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<title>John Williams</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Unquestionably one of the major film composers of our time, and a talented conductor for the prestigious Boston Pops as well. Although he's written dozens of blockbuster film scores, his closest association is probably with Steven Spielberg. Williams has written the music to nearly all of Spielberg's films, composing and conducting his scores to sync with the action down to the millisecond. Williams has mastered many aspects of classical composition, from the Stravinsky-like scurrying of the Jawas in <I>Star Wars</I> to Wagnerian attachment of themes to specific events and characters. Who can forget the dread evoked by the two note motive from <I>Jaws</I>, or Darth Vader's theme music? A multiple Academy Award winner, Williams has been nominated for the top prize over forty times so far -- and he has proven his ability to enhance the emotion of a scene with broad or subtle orchestral sweeps.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Steve Jablonsky</title>
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<title>John Barry</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:38:15 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Not only is John Barry one of the greatest film composers to emerge from the 1960s (when he was also a pop star), he may be the first composer to achieve fame on the level of a Hollywood star. Forever linked to James Bond films and the swinging London of the '60s, Barry continues to be an excellent and diverse artist who excels at brooding melancholia and atmospheric jazz beyond the <I>Austin Powers</I>-style grooviness he's so often associated with. Besides winning numerous Academy Awards for scores to such movies as <I>The Lion In Winter</I>, <I>Born Free</I> and <I>Dances With Wolves</I>, he's developed a cult of female fans enraptured with his richly romantic scores to <I>Out of Africa</I> and, in particular, <I>Somewhere in Time</I>. Interestingly, Barry has said that he prefers these brooding pieces to the sweeping theme of <I>Born Free</I>, his most popular recording outside of the Bond theme (which was originally credited to another composer). Barry still makes modern classical and jazz music when he's not working on film scores.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Howard Shore</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:28:15 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Howard Shore was already starting to build his reputation as a film composer when he stepped out of his role as <I>Saturday Night Live</I>'s first musical director in 1980 (his theme song is still used to this day). Shore was highly respected for his work in horror, suspense and black comedy, making him a natural fit for extended collaborations with such maverick, free-thinking directors as David Cronenberg, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme and David Fincher. He has amassed a large, intriguing body of work over the decades and retained the regard of his Hollywood peers while gaining the admiration of hobbits, elves and wizards after he scored all the movies in the <I>Lord of the Rings</I> trilogy.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Danny Elfman</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:27:14 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Danny Elfman and Tim Burton go together like Milk Duds and popcorn. But before Elfman was scoring movies for a grown up goth kid with his own production company, he was the leader of Oingo Boingo. What most of his fans don't know is that even Oingo Boingo was originally created for the sole purpose of a film soundtrack. Back in 1980, his brother Richard Elfman had made a film entitled <I>The Forbidden Zone</I> and had asked Danny to provide a soundtrack. He formed a band called the Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo just for that purpose. The band engendered a cult following of new wave kids and cranked out some successful albums before Tim Burton hired Elfman to score his 1985 film, <I>Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.</I> Elfman went on to work with Burton as well as with various other soundtrack projects including the theme song for <I>The Simpsons</I>.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Ennio Morricone</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:04 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Undoubtedly one of the most skilled, prolific and imitated film composers in history. His spaghetti western themes from the 1960s have become so ingrained in popular culture that one need only strike an outlaw pose before someone in the room starts whistling the theme from <i>The Good, the Bad and the Ugly</i>. Though most often identified for the grand, heroic gestures of this period, he certainly did not limit himself to this style. From the eerie electronics of <i>The Thing</i> to the cross-cultural orchestration of <i>The Mission</i>, Morricone has shown himself capable of an absolutely remarkable breadth of expression. His forays outside of film music, including trumpet work in seminal improvisation ensemble Nuova Consonanza as well as numerous Avant-Garde and experimental compositions, further entrench his place among this century's most fascinating and important composers.
