Gateway Scores: The Secret of My Success

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When Jai asked me to talk about my Gateway Score — the score album that really grabbed me as a child and convinced me that scoring films...

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Gateway Scores: Star Wars (Episode IV)

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Strangely enough, it was quite a while before I owned an actual score album for Star Wars. My parents, in a moment of thrifty but...

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Gateway Scores: What Got You “Hooked”?

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As a special SCOREcast theme for this last week of June, you’ll see several posts on the Main Page covering a topic that we all love...

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Son of Weekend Provocation

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This week’s provocation, short and sweet: Soundtrack albums are a waste of time. As usual, this provocation seems just plain wrong...

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Deane Ogden: Michael Jackson, R.I.P.

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As I’m sure you’ve heard, Michael Jackson died today in Los Angeles. If film composers are musicians that put music to film,...

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