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The future has arrived! Well, actually it arrives on March 27th, 2007, when Walt Disney Records releases the soundtrack album for Meet The Robinsons, featuring about thirty-minutes of score by Danny Elfman, and new songs by Rufus Wainwright, Rob Thomas and The All-American Rejects, whose song “The [...]

Music Composed by Mark McKenzie
Rating: *** 1/2

Continuing with their series of fine scores for obscure films, Intrada gave us a last-minute Christmas present last December with the release of Mark McKenzie’s Blizzard. I have not seen the film, but apparently it combines an inspirational ice-skating movie with a Christmas fantasy – two genres that [...]

Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who received a lifetime achievement Oscar here Sunday, is the Mozart of the movie music world, having written hundreds of scores in a glittering 45-year career.
The 78-year-old is perhaps best known for the memorable music that accompanied Sergio Leone’s 1960s spaghetti westerns, each score an instantly recognizable classic.
The Academy of Motion [...]

In a night where legendary composer Ennio Morricone, known for pushing the artform of film music with over 400 film credits to his name, won his first Academy Award, Gustavo Santaolalla won his second, for his Babel score.
Despite Babel’s sparse orchestrations and contributions from other composers – namely Ryuichi Sakamoto – coupled with stiff competition [...]

Music Composed by John Morris
Rating: *** 1/2

It’s been a while since we’ve heard from John Morris. No doubt this frequent Mel Brooks collaborator has spent his years in hibernation feverishly working on the musical version of ‘Blazing Saddles’: Fartsalot! But despite his absence he has given us some stellar work, from the hauntingly [...]

Tadlow Music, the same folks who brought you sterling re-recordings of Dmitri Tiomkin’s The Guns of Navarone and Elmer Bernstein’s True Grit have announced they will release the world premiere recording of the complete Miklos Rosza film score from the 1970 Billy Wilder film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes on April 18th, 100 years [...]

Intrada Announces: Spellbound, Composed by Miklos Rozsa, Conducted by Allan Wilson, Performed by the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Available: April, 2007

In the early 1940s, producer David O. Selznick wanted to create a film with “the healing power of psychiatry” as its core theme…and he wanted Alfred Hitchcock to direct. Based on the 1928 Francis Beeding [...]

After some furious work, the newly redesigned Cinemusic.net is online. This blog will function as an archive of soundtrack news, etc. from the past year. Please visit the new site and say “Hi”.

Music Composed by James Horner
Rating: *** 1/2

An artistic ‘voice’ is a strange thing. Young artists often struggle, feeling the lack of a consistent unifying aesthetic to their art. Their audiences are often invigorated – here is something new, something that escapes the all-too-familiar approaches to representation. And then often it happens that slowly, surely, the [...]

(By Diane Haithman, from Los Angeles Times, February 16, 2007)
Los Angeles Opera and the Théâtre du Châtelet of Paris will co-produce The Fly, a new opera based on director David Cronenberg’s 1986 horror film about a scientist who mutates into a human-fly hybrid, executives of the two artistic entities are to announce today in Paris.
The [...]