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  • Quick Takes

    Time for just three fairly quick little reviews this week.First up is music for the comic book series Spooks, a military horror comic book series that was turned into a graphic novel. The four issues appeared together i…

  • JW at Pops

    I know a concert review is a little silly since you can't go to the concert yourself. But for John Williams fans I thought I would share a little from Film Night at the Pops last week. The concert was unusual in that i…

  • An Indy musical preview

    Not that by now there are too many secrets left to reveal in the new Indiana Jones film, but here are a few thoughts about the new John Williams score in the film. (More on the CD itself later in the month.) If you hav…

  • Some Bits and Pieces

    It has been another of those busy weeks with new music on the player for review and announcements of new re-issues left and right. Intrada has continued to announce scores by some of the lesser known greats of the 1970s…

  • Fiedler-ing Around

    As a kid growing up in North Dakota, getting to hear any kind of classical music was a bit hard, there was no public radio station, but plenty of instrumental type music on the radio, we did have the beginningf os public…

  • HB: John Williams

    Today is the birthday of one of the most famous American film composers of our time, John Williams. I wrote a little overview of favorite scores last year for this blog so no need to rehash all that again. Recently I p…

  • February Surprise?

    Posted over on one of the John Williams websites (non-composer owned) is a notice that Film Score Monthly will be announcing their latest large box set. The "Blue box" is supposedly a completely remastered and presented…

  • Best of November (New to the Library)

    Ok, so where the heck did November go? It was a short month to begin with, but with a little vacation and a conference thrown in, I am just now getting back to a normal schedule, thanks to a great snowstorm. You know t…

  • Midway Anniversary

    Today marks the 65th Anniversary (sorry folks my math was off when I wrote this last week) of the Battle of Midway, often considered the most important naval battle of WWII. The three day battle was memorialized in a 19…

  • "New" Top 5

    (Well, I had written this yesterday but just as I went to post it our internet connection went down. So here it is.)It has been a somewhat slow month this past May but here are 5 of my favorite "new" to the library here…

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