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My take on CDs, DVDs, and scores from today and yesterday.
CD Review: The Sea Hawk – The Classic Film Scores of Erich Wolfgang Korngold
The Classic Film Scores recordings of Charles Gerhardt from the 1970s were an essential part of my film music education, unearthing a whole new world of Golden Age film music for my still-developing love.
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CD Review: The Legend of Silkboy
Unless you live in China, you’ve probably never heard or seen THE LEGEND OF SILKBOY. Set amid China’s first attendance at the World Expo in 1851 London, this 3D animated film tells the story
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Book Review: Killing Me Softly – My Life In Music
Why do we read history, biographies, autobiographies and memoirs? To find out more about a particular subject or to learn about it in the first place. (And a little bit of juicy gossip never
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CD Review: Never Let Me Go
Some actors fascinate me so much, I’d watch them read the phone book. Peter O’Toole, for example. There are certain film composers that occupy the musical equivalent for me as well. Rachel Portman is
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CD Review: Lawrence of Arabia
Few films are as majestic or engrossing as David Lean’s LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. With a running time of nearly four hours, the film is filled with indelible cinematic images, memorable set pieces, and a
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CD Review: Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin
We reviewers get some strange albums floating across our desks every now and then. And Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin has to be one of the stranger albums that has crossed my path. While I appreciate
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CD Review: Spartacus
Ever since the beginning of message boards, there have been film music threads about SPARTACUS. With every new announcement of upcoming CDs, someone would invariably (and idiotically) say, “I bet it’s SPARTACUS!” The holy grail
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CD Review: Inception
I stayed away from all the hints and hype about INCEPTION. I didn’t read any early reviews of the film or any interviews with Hans Zimmer before I heard the score so that I
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CD Review: Champion
Fans of Dimitri Tiomkin have reason to celebrate this year. We’ve already seen the premiere of Tiomkin’s score for the 1947 film noir THE LONG NIGHT and the first complete recording of his epic THE ALAMO.
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CD Review: The Last Airbender
The collaboration of James Newton Howard and director M. Night Shyamalan has often brought out the best in the composer, if not the director. And by all accounts, their latest, THE LAST AIRBENDER, based
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