- Doug Russell]]></description>
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<title>James Horner</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:07:04 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Academy Award-winning film composer began his career scoring Roger Corman's productions in the 1970s. While <I>Humanoids From the Deep</I> and <I>Battle Beyond the Stars</I> are fun and all, Horner soon went on to much bigger things -- the '80s found the composer to be a very hot commodity indeed. His scores to <I>Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan</I> and <I>Aliens</I> were huge successes, showcasing his bombastic dramatic sense and epic, sweeping style. Recent years have brought <I>Braveheart</I> as well as his most well-known score to date, <I>Titanic</I>. Critics often bash him for his notorious tendency to borrow from past works, something he does more than even, perhaps, John Williams. Originality aside, however, Horner's music has a knack for keeping the audience teetering on the edge of their seats, and that's something no one can complain about.
- Doug Russell]]></description>
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<title>Thomas Newman</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:28:26 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Randy "short people got no reason to live" Newman is a household name. No doubt about it. But did you know that darn near every member of his family has achieved a considerable amount of success in show biz? In fact, over the last 10 to 15 years film score composer Thomas Montgomery Newman has probably worked on more A-list blockbusters than Cousin Randy. A graduate of Yale University, Newman headed for Hollywood in the early '80s. His first scores, including those for <i>Less Than Zero</i> and <i>The Lost Boys</i>, were primarily electronic. He started employing more standard orchestration in the '90s, and with the change came a long string of mega-hits, including but in no way limited to <i>The Shawshank Redemption</i>, <i>American Beauty</i>, <i>Scent of a Woman</i>, <i>Erin Brockovich</i>, <i>Finding Nemo</i>, <i>The Good German</i> and <i>WALL-E</i>. Newman has also plied his trade to television, most notably <i>Six Feet Under</i> and <i>Angels in America</i>. Much of his work post-<i>Shawshank</i> sees the composer filtering traditional orchestral music through the unconventional: world music-inspired percussion, ambient minimalism and so on. To date, Newman has won both Emmys and Grammys, but no Oscars, although he's been nominated eight times.
- Justin Farrar]]></description>
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<title>Ryuichi Sakamoto</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:13:33 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This Japanese superstar helped create electronica with the Yellow Magic Orchestra, has won Academy Awards for his film soundtracks, releases Alterna-Dance albums, and records Avant-Garde classical suites.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Michael Kamen</title>
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<title>Alexandre Desplat</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Alexandre Desplat's sublime compositions for Hollywood finally garnered him some well-deserved critical acclaim after scoring films in Europe in relative obscurity eversince 1991. Some of his best moments are the scores for <I>Casanova</I>, <I>The Upside of Anger</I>, <I>Hostage</I>, <I>Birth</I>, <I>Syriana</I> and <I>The Girl With A Pearl Earring</I> (the latter two of which landed him Golden Globe nominations). Whether he's using a computer program to compose with electronic music or fashioning a piece for the London Symphony Orchestra, Desplat's works are characterized by a seamless finesse in their instrumentation that gives birth to subtle ambiance, haunting tension, sparse beauty and the occasional outburst of galloping adventure.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Maurice Jarre</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Maurice Jarre is one of the founders of modern film soundtrack composing. He became a household name with his scores for David Lean -- <i>Lawrence of Arabia</i> earned him an Oscar, as did <i>Doctor Zhivago</i>. He currently has a similar relationship with another maverick director, the Australian Peter Weir.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Jerry Goldsmith</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:00:46 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Jerry Goldsmith has been the most consistent and consistently innovative film composer of the last four decades. He scores an average of six films a year and yet his music remains vital -- even his hack work has merit. With an equally firm grasp on classical, Avant-Garde, and jazz forms, he freely explores any avenue. His theme for <i>The Omen</i> has been ripped off by so many of his peers that he should receive royalties. Goldsmith's combination of synthesizers with jazz soloists in <i>Chinatown</i> still sounds timeless. Unfortunately, today's producers want him to churn out over-the-top pseudo-symphonies -- like <i>The Mummy</i> in 1998 -- and he often doesn't get to work at the height of his powers. But with his busy schedule, he can work on a couple of pet projects per year. Listen to his score for <i>L.A. Confidential</i>. Like most of Goldsmith's scores, it is the perfect marriage of music, character, and mood.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Miklos Rozsa</title>
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<category>20th/21st Century</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:09:36 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Michael Nyman</title>
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<category>Twenty-First Century</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:29 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Michael Nyman is one of those rare composers whose scholarly and musical accomplishments have both brought him considerable fame. A film composer of the finest caliber, Nyman has contributed scores to several Peter Greenway films, including <I>The Cook, The Thief, Her Wife and His Lover</I>, and <I>Prospero's Books</I>, his modular style providing the perfect complement to director's beautifully composed images. His non-film music falls on the lighter side of the Avant-Garde, abandoning the bold, abstract statements of Stockhausen in favor the more accessible ethnic sound of "The Michael Nyman Band." But just as important as his musical work is his scholarly work. His 1974 book <I>Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond</I> has become an essential text for both casual connoisseurs of the genre to well-versed academics. And, lest we forget, Nyman coined the universally accepted musical term which many use to classify some of his own work: minimalism.
