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Review: New Guitar Film Music CD!

Last year, Gregg Nestor released a surprisingly engaging album of film music, and a few concert miniatures, by Miklos Rosza. The disc drew on the composer’s wealth of thematic ideas that laid well in guitar arrangements…
Review: Film Music 2008 (Silva)

Somehow I still have not tracked down Silva's first "year-in-review" compilation disc from 2007, but the latest compilation is well worth seeking out. All but one of the 12 tracks on the disc were conducted by producer …
Great New History of Film Music Book

If you can only buy one film music book, make it Mervyn Cooke's A History of Film Music (published by Cambridge University Press)" target="_new"> . Mervyn Cook’s 562 page overview of the history of film music is a n…
General Thoughts: 41 Years of Film Music, Part 2

Yesterday, I wrote about the many film scores that stood out to me from childhood through high school and college up through 1990 (just to round of the decade). Now a few scores that made me take notice at the time fro…
General musings: 41 years of Film Music, part 1

I've caught up mostly with the pile of CDs for review here. Lots of traffic on the blog, so thanks to all you peekers out there.Celebrating a birthday Saturday, and so with that in mind, I decided to list here a few fav…
Film Music in the Mainstream

I was wondering what film music might have entered into the main stream of the average listener. So thought this might be a good time to ponder this question. The themes or pieces should be something likely to be heard…
General Film Music thoughts

The months from late February into April are usually a real drought for film music fans. Most of the films early on were released late in a wider audience, or there are the typical diversionary genre films: romantic com…
Inside Film Music

Not much going on today, thank goodness! Later tonight it's the final game of the NCAA which I will probably stay up to watch as it should be a great game. Then my sports fanatacism can go dormant again until next year…
The Number 23 (Score Review)

The Number 23 is the new Joel Schumacher thriller starring Jim Carrey which opens next week. The film deals with a book that begins to have psychological, and later, real consequences for Carrey’s character and perhap…