A Remembrance of CinemaScore

I’m somewhat of an historian, at least with my own life. I’ve kept a journal since December 14, 1985, my senior year in high school, when the events surrounding my first girlfriend and the demise of our relationship were so intriguing I had to write them down. Throughout my journal’s almost eleven years of existence film music has appeared regularly. Often I would mention the CDs I had purchased, not out of some obsessive compulsive need to keep track, but because as we all know, music can play a part in conjuring up nostalgia. You know, hearing a song on the radio that bittersweetly reminds you of a certain junior high school dance where the most unpopular girl in school turned you...

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From Soundtrack Collector’s Notebook to Soundtrack Magazine

The 1970s was a good decade for fanzines i.e. non-professional magazines covering a specialised interest. Despite fanzines usually having a small subscriber base, this limited readership helped gave the readers a sense of fellowship, much a like a cult society, encouraging extremely loyal and enthusiastic readers. Many of these fanzines concentrated on science fiction, a genre which was largely ignored by mainstream publishers. Receiving even less attention by mainstream publishers was film music. In the mid ‘70s few publications had regular film music reviews (exceptions were Films and Filming and Films in Review) but in 1975 Luc Van de Ven, based in Belgium, became something of a...

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