Gateway Scores: Edward Scissorhands
Throughout my life there have been a handful of “stepping stone” scores that have turned me into the composing film music-loving-junkie that I am today. Yes, I had the ubiquitous STAR WARS (1977) experience almost identical to Lee’s and a host of others of my generation. My parents’ album, which I listened to as a [...]
Read More →Gateway Scores: Alien
I don’t know if this is a true story. Richard Burton was playing the lead in a comedy on Broadway. Before making his entrance he told the stage manager, “Tonight, I’m gonna make ‘em cry”. He went on and, as promised, he brought the audience to tears when they should have been laughing. With the [...]
Read More →Gateway Scores: West Side Story
When the question came, “What was the score that really pushed you over the edge to get into this field?” I found myself at somewhat of a loss. My gosh, I thought, there are so many, and they all just blur together, I can’t think of any in particular. But no. There is one that [...]
Read More →Gateway Scores: The Lion King
So, I am a musical junkie — I love all kinds of music. I tell you this because music for me is a personal and emotional journey. Whether I’m listening to a Top 40 hit or a film score, the music has to touch me… It has to tug on my emotions. Film music has [...]
Read More →Gateway Scores: Men in Black
When Jai asked us to write a Blog this week on the score that got us into the business, or at least opened our eyes to the industry, I was reminded of something I was once told in an interview I had done with a composer called Andrew Sigler. I keep coming back to this [...]
Read More →Gateway Scores: Chariots of Fire
I could talk about the Chariots of Fire score in the context of Vangelis‘ innovation at the time, about the risk of producing an electronic score when synthesizers were still basically curiosities, about how he regardless managed a deeply emotive and well coordinated work a year before MIDI appeared, and how, in spite of all [...]
Read More →Gateway Scores: The Secret of My Success
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 is what I HAD to do for a living — I sort of froze at the thought of the assignment. “A real composer would talk about John Williams, [...]
Read More →Gateway Scores: Star Wars (Episode IV)
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 well-intentioned genius, brought home the Electric Moog Orchestra LP for my consumption instead (!). I still have that album, by the way. Maybe it was a sign, because I’ve been [...]
Read More →Gateway Scores: What Got You “Hooked”?
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 to talk about: our love of film music. We asked our SCOREcast Contributors to tell us what film score got them hooked into the idea that scoring films might [...]
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