Some of Nostradamus’s prophecies must have rubbed off on me. I just knew that the music for this new film was going to be marvelous. NOSTRADAMUS could have easily been destroyed by an inappropriate score, but thanks to Barrington’s musical expertise my great expectations were fulfilled. This interview took place on October 8 after a…
In a previous interview published a while ago, you mentioned there were 2 films you would have liked to have done. One was HOWARD THE DUCK. Which was the other one? I wanted to do HOWARD THE DUCK until I saw what it was. I don’t remember the other one. I was being considered for…
At the age of 81, David Raksin appears to be a remarkably vital and busy man; he’s the president of The Society for the Preservation of Film Music and a teacher of film music theory and technique at USC. He took time off in October to come to Belgium as a guest of the International…
Music is Fred Karlin’s life: from jazz to symphonic music, from ethnic to electronic music, from composing to writing about it and finally teaching it. Very little of Karlin’s music is available on disc. However, a series of CD’s, focusing mainly on Karlin’s television scores, will be released during the next 2 years. The first…
You have scored 11 out of the 18 James Bond films. Looking back on that period in your career, how do you feel about it? I enjoyed doing it. If you do one movie you get one shot at it. It’s like having 11 shots at the same movie. So it was interesting, developing the…
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