Category: Industry Spotlight

Interview with Alex Ebert

An alternative composer conveys the trance of ambition that marks “A Most Violent Year”

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Interview with Johann Johannsson

An Icelandic experimentalist finds a film music “Theory of Everything.”

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Interview with Gustavo Dudamel

A conductor famed for his passion now creates his own equally dramatic score with the nationalistic charge of “The Liberator”

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Interview with Brian Tyler

One of Hollywood’s hardest working composers blasts away with the August triple threat of “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” “The Expendables 3” and “Into the Storm”

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Interview with Joseph Trapanese

An “alt. sci-fi” composer phones found footage home with “Earth to Echo”

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Interview with Joel McNeely

The composer resurrects his major studio career with “A Million Ways to Die in the West” as he goes gunning with Seth MacFarlane to bring back a classic Hollywood scoring sound

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Interview with Dustin O’Halloran

A composer who sees in colors hears a silently anguished musical relationship of “Breathe In”

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Interview with Edwin Wendler

A composer with a very particular set of skills helps John Ottman bring “Non-Stop” in for a safe score landing

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Interview with Andrew Feltenstein and John Nau

A comedy scoring team is funny without dying when it comes to the songs spoofs and straight-faced scoring of “Anchorman 2” and the Funny or Die gang

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Interview with Mark Orton

The wearer of a rurally eccentric Tin Hat travels on the oddball, and heartfelt road to “Nebraska”

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Interview with Lorne Balfe

A prolific team player declares his own distinctively versatile voice between hunting the enigmatic author “Salinger,” stalking a serial killer across “The Frozen Ground” and taking a spiritual videogame leap “Beyond Two Souls”

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Interview with Laurent Eyquem

A French composer hears his own personal struggles as he scores the story of South Africa’s most controversially iconic woman

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Interview with Frederik Wiedmann

A young composer becomes the newest super-scoring member of DC animation’s Justice League

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Interview with Graham Reynolds

Richard Linklater’s favorite Austin composer plays his relationship worldview for the talk “Before Midnight”

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Interview With Steven Allen Fox

The conductor of the Golden State Pops Orchestra talks about bringing film music to concert life as he prepares to celebrate Varese Sarabande Records’ 35th anniversary

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Interview With Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders

A lasting musical partnership show that February’s a month to die for

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Audio: On the Score with “Star Trek: The Original Series Soundtrack Collection”

Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews the bold men behind La La Land Record’s cosmic release of “Star Trek: The Original Series Soundtrack Collection”

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Audio: On the Score with Fans of Film Music 3

Listen to a special two-part On the Score for FANS OF FILM MUSIC 3 as agent Richard Kraft, journalist Daniel Schweiger and their fellow score enthusiasts converse with thirteen of Hollywood’s composing fan favorites

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Interview with Patrick Doyle

A Scotsman gets the Pixar score he was born to compose

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Audio: On the Score with Harry Manfredini

Guest host Brian Satterwhite interviews Friday the 13th composer Harry Manfredini on the release of the series’ epic box set, signing and screening

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Audio: Fans of Film Music 2

Listen as Hollywood’s top film composers meet with their biggest fans at FANS OF FILM MUSIC 2, a panel event emcee’d by Daniel Schweiger

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Interview With Composer Steven Price

Daniel Schweiger interviews composer STEVEN PRICE on going to ATTACK THE BLOCK

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Interview With Composer Alan Silvestri

Daniel Schweiger interviews Alan Silvestri as a heroic composer throws his mighty brass shield

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Interview With Composer Michael Andrews

Daniel Schweiger interviews Michael Andrews, the alt. comedy composer who scores with the naughty girls of BRIDESMAIDS and BAD TEACHER

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Interview With Composer Patrick Doyle

Daniel Schweiger interviews One of film scoring’s mightiest melodic composers as he proves himself worthy to hold THOR’s hammer

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Interview With Composer Mark Isham

Daniel Schweiger interviews Isham, revealing how he and Robert Redford set up Lincoln’s accused assassins with his score to THE CONSPIRATOR

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Interview With Composer Cliff Martinez

Daniel Schweiger interviews Cliff Martinez, the underworld composer of TRAFFIC and NARC, who’s guilty as charged with LINCOLN LAWYER

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Interview With Composer John Ottman

Daniel Schweiger interviews John Ottman, once profiling THE USUAL SUSPECTS, now finds himself discovering the identity of UNKNOWN

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Interview With Composer Jason Graves

Daniel Schweiger interviews Jason Graves, the man behind the musical terror of DEAD SPACE as he dares to play again in a gore-splattered space city

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Interview With Composer David Arnold

Daniel Schweiger interviews STARGATE’s David Arnold as he hears a new world in NARNIA with THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER

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