Interview with Jason Moran
A jazzman marches with MLK for a powerful score that stands up to “Selma’s” oppression
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19Dec2014
07Oct2014
Interview with Justin Hurwitz and Tim Simonec
Two composers keep a mean jazz beat for a hopeful drummer and a soul-crushing teacher from hell in the stunning “Whiplash”
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17Sep2014
Interview with Harry Gregson-Willams
Returning with a bang for filmmaker Antoine Fuqua and star Denzel Washington as a composer who put new-school action on the map for a revitalized “Equalizer”
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13Aug2014
Interview with Max Richter
A composer on the creative edge of film scoring gets seriously animated alongside his “Waltz With Bashir” director Ari Folman
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18Jun2014
Interview with Marco Beltrami
Taking a first class musical seat for a doom-driven train ride through an icy apocalypse – in any filmmaker’s language
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05May2014
Interview with Andrew Hewitt
A composer hears “Double” with his delightfully surreal musical take on Dostoevsky
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11Mar2014
Interview with Stephen Endelman
Stealing musical heart, and a great theme, for a true-life mob dramedy that’s stranger than fiction
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03Feb2014
03Dec2013
Interview with Thomas Newman
The scion of a musical family salutes The Sherman Brothers while putting his own melancholy magic into “Saving Mr. Banks”
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30Sep2013
Interview with Steven Price
A composer steps into an unknowable creative void to conjure a powerfully innovative score for the year’s most lauded sci-fact movie
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06Aug2013
Interview with Matthew Margeson
Playing Hit-Man to Henry Jackman’s Kick-Ass as their dynamic duo returns to the hit themes, and new vigilantes of a home-made superhero franchise
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01Jul2013
Interview with Benjamin Wallfisch
The British composer rocks like a Viking while wielding “The Hammer of the Gods”
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06May2013
Interview with Michael Giacchino
Boldly piloting the Enterprise “Into Darkness” for his second scoring trip with cinematic Classic Trek
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09Apr2013
Interview with Garry Schyman
The composer of “BioShock” rockets from under the sea into the warped cloud city of “Infinite”
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01Apr2013
Interview with Roque Banos
Creating the ultimate horror score for the “most terrifying” remake you’ll ever see
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12Feb2013
Interview with Jeff Rona
The “White Squall” composer once again plays the perils of the ocean depths for “Phantom”
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12Dec2012
The Best Scores of 2012
Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger chooses his top picks, runners-up and composers to watch for 2012
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14Mar2011
Scoring Session With Composer Bear McCreary
Guest writer, David Raiklen interviews Bear McCreary as he conducts 90 piece orchestra comprised of LA’s top performers
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