Music Composed by Ennio Morricone
Rating: ***

Morricone compilations are dime a dozen, but it’s rare that you see one of those compilations advertised in the circulars or sitting prominently in the new release section of your local music chain. I can’t think of another artist who can inspire artists so diverse as Celine Dion, Bruce [...]

Music Composed by Brian Tyler
Rating: ****

Few careers in this industry are more fascinating than the career of a composer who hasn’t quite made it to the top of the A-list. Where the careers of uber-successful composers like John Williams and Hans Zimmer often seem so limited to films with huge prestige and/or franchise [...]

Intrada announced their latest title, this time a non-limited re-issue of Basil Poledouris’ Red Dawn. Here are the details:

In August of 1985, the small San Francisco-based soundtrack record shop, Intrada, made a mighty leap from retailer to record label with its inaugural release: Basil Poledouris’ score to Red Dawn. Now, 22 years later, Intrada [...]

John Debney is a major staple in modern film music about whom you may not know much. In the last four years alone, he’s contributed music to thirty some film and television projects. He works as often… if not more so… than many of today’s superstar composers, but his name rarely winds up on big, [...]

For film music website editors, writers, or journos living outside of Los Angeles, the composer interview is almost always conducted on the telephone. So for an entire night, I kept calling composer James Dooley at home, over and over again. The first few times I was quite nervous, so all I could do was breath [...]

Percepto Records is back! They’ve just announced their latest title, a deluxe edition of The Changeling (“one of the all-time scariest [scores] ever written.” – Cinemusic.net, 2002) with music composed by Rick Wilkins, Ken Wannberg and Howard Blake. Only 1,000 copies of the original ‘02 Percepto album were printed, and they quickly sold [...]

Composer Harry Gregson-Williams’ “Grand Orchestral Suite” from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe will have it’s World Premiere performed by The Colorado Symphony Orchestra. The details:
Harry Gregson-Williams
The Colorado Symphony Orchestra (CSO) will premiere award-winning composer Harry Gregson-Williams’ “Grand Orchestral Suite” from the critically acclaimed The Chronicles of Narnia: The [...]

Music Composed by Trevor Rabin
Rating: **

As “artists” working in the film industry, film composers often get by with a great deal of goodwill. We like these men and women who write our beloved film music, so we’re more likely to accept subpar results and not complain about it. But every so often a composer will [...]

Music Composed by Serge Franklin
Rating: *****

I generally consider myself fairly knowledgeable as far as film music is concerned, but I will freely admit that up until several months ago, the name Serge Franklin was entirely alien to me. Certainly, if someone had told me that he was a film composer whose most famous work was [...]

Music Composed by Edward Shearmur
Rating: *** 1/2

Not being a fan of the romantic comedy genre, there’s few romantic comedy scores I can really get into. Sure, there’s a few Thomas Newman, John Williams, or James Newton Howard romantic comedy scores I can listen to when I feel the urge to pop in something lighter into [...]