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1. The Red Canvas
(James Peterson)

... collectors world wide. This is like a breath of fresh air in 21st Century film scoring, and the composer James Peterson should be congratulated on re-kindling the flame of hope within the film music arena, ...

2. Mark Mckenzie on Scoring THE DISAPPEARANCE OF GARCIA LORCA
(Soundtrack/Scoring Session)

... father really is. The film jumps back and forth in time. Edward James Olmos plays the powerful government man who’s instrumental in Lorca’s death; later he becomes somebody who’s is very passionate about ...

3. Christopher Frayling - Sergio Leone: Sergio Leone: Something to Do with Death
(Reviews/Books)

... did so by one of two means – either the James Bond music of John Barry or the Italian Western music of Ennio Morricone reached through our rock and pop musical upbringings and opened the doors to a bold ...

4. John Frizzell: From Slimy Aliens to Comic Gangsters
(Soundtrack/Scoring Session)

... and cable film assignments and a noteworthy score for BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD DO AMERICA, he got a plum assignment completing the score for DANTE’S PEAK, which James Newton Howard did not have time to do. ...

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

... put out inquiries to John Williams and James Horner, independently of Dean and Roland. One of the producers had worked with John on SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, so he’s going, “look, we can get John Williams - ...

6. James Horner Scores A BEAUTIFUL MIND
(Soundtrack/Scoring Session)

The Emotional Touch: James Horner Scores a Beautiful Mind An Interview with James Horner, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer by Rudy Koppl © 2001/2010 Originally published in Soundtrack Magazine Vol.20/No.80/2001 ...

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

... kind. Director James Whale, an admirer of Waxman’s LILIOM music, invited the composer to score his new film, 1935s THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN. The result was one of the most revered scores in movie ...

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

... heard of James Horner? Alex North: I read an interview with him in the magazine you sent me, but I don’t know his scores. I don’t doubt that he’s a talented guy. Harve Bennett (who produced RICH MAN ...

9. The Alamo re-recording
(MyBlog/New Releases)

... were recorded for Luc Van De Ven’s PROMETHEUS RECORDS, produced by James Fitzpatick, proprietor of Tadlow Music, conducted by Nic Raine. (More details to follow when a release date is set)  ...

10. John Williams: Classical Guitarist
(Soundtrack/Interviews)

... we saw eye to eye. One or two films after that I did for him he continued to do that. One that I particularly like, and not a lot of people know, was THE BOOST, with James Woods as a drug addict. It’s ...

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

... count. I guess it worked out for the others involved but I was very disappointed. My total contribution ended up being the addition of some “resolution” chords to the end of a James Horner cue that they’d ...

12. Stanley Myers on Scoring HOMO FABER
(Soundtrack/Scoring Session)

... Widgets</A></NOSCRIPT>Matthias Büdinger: Another famous literary source you wrote the score for is James Joyce’s ULYSSES. Do you remember the movie? Stanley Myers: That was directed by Joseph ...

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

Russell Garcia: A Man for All Seasons A Conversation with Russell Garcia by Matthias Büdinger © 1992 Originally published in Soundtrack Magazine Vol.11/No.44/1992 Text reproduced by kind permission ...

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

... have come to prefer specific engineers. Notable collaborations of this kind which have sprung up in recent years include Jerry Goldsmith & Bruce Botnick, James Horner & Shawn Murphy, Alan Silvestri ...

15. Gerard Schurmann: Music for Hammer, and others
(Soundtrack/Interviews)

... in St. James’ Place, and my remuneration consisted of ten guineas in cash plus all I could eat and drink at the club after the event. I vividly remember, for example, a musical marathon to accompany ...

16. The Alamo Remembered
(Soundtrack/Analyses)

... on a holiday with his wife, chewing the rich fat of American history with screenwriter James Edward Grant, and approaching unforeseen status as an incomparable box office draw after having turned forty ...

17. Paul Verhoeven on Working with Basil Poledouris
(Dossier/The Poledouris Files)

... temp music of James Horner. I used STAR TREK 2 and one of his older Roger Corman movies. When I came to the United States I went to Medavoy and said, “What about using James Homer; I used his temp track?” ...

18. Henry Mancini: A Gifted Musician and a Gentleman
(Soundtrack/Interviews)

... I’ve always wondered why there was never any album with Julie Andrews (apart from the films you did together). Henry Mancini: I have only done albums with three people, James Galway, Luciano Pavarotti ...

19. James Peterson: A Red Classic Canvas
(Soundtrack/Interviews)

James Peterson: A Red Classic Canvas An Interview with James Peterson by John Mansell © 2009 With so many of the established film music composers passing away in recent years collectors of ...

20. Carl Davis Unbound: Monsters over the Rainbow
(Soundtrack/Interviews)

... though it’s financed totally from America. The film is about the life of Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond novels. In some ways Fleming’s life parallels the things he wrote in his novels - he was ...