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My take on CDs, DVDs, and scores from today and yesterday.
CD Review: The Film and TV Music of Christopher Gunning
If you’re a fan of British TV and film, you’re probably already familiar with the music of Christopher Gunning. But arguably Gunning’s biggest success came in 2007 with his BAFTA-winning score for the Edith
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CD Review: Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmund Rostand’s CYRANO DE BERGERAC has smelled like a winner since its premiere in 1897. The story of the unattractive poet and soldier with a rather large nasal protuberance who speaks his love for
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CD Review: The King’s Speech
As a longtime Oscar junkie, I live for the end of the year and the glut of Oscar bait that floods the multiplexes. The bait is no indication of quality but it usually means
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CD Review: Tangled
If I had my way, Alan Menken would score every animated film. He writes the kind of animated score I like–a traditional Disney “sound” mixed with a little Broadway razamataz. You know exactly what
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CD Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1
It’s no secret that I have no great affection for the Harry Potter films. From the very beginning, I’ve felt that the cinematic counterparts never matched the magic and wonder of J.K. Rowling’s prose.
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CD Review: Lost Horizon – The Classic Film Scores of Dimitri Tiomkin
The final reissued album in the Charles Gerhardt Classic Film Scores series (at least until March) is LOST HORIZON–THE CLASSIC FILM SCORES OF DIMITRI TIOMKIN. Though there were at least two albums in the
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CD Review: Captain Blood – Classic Film Scores for Errol Flynn
Out of the numerous albums in Charles Gerhardt’s Classic Film Scores series, CAPTAIN BLOOD–CLASSIC FILM SCORES FOR ERROL FLYNN, released in 1975, was the final album devoted to a particular star. While some of the
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CD Review: Gone With the Wind – Max Steiner’s Classic Film Score
In his Classic Film Scores series LPs devoted to Golden Age film music, Charles Gerhardt only produced one album devoted to a single score–Max Steiner‘s classic GONE WITH THE WIND, released in 1974. Of all
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CD Review: Casablanca – Classic Film Scores for Humphrey Bogart
In addition to albums devoted to certain composers, Charles Gerhardt compiled a series of albums devoted to various film stars as part of his Classic Film Scores. The second album (the first was devoted
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CD Review: Captain from Castile – The Classic Film Scores of Alfred Newman
If you’ve read this blog for any reasonable amount of time, you already know of my love for Alfred Newman. Newman’s music speaks to me in a way that no other composer–Golden Age or
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