- Doug Russell]]></description>
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<title>Elmer Bernstein</title>
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<category>Orchestral Scores</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:27:46 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Basil Poledouris</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:00:32 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Basil Poledouris has composed the music for many films, revealing in his lush arrangements and heavily dramatic scores a wonderful ability to propel the action onscreen. Nowhere is that more apparent than in <I>Conan the Barbarian</I>, a sumptuous aural feast that contains elements of post-Romanticism (think Saint-Saens' "Bacchanale"), early Eastern European Chants, and Middle Eastern music. True, there is something more than slightly inflated about the sound, but that's the beauty of it: Poledouris unabashedly creates a larger-than-life, sweeping score that is a perfect sonic mirror of the sword-and-sorcery fantasy playing out on the screen. For fans of large symphonic tone poems, it makes for delightful listening outside of the theater. The composer also created the award-winning music for the critically acclaimed television series <I>Lonesome Dove</I>, revealing a distinct Aaron Copland influence.
- Will Lerner]]></description>
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<title>Nino Rota</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:42:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Like other great film composers, Nino Rota found ways of creating new hybrid sounds by borrowing stylistic and instrumental devices from a variety of existing genres. Though he did some work writing symphonies and operas, this Italian is probably best known for his scores for the first two <i>Godfather</i> movies and for his longtime collaboration with director Federico Fellini. Enhancing films such as <i>8 1/2</i>, <i>Amarcord</i>, and <i>La Dolce Vita</i>, Rota provided sweeping string arrangements alongside his own brand of lightly swinging small combo jazz. Even when removed from its original context and heard in the form of brief, isolated cues, Rota's music retains its singular presence as it alternates between romantic, anxious, carefree, and sentimental moods.
- Will York]]></description>
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<title>Bill Conti</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:11:23 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Not only is composer Bill Conti recognized by his peers for his fine film compositions, but two of his movie theme songs, "Gonna Fly Now" from <I>Rocky</I> and the James Bond theme "For Your Eyes Only," have topped the pop charts. Conti did excellent work in Hollywood throughout the 1970s, and in 1983 he won an Academy Award for his score to the underrated <I>The Right Stuff</I>. Fans of hairspray, shoulder pads and conspicuous consumption love his instantly recognizable themes to the TV shows <I>Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous</I> and <I>Dynasty</I>, while his stylish score to the 1999 remake of <I>The Thomas Crown Affair</I> became a favorite "chill-out" album among the club set.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Michel Legrand</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:40 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Remember that cousin you always hated as a kid? He was out winning football games, spelling bees, and building five-room treehouses while you just tried to figure out how to put your Micronauts together. Well, that cousin is Michel Legrand (he's not a girl, he's French). Legrand has recorded jazz with Miles Davis, Coltrane, <I>and</I> Sarah Vaughan. Besides releasing a never-ending string of easy listening and jazz piano albums, Legrand's won Academy Awards for both his film scores and his own songs (he's probably written most of the modern jazz standards of the rock age). If that wasn't enough, Legrand is also a whiz at the piano, be it jazz or classical. Thankfully, he hasn't been pictured in <I>Paris Match</I> cuddling up poolside to a sunbathing Princess Stephanie or we'd really have to hate him. Cousin Legrand is one talented wee bugger and an international treasure.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>John Debney</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:32:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Gabriel Yared</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 8 Oct 2009 11:44:23 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A film director can always rely on Gabriel Yared to compose an original, compelling score that complements both story and character. Jean-Luc Godard broke him into movies in 1979, and the international success of <i>Betty Blue</i> (1986) led to his hopping back and forth between Continental, British and American films ever since. Like Jerry Goldsmith, he has a keen understanding of jazz as well as classical music, and can give something a personal stamp even when he borrows from another composer's style (e.g., his work on <i>The Talented Mr. Ripley</i>, in which Yared combined Hitchcock with Cool Jazz). He has been awarded many international film prizes, and he even scored an Academy Award for <i>The English Patient</i>.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Victor Young</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:43:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As a composer, Victor Young scored such classic films as <i>Shane</i> and <i>Gun Crazy</i>. As a songwriter, he penned such standards as "Stella By Starlight" and "Mona Lisa."
