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In this episode we talk about the Oscars, JJ Abrams’ new Star Wars and who will score it, a few headlines, and what we’ve been listening to lately. Oh, and Happy Birthday John Williams!
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- Daniel Licht “The Art of Writing a Television Score.”
- Golden State Pops Orchestra to have an all-Alan Silvestri concert on 2/16/13.
- Petra Haden (violinist, vocalist) covers film themes; full album stream here.
- We’ve been listening to Safe, House of Cards, How to Train Your Dragon
- New Star Wars VII directed by JJ Abrams; who should write the score?
- Oscar Nominations for music
In this episode, we look at Giacchino’s score to John Carter, pay respects to three artists who recently passed away, and talk about what else we have been listening to this week.
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- Three artists passing: songwriter Robert Sherman, accordionist Frank Marocco, and
trumpeter Warren Luening dies. - A featurette about the sound design and music of John Carter.
- Bill and Kevin’s in-depth discussion of Giacchino’s score to John Carter.
- Scores Bill and Kevin have been listening to this week: Toy Story 3, Star Trek VI,
Drive, Voyage to the Moon, The Muppets, X-Men First Class, Captain America,
and Cop Out.
In this episode, we look at some new articles and interviews featuring Giacchino, Williams, Zimmer, and Martinez. Filmtracks has their best picks for 2011, and we discuss our thoughts on the 2012 Oscar winners.
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- Insightful article in USA Today titled “All Hail John Williams”.
- One interview with Michael Giacchino about John Carter video interview; a second one is here.
- Hans Zimmer talks about The Dark Knight Rises score.
- Turns out Cliff Martinez wasn’t snubbed, he was ineligible for not writing an “original” score! Wait, what about The Artist?
- Filmtracks.com lists their picks for best of 2011:
- Best Composer: Patrick Doyle
- Best Score: The Straight Line (Doyle)
- Best Cue: “Final Round” Real Steel – (Elfman)
- Bill and Kevin discuss their thoughts on the Oscar winners.
In this episode we review headlines: Zimmer helps at Oscars, JN Howard gets Elfman’s Hunger Games job, and Menken scores Mirror Mirror. Scorsese wins a BFCA award, and Elfman interviews live on Dec. 16. Plus we look at ten holiday/Christmas favorites.
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- Favorite Christmas Scores
- Babe – Nigel Westlake (C. Saint-Saens)
- Elf – John Debney
- Amazing Stories: Santa ‘85 – Thomas Newman
- Charlie Brown Christmas – Vince Guaraldi
- Batman Returns – Danny Elfman
- Home Alone – John Williams
- Edward Scissorhands – Danny Elfman
- The Grinch – Albert Hague
- Gremlins – Jerry Goldsmith
- A Christmas Story – Paul Zaza and Carl Zittrer
- James Newton Howard replaces Elfman on The Hunger Games.
- Alan Menken will score Mirror Mirror.
- Hans Zimmer and Pharrell Williams named as Oscar music supervisors.
- The Broadcast Film Critics Association named Scorsese the second recipient of its Music+Film Award
- David Arnold remembers John Barry in The Guardian.
- Hans Zimmer talks about Man of Steel on Indiewire.com
- Live chat with Danny Elfman at 11:30 a.m. on Dec. 16; hosted by Culture Monster.
- Live “Movies on the Radio” with Michael Giacchino on Dec. 17 at WQXR.
Home Alone, you might like Tchaikovsky‘s The Nutcracker..
We discuss Howard Shore’s new score to Hugo, several articles featuring Michael Giacchino, and how hard it is to be nominated for an Oscar for best score. Plus Kevin and Bill talk about what they have both seen lately. Happy Birthday Randy Newman.
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- Howard Shore talks about “Hugo,” then talks about Hugo to Doug Adams, then Hugo’s score gets reviewed.
- Michael Giacchino gets interviewed here and here, and is announced to score Star Trek 2.
- David Arnold would like Queen to perform the new Bond theme song.
- Article about Conrad Pope’s “My Week with Marilyn score”, including a video interview.
- Is “Best Original Score” the hardest Oscar category to break into? Plus, possible award season contenders.
- Happy Birthday Randy Newman!
Martin Scorsesi films, you might like Howard Shore‘s The Invention of Dreams from the new film Hugo.
