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75 Years of Oscar Scores Redux
What has gone unnoticed in this frenzied and long awards season is this year marks the 75th anniversary of the Academy Awards for Music, which were first handed out in 1935 for the films
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Limited Edition Reviews
As I’ve stated before, one of the most frustrating aspects of today’s veritable cornucopia of film music collecting is the frenzied free-for-all that occurs as a new limited edition title is announced. Many of
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The Sizzler Effect
What comes to mind when you think of the Sizzler? The “all you can eat” salad bar, right? Whether at the Sizzler or elsewhere, what once started out as a healthy alternative or addition to your
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Readers Poll – Top 10 Film Scores of 2009
Over 150 people voted and over 1,000 votes were cast. Now the results of the first annual readers poll for the Top 10 film scores of the year are in. (Well, actually it’s the
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Top 10 Film Scores of 2009
I love lists. I love making theme, I love reading them, I love their pathetic attempts to keep me organized while I ignore the “to do” topics that are on them. But nothing is
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All I Want for Christmas in Film Music
If you read my post on 9 Favorite Holiday Film and TV Scores, then you know I have issues with the holiday season. Yet I like to get presents just as much as the
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The Digital Future?
Will 2009 go down as the year in which film music finally rounded the corner and turned its back on the once almighty CD? For new film music, the signs certainly point in that
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The ABC’s of Film Music
A is for the Academy Awards, my initial education into the world of film music B is for Best Original Score C is for the almighty CD, forever may it reign D is for
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Giving Thanks Through Film Music
This week has not exactly gone as planned. On Monday, I went to the Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center to do some research for my next Gold Rush column for Film Score Monthly
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Workers Unite?
Tonight is an informational meeting in Burbank between The Association of Media Composers and Lyricists and the Teamsters Local 399 with the goal of organizing and creating a union for composers. The group’s organizing
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