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Lalo Schifrin</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:02:46 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As both a pianist and composer, Lalo Schifrin has made an indelible mark on twentieth century music. He got his start in New York playing with Dizzy Gillespie's quintet in the early 1960s, but soon moved on to front his own Bossa Nova trio. Finally, he dove into the lucrative field of Film Soundtracks, becoming one of the most prolific film composers in history. Schifrin is responsible for the world's single most famous tune in five/four: the theme from Mission: Impossible has set the standard for catchy, compelling film soundtracks, and of course, inspired countless college marching bands. His non-soundtrack work consists of elegantly orchestrated Third Stream compositions, which bridge the gaps between jazz, Afro-Brazilian rhythm, and modern classical orchestration. Few composers can boast Schifrin's gift for setting a mood, whether it be suspense, romance, terror, or exaltation.
- Noah Enelow]]></description>
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<title>Johnny Mandel</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:00:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Christopher Young</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:27:46 -0800</pubDate>
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- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Bernard Herrmann</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:27:51 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Alfred Newman</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:09:36 -0800</pubDate>
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<rhap:artist xmlns:rhap="rhap">Alfred Newman</rhap:artist>
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<title>Dennis McCarthy</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:00:43 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Composer Dennis McCarthy graduated to the big leagues with his work for <i>Star Trek: Generations</i> (1995). He can work in many styles, and his music for <i>Breast Men</i> helps to bridge several decades of the flesh augmentation business.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Carter Burwell</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:27:47 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[While Carter Burwell is most recognized for his long collaboration with the Coen Brothers, he has distinguished himself over the years as one of the finest film composers working. His recent scores to <i>Gods and Monsters</i>, <i>Being John Malkovich</i> and <i>The Spanish Prisoner</i> are equal to anything he has written for Ethan or Joel Coen.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Dimitri Tiomkin</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:09:35 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Tiomkin's saccharine Americana pastiches were typical of western soundtracks in the pre-Morricone 1950s, but they're now more likely to elicit associations with TV dinners and <I>Nick at Nite</I> reruns.
- Will York]]></description>
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<title>Neil Norman</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:14:42 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Producer, label head, synth player, and guitarist Neil Norman is best known to the listening public (or at least portions of it) for his arrangements of sci-fi and outer-space related soundtrack music. His <I>Greatest Science Fiction Hits</I> series, for example, includes reworkings of themes from <I>Dr. Who</I>, <I>Star Wars</I>, <I>The Twilight Zone</I>, <I>War of the Worlds</I>, and many other films. Tracks range from spooky synth-scapes to guitar-driven space boogies. Then there are his numerous <I>Star Trek</I>-related efforts which include not only reworkings of music from the many films and TV show spin-offs, but also a full album's worth of sound effects that are bound to come in handy for the devoted Trekkie.
- Will York]]></description>
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<title>Mikis Theodorakis</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:48:40 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sparse and haunting music scores from a political Greek film composer. An ethnic feel permeates most of his compositions, due to use of bouzouki and other traditional instruments. Two of Theodorakis' most well-known works are <i>Serpico</i> and <i>Zorba the Greek</i>.]]></description>
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<title>Roy Budd</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 11:38:58 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>George S. Clinton</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:35:09 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Not to be confused with the pioneering funkateer, George S. Clinton is a talented songwriter and film composer, with a style that mixes synthesizer, orchestra and Asian drumming in an exotic and spicy blend. His credits include songs for the Jackson Five and Joe Cocker, as well as scores for <i>Austin Powers</i> and <i>Mortal Kombat</i>.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Georges Delerue</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:21:43 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This versatile French-born composer has lent his deft orchestral abilities to the films of Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, among many others. His stirring string-scapes have been heard more recently gracing the likes of <i>Platoon</i> and <i>Joe Versus the Volcano</i>.
