The YouTube channel Dominic Sewell Music posted Dominic’s latest Star Wars score reduction, of the “Death of Alderaan.” The passage I’ve...

When I was publishing Film Score Monthly, I used to get a fair number of emails (and before that, hardcopy letters) from aspiring...

Check out this list and see if you can tell what it’s for: The Sugarland Express YES Jaws YES Close Encounters of the Third Kind YES 1941...

I did not know that composer Bear McCreary’s mom is an author. I read a remembrance she wrote of one of Bear and his brother Brendan’s...

British composer and arranger Laurie Johnson has died at the age of 96. I was of the wrong age, and on the wrong continent, to watch The...

Farewell to the great Peter Schickele and his alter ego, P.D.Q. Bach. He actually made classical music funny: Bravo to a true original.

Dominic Sewell on YouTube is around halfway through a detailed reduction of John Williams’ Star Wars (1977) score, going through each and...

There has been an unfortunate deluge of spam hitting the FSM board for a couple of weeks. Have I mentioned how much I hate these jerks?...

A plug today for a friend of a friend, Chris Mich, who is celebrating the 100th birthday of the great Henry Mancini with an extended...

One perk of having created Film Score Monthly is that I have lifetime access to FSM Online, which has continuously published monthly...

I was sorry to hear of the passing of recording engineer Mike Ross-Trevor, whose name I have seen on countless number of my favorite...

Check out this piano transcription—created by ear—by composer Harrison Ingemarson of “State of the Art/The Charge” from Jerry Goldsmith’s...

Intrada has announced an expanded reissue of James Horner’s Something Wicked This Way Comes, a terrific early score from the master. Yay!...

Saltburn is not quite what I expected. Part of this is deliberate. It looks like a film where the poor shy kid at boarding school is...

Twenty years ago—wow, it’s been a while—I was lucky to put together several expanded James Bond soundtrack reissues for EMI and MGM. It...

Maestro is excellent. Great lead performances, amazing makeup, great sense of period. And the music speaks for itself. I wonder how much...

Congratulations to the makers of The Crown on concluding a truly high quality and high-class show. I’m a typical American, so the British...

Nahre Sol is a pianist, composer and music educator with a lot of great videos online, both for serious musicians and casual aficionados....

My compliments to the International Film Music Archives on an eclectic collection of unreleased film music on YouTube. There’s a bunch of...

This is probably a shot in the dark but we are trying to find a La-La Land Records Krull CD from the recent big CD sale that might have...