Shirley Walker, composer, conductor has died. She was 61.
This is truly sad news. And very personal for me. Many years ago I had the pleasure of talking with Shirley, and creating a website for her dedicated to her film music. Since then she made maintaining the site a pure [...]

Music Composed by Alexandre Desplat
Rating: ****

Ever since American audiences discovered his lavish blend of romanticism and minimalism in The Girl with a Pearl Earring, the Hollywood career of André Desplat (French, I believe for “André of Splat”) has been on the rise. Many might call this a mixed blessing, of course, as his mainstream projects [...]

Four-time Emmy award-winning composer Laura Karpman (EverQuest® II, Steven Spielberg’s TAKEN) has written the original music for Untold Legends Dark Kingdom, the action-RPG launch title for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system. The fantasy score was recorded in Prague with the FILMharmonic Orchestra and Choir, with Karpman conducting. The lyrics sung by the choir were adapted [...]

It’s new release Tuesday! Now available: Harry Gregson-Williams’ broiling electronic Deja Vu (Hollywood Records / on iTunes)… Lakeshore Records has a handful of new titles: Various artists comprise Deck The Halls (with “Silent Night” performed by… The Deck The Halls Holiday Orchestra)… Michael Suby’s chiller The Zodiac (no not the David Fincher movie [...]

Excerpt from: “Blow it Up and Do It All Over Again”Published in the New York Times, November 13, 2006By Laura M. Holson
In October, ago Mr. Bruckheimer attended a music meeting for “Déjà Vu” at a studio in Venice. The meeting was to begin at 4 p.m., but he and Mr. Scott were late. The producer [...]

“I loved Lord of the Rings, but I think Peter Jackson fumbled the ball a little bit there because he had so much good fuckin’ Led Zeppelin and he decided to go with the Howard Shore classical music. Which I’m sure JRR Tolkien would have approved of, but I wanted the rock! That’s a fuckin’ [...]

Sony/BMG has samples from every track of their upcoming (December 5th) release of Danny Elfman’s Charlotte’s Web. Listen to them here.
Also… In select theatres today is Night of The Living Dead 3D, with music by composer Jason Brandt. Lakeshore Records released the NOTLD 3D score album on iTunes and in stores on October [...]

Basil Poledouris, popular and prolific film composer, has died. News of his passing has first appeared at Film Score Monthly’s message board, via publisher Lukas Kendall.
Basil was 61. He penned some of the most enduring film scores of modern times, including Conan The Barbarian, Flesh and Blood, Farewell To The King, [...]

Varese has announced their latest club titles. And they are:
Birdman Of Alcatraz, Music by Elmer BernsteinLimited Edition of 3000 copies
Runaway: The Deluxe Edition, Music by Jerry GoldsmithLimited Edition of 2000 copies
Lucas, Music by Dave GrusinLimited Edition of 2000 copies
Seven Cities Of Gold / The Rains Of Ranchipur, Music by Hugo FriedhoferLimited Edition of 1000 [...]

Intrada Announces:
Eloise at The Plaza / Elouise at ChristmastimeMusic by Bruce Broughton Intrada Signature Edition ISE1009
Eloise is a precocious six-year-old girl who lives at the New York Plaza Hotel. She roams its halls day in and out in search of adventure. In 2002 and 2004 Handmade Films brought ELOISE to the small screen [...]