Archive for March, 2008

Rambo

Music Composed by Brian Tyler
Rating: *** 1/2

It really does seem like just the other day, the film score community was reading interview after interview with Brian Tyler concerning his work for Stalone’s then-upcoming Rambo. Yes, he confirmed, he would be using Goldsmith’s theme, and yes, he was a great fan of Goldsmith’s work on [...]


Leonard Rosenman, 1925-2008

From Variety, by Jon Burlingame:

“Leonard Rosenman, a two-time Oscar-winning composer who was credited with helping to modernize film music in the 1950s and ’60s, died Tuesday of a heart attack at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, Calif. He was 83.
Rosenman composed the scores for about four dozen films [...]


35 years later, Oldfield is still totally 'Tubular'

From London’s Times Online, an in-depth look at Mike Oldfield, composer of “Tubular Bells”, one of the most indelible pieces of music used in a film.
“At 19, Mike Oldfield achieved huge success with Tubular Bells – and has lived with the consequences for 35 years.”


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