- Will York]]></description>
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<title>Max Steiner</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:34:37 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Not only was Max Steiner one of the great classical composers who worked in Hollywood, he was one of the first to truly integrate music and story. His great work includes the scores to <i>King Kong</i>, <i>Gone With the Wind</i> and <i>Casablanca</i>. Imagine having those pictures on your resume.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Shirley Walker</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 1 Mar 2009 10:47:37 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Mark Snow</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:55:17 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Nicola Piovani</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:22:24 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Piovani's film scores for such luminaries as Fellini are both wistful and darkly nostalgic. Truly beautiful, like Angelo Badalamenti using a 1940s dance orchestra instead of synths and computers.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Zbigniew Preisner</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:14:33 -0700</pubDate>
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<rhap:artist xmlns:rhap="rhap">Zbigniew Preisner</rhap:artist>
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<description><![CDATA[An award-winning Polish composer who has been active since the early 1980s, Zbigniew Preisner creates scores for the big screen that, while possessing a dramatic life all their own, complement moving images wonderfully. Sometimes employing a full orchestra, and at other times a small ensemble, his music sets a distinctive and entrancing tone that brings together elements of modern classical, Eastern European folk music, and atmospheric -- albeit un-electronic -- Ambient. Percussion clashes over stirring string passages as massive themes build with unbelievable intensity. Best known for his work on such foreign successes as <I>Europa, Europa</I> and <I>Trois Couleurs: Rouge</I>, Preisner has also worked with directors such as Louis Malle and Hector Babenco (noted Brazilian director of <I>Kiss of the Spider Woman</I>).
- Will Lerner]]></description>
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<title>Steve Dorff</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Dorff has done a variety of work for film, theatre and television, as well as string arrangements for country stars like Kenny Rogers and Clint Black. You remember the music for <i>Growing Pains</i> and <i>Alien Nation</i> right? Currently working on theatre productions like <i>Lunch</i>.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Carl Stalling</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 1 May 2009 14:01:29 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Ron Jones</title>
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<category>TV Soundtracks</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:00:40 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Composer and conductor of the score from <i>Star Trek: The Next Generation</i>'s finest episode, "The Best of Both Worlds," Jones captures the eerie mechanism and looming threat of the Borg perfectly, and treats Captain Picard's terrifying ordeal with due weight. What? What do you mean? What's wrong with liking <i>Star Trek</i>? Stop looking at us like that.
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<title>Lee Holdridge</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:44 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Holdridge got his start doing string arrangements for Neil Diamond and John Denver. He's since plunged into the world of Hollywood film scoring, orchestrating light, nostalgic moods in an effective if not highly memorable manner.
- Will York]]></description>
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<title>David Newman</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 9 Feb 2009 10:20:25 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Acoustic pop with "gut-wrenching soul" and catchy choruses, one of which goes "hey-yay-yay-wah-hoo-haw." If soul can be measured in the amount of nonsensical syllables you can insert into one song, Newman's the next James Brown.
- Jon Pruett]]></description>
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<title>Passengers</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:18:18 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Alan Howarth</title>
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<category>Non-Orchestral</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:32:42 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Film composer and sound designer responsible for special effects for the second and third <i>Star Trek</i> films compiles ambient spaceship whirs and icky alien goop sounds for your listening pleasure.
- Doug Russell]]></description>
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<title>James Covell</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:25:28 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Stephen Endelman</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:10 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A talented conductor of ambient orchestral music and lush Film Scores, Endelman has worked on a variety of high profile projects. His work includes the spacey accompaniment for the Hayden Space Show at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York and more traditional orchestral music for films including <i>A Bronx Tale</i> and <i>Flirting With Disaster</i>.
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