashes the “Underworld” saga’s “Blood Wars”
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23Dec2016
Interview with Fernando Velazquez
Hearing the moving music of loss and fear when “A Monster Calls”
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19Dec2016
Interview with Marcelo Zarvos
Musically finding the right fit through August Wilson’s words as Denzel Washington stages “Fences” for the big screen
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13Dec2016
The Best Scores of 2016
Johann Johannsson’s “Arrival” heralds a year of impressive soundtracks The Best Scores of 2016
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05Dec2016
21Nov2016
Audio: On the Score with “Moana’s” Mark Mancina
Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer MARK MANCINA, Disney’s musical navigator for Africa’s “Tarzan” and Alaska’s “Brother Bear,” who now magically sets sail on the Polynesian seas of “Moana”
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17Nov2016
Interview with Lesley Barber
Creating the classical songs of sadness that flow through “Manchester by the Sea”
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15Nov2016
Soundtrack Picks: “SHIN GODZILLA” is the top soundtrack to own for November, 2016
Also worth picking up: FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF, FRIGHT NIGHT, HACKSAW RIDGE, LUKE CAGE, THE NIGHT OF, NOCTURNAL ANIMALS and many more!
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04Nov2016
19Oct2016
05Oct2016
Interview with Mark Isham
Calculating an action hero with a uniquely special set of musical skills for “The Accountant”
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28Sep2016
Audio: “On the Score” with “Deepwater Horizon” composer Steve Jablonsky
Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer STEVE JABLONSKY, who battles the inferno of DEEPWATER HORIZON with a mesmerizing, suspenseful score of surviving an ocean hell on earth
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20Sep2016
Soundtrack Picks: “THE LITTLE PRINCE” is the top soundtrack to own for September, 2016
Also worth picking up CUTTHROAT ISLAND, CHARLES FOX: SEASONS, GENIUS, PETE’S DRAGON, RAMBO, STRANGER THINGS and many more!
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14Sep2016
Interview with Simon Franglen
Teaming with, then resurrecting James Horner for a final, furious round-up of western heroism to co-score “The Magnificent Seven”
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09Sep2016
Interview with Christian Jacob and Tierney Sutton
Two band mates board Air Eastwood for “Sully’s” jazzily distinctive take on a disaster with a happy ending
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08Aug2016
Interview with Christopher Lennertz
Slaying food isn’t musical kid’s stuff in “Sausage Party”
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02Aug2016
26Jul2016
19Jul2016
Soundtrack Picks: “THE ROCKETEER” is the top soundtrack to own for July, 2016
Also worth picking up CAFÉ SOCIETY, JESSICA JONES, THE LEGEND OF TARZAN, MADE IN FRANCE, NIGHTHAWKS, SENSORIA, VICTOR YOUNG AT PARAMOUNT and many more!
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12Jul2016
Interview with Alex Somers
Finding the Zen of nature versus nurture with “Captain Fantastic”
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30Jun2016
Interview with Nathan Whitehead
A composer who continues to vote for The Purge on “Election Night”
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21Jun2016
Interview with Robert McDowell and Andy Hull
Vocally re-animating a score for “Swiss Army Man”
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14Jun2016
Interview with Cliff Martinez
Continuing a twisted collaboration with Nicolas Winding Refn as they take a retro-groovy catwalk to hell with “The Neon Demon”
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31May2016
May Soundtrack Picks
’10 CLOVERFIELD LANE’ is the top soundtrack to own for May, 2016. Also worth picking up CHINATOWN, I AM WRATH, REVELATION, THE SHAWSHANK REDEMOPTION and many more!
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