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9 Favorite Film Scores of 1976
1976…the year I discovered film music. It’s an important year for me. With my purchase of THE OMEN soundtrack, and for the last 35 years, film music became my preferred listening of choice and eventually
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Organized Chaos
“Movies allow and encourage avant garde music that wouldn’t play in the concert hall,” said jazz historian Gary Giddins. When I was covering the “Jazz Score” exhibit last year at the Museum of Modern Art,
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I’ve a Feeling We’re Not In Kansas Anymore
What was Disney thinking?! Odds were stacked against Return to Oz (1985) from the beginning. Imagine the “bizarro world” episode of Seinfeld and you have some idea of the uneasiness provided by this quasi-sequel
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