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1. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
(David Shire)

David Shire’s urban jazzy music for this 1974 subway-hijack thriller has been nicely rescued from oblivion by Lukas Kendall of Film Score Monthly who, in his first CD release, serves up a dizzying assemblage ...

2. Last Stand At Saber River
(David Shire)

Shire's past scores - at least those most often linked with his name - have tended to be quiet, understated works which, in this day of Big Budget Blockbusters With Bombastic Bands, have left Shire undeservedly ...

3. All the President’s Men
(David Shire)

... issue of KLUTE, adding ten tracks to the previous boots, and pairing it with an equally splendid unreleased 1970s thriller score, David Shire’s ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN.  Both are must-have soundtracks ...

4. Rick Marvin on Scoring U-571
(Soundtrack/Scoring Session)

... player, until about ‘95 I was still working for David Newman and Maurice Jarre and Tom Newman, a lot of the big guys. It was a great education for me, coming up through the player ranks, because I worked ...

5. Marco Beltrami on Scoring BLADE II
(Soundtrack/Scoring Session)

...  Rudy Koppl: How did you get involved in directing BLADE II? Guillermo Del Torro: It came to me through the Writer / Executive Producer David Goyer and Producer Peter Frankfurt. They had actually ...

6. Alan Williams: That “Other” Williams
(Soundtrack/Interviews)

... would appeal to a wide audience. I began by writing 7 original songs with lyricist David Pomeranz. Since the songs had to be written first so that the animators could animate to the actual singers, the ...

7. David Arnold on Scoring ZOOLANDER and THE MUSKETEER
(Soundtrack/Scoring Session)

David Arnold on Scoring ZOOLANDER and THE MUSKETEER An Interview with David Arnold by Ford A. Thaxton © 2001/2010 Transcribed and edited by Randall D. Larson Originally published in Soundtrack ...

8. Mario Nascimbene: The Innovative Use of Sounds
(Soundtrack/Interviews)

... of the going trends). And the score for a current movie called ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE. Claudio Fuiano: Did David O. Selznick specifically ask you to score A FAREWELL TO ARMS? Rumor has it that ...

9. Howard Shore confronts THE LORD OF THE RINGS
(Soundtrack/Scoring Session)

... with the film. I wanted the same feeling to THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RINGS and to do that I had to collaborate in the same way that I did with David Cronenberg on NAKED LUNCH. Rudy Koppl: How did you ...

10. Danny Elfman on Scoring the Action-Adventure Battlefield
(Soundtrack/Scoring Session)

Danny Elfman on Scoring the Action-Adventure Battlefield An Interview with Danny Elfman by Chris Cutter Written and Transcribed by Rudy Koppl Originally published in Soundtrack Magazine Vol.21/No.82/2002 ...

11. Franz Waxman: An Appreciation
(Soundtrack/Composers)

... and playing piano in a jazz band named the Weintraub Syncopaters (a name which gave Waxman’s later friend and colleague, David Raksin, a great deal of fun to rib him about). Through this, he met Friedrich ...

12. Alex North: Breaking New Ground
(Soundtrack/Interviews)

Alex North: Breaking New Ground A Conversation with Alex North by David Kraft © 1985 Originally published in Soundtrack Magazine Vol.4/No.13/1985 Text reproduced by kind permission of the editor, ...

13. Alexander Courage: The Story of His Life
(Soundtrack/Interviews)

... as an orchestrator only and they include Wilbur Hatch, Adolph Deutsch, Hugo Friedhofer, David Raksin, André Previn, Lyn Murray, Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, Cyril J. Mockridge, Leith Stevens, Alex North, ...

14. Kendall Schmidt: The Subtle Art of ReScoring
(Soundtrack/Interviews)

... cases but the one that comes to mind was having to steal David Foster’s ‘Love Theme from ST. ELMO’S FIRE’ for the LUCAS trailer, and that was ridiculous because ST. ELMO’S FIRE had just come out six months ...

15. Howard Shore on Scoring SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
(Soundtrack/Scoring Session)

... their outward expression in a pale skin and a slight body. Before Howard Shore started his career in movies with David Cronenberg’s horror films, Shore was the musical leader of one hundred and twenty ...

16. Russell Garcia: A Man for All Seasons
(Soundtrack/Interviews)

... film composers from our era were there and David Raksin gave a little talk about Hugo. He said, “All of us here are from the era where film composers could read music.” He got a big laugh for it, because ...

17. The Music Scoring Mixer - Tim Boyle
(Soundtrack/Technicalities)

... & Dennis S. Sands, and George Fenton & Keith Grant - just to name a few. David Newman and Basil Poledouris have also found a trusted collaborator in Tim Boyle, who has handled most of their Los ...

18. Barry Gray: Music with Strings
(Soundtrack/Composers)

Barry Gray: Music with Strings Biographical Essay by Theo de Klerk © 1993/2010 Originally published in Soundtrack Magazine Vol.12/No.47/1993 Text reproduced by kind permission of the editor, Luc ...

19. Pino Donaggio on Scoring RAISING CAIN
(Soundtrack/Scoring Session)

... When I work with less well known directors such as David Schmoeller, I feel free to do what I wish, as I did for TOURIST TRAP and also for CATACOMBS, a recent production in which I was able to use a mix ...

20. Philip Glass: Collaboration
(Soundtrack/Interviews)

... “give and take” process is 1000 AIRPLANES ON THE ROOF, a musical/dramatic work created by Philip Glass, playwright David Henry Hwang, and set designer Jerome Sirlin. In essence, the fundamental plot ...