I wrote an extremely long e-mail to marinshellstone yesterday about how I felt about the score she had provided for me for The Early Mixes. She was very thankful and asked if I could whittle my epic down to something manageable for her website. I took a machete and condensed everything down to the two paragraphs that now appear on her testimonial page. What I ( Read more... )

It was an extremely busy weekend, although it was chock full of (mostly) good stuff.

• The Fellowship of the Ring at Radio City Music Hall was quite amazing. I wish I had been able to go the second night. When I go see The Two Towers next year, I'm going to spring for the more expensive seats. The sound was THUNDEROUS and there were a couple of ( Read more... )

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Governor on the Film Score Monthly Message Board has pointed out these clips of a BBC Proms concert featuring suites from two Oscar-winning scores and two selections from the Bond films.

ALL CLIPS ARE WORK SAFE

Suite from The Lion in Winter
Main Title • Eleanor's Arrival • We're Jungle Creatures

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Suite from Dances With Wolves
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This was posted by George Komar to the same FSM board thread that yielded the "This is Your Life" segment I posted yesterday.
Official Research Channel SynopsisThe Thornton School of Music orchestras celebrated the career of screen composer Elmer Bernstein in an event hosted by KUSC-FM personality Jim Svejda. The tribute concert featured the USC ( Read more... )

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