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1. Alan Silvestri on Scoring WHAT LIES BENEATH

From ROMANCING THE STONE to the new Dreamworks motion picture WHAT LIES BENEATH that stars Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer, Silvestri and Zemeckis have forged a working relationship that can be compared to that of Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann or Steven Spielberg and

Friday, 01 July 2011 | 1200 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report

2. Alf Clausen on Scoring THE SIMPSONS

I was given a directive when I started the series that THE SIMPSONS is not a cartoon, but a drama where the characters are drawn, and that the emotional content of the score should...

Monday, 28 July 2008 | 2682 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report

3. Andy Garfield’s Ice Cold Music for FROZEN

FROZEN’s restrictive setting and few characters gave Garfield’s music the added responsibility to enhance the size and, especially, the psychological scope of the story, as the characters come to face their dire circumstances quite differently.

Monday, 02 May 2011 | 665 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report

4. Bartosz Chajdecki on DAYS OF HONOUR

Bartosz Chajdecki started composing at the age of 12, inspired and motivated by Zbigniew Preisner...

Monday, 31 January 2011 | 801 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report

5. Basil Poledouris on FLESH & BLOOD

Basil Poledouris believes that film composers “collide” with films on certain occasions. CONAN THE BARBARIAN is an example he cites as this kind of career collision: it was the right film for him to score at that particular moment, it gave him the right kind of inspiration...

Thursday, 27 March 2008 | 1782 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report

6. Basil Poledouris on Scoring LONESOME DOVE

Simon Wincer’s eloquent, character-driven western saga, LONESOME DOVE, remains one of the best television mini-series ever broadcast. The brilliant dialog and characterizations from Larry McMurtry’s grand, sweeping novel were translated faithfully and brought to life...

Monday, 03 November 2008 | 1986 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report

7. Basil Poledouris: Meeting Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles

CROCODILE DUNDEE IN L.A. reunited composer Basil Poledouris with director Simon Wincer, for whom Poledouris wrote one of his most profound and eloquent scores, 1988’s LONESOME DOVE. The director and composer collaborated on another Western, the Tom Selleck vehicle, QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER, as well as HARLEY DAVIDSON AND THE MARLBORO MAN and FREE WILLY.

Tuesday, 15 March 2011 | 723 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report

8. Bill Whelan on Scoring DANCING AT LUGHNASA

With the international success of RIVERDANCE behind him, Irish composer Bill Whelan’s future in theater music seems assured. With successful film scores such as SOME MOTHER’S SON and DANCING AT LUGHNASA...

Saturday, 01 November 2008 | 1530 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report

9. Bob Cobert on THE WINDS OF WAR

Bob Cobert’s association with producer-director Dan Curtis began in 1966 when the composer was hired to score Curtis’ new Gothic horror soap opera, DARK SHADOWS. Cobert went on to Score all of Curtis’ subsequent TV movies and features, including genre favorites such as THE NIGHT STALKER (1972).

Friday, 25 April 2008 | 2344 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report

10. Bruce Broughton on Scoring LOST IN SPACE

When New Line Cinema determined to make a big screen version of the popular ‘60s TV show, LOST IN SPACE, they originally looked to John Williams as a likely candidate to score it.

Saturday, 16 May 2009 | 997 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report