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By SCO Staff / October 6, 2009 / Uncategorized / Comments
#2 – AMERICAN BEAUTY(Thomas Newman) A second-generation member of Hollywood’s preeminent musical dynasty, composer Thomas Newman weighs in on our countdown with the #2 most influential score of the past decade: AMERICAN BEAUTY. AMERICAN BEAUTY score was nominated for an Academy Award, but lost to John Corigliano’s “The Red Violin”. Perhaps just what kind of [...]
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By SCO Staff / August 6, 2009 / Composition / Comments
Over the past several years, a new word has entered the film music lexicon threatening the functional traditions the craft of scoring was built upon. This indiscriminate battle cry was practically nonexistent during the first hundred years of film music. Today, it’s a word carrying a vulgar weight amongst filmmakers and audiences alike. This is [...]
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