More rain! I don’t remember a winter this wet in L.A. A reminder that Creature Features’ CD sale is ongoing, hope you can find something...

In case you missed it, CBS Sunday Morning recently did a lovely piece on the late, great Henry Mancini: This includes footage from the...

I put off writing about Andor’s first season because it seemed like a lot of work to do it justice. I rewatched the 12 episodes and I...

One benefit of John Williams being Oscar-nominated for the score to The Fabelmans is that he’s doing a lot of media—more than I can ever...

Whoa! Another one of my all-time favorite cues comes to YouTube: Dominic Sewell is going through the entire John Williams Empire Strikes...

Many thanks to those who showed up yesterday for the first day of the big Creature Features CD sale! There’s tons of stuff available at...

Here is the list! 2,028 items. Go here for the web page. Go here for a downloadable (sortable) excel spreadsheet. Go here for...

Mark your calendars! If you’ve been following my selling of my CD collection, you know that Creature Features has been kindly handling...

There’s a new piece in The Guardian getting spread around on social about composer assistants and the terrible working conditions. Check...

A few people have written to ask if I’m still selling CDs from my personal collection. Yes! We had a very busy couple of weeks when the...

I woke up this morning to the sad news that Gerald Fried died on Friday, February 17. He had just turned 95 on the 13th. Please see Jon...

My thanks to my pal Frank DeWald who shared these metal versions of classic Rózsa themes. I think it’s cool!

I can’t blog about anything because I’m doing something at my computer that takes hours, if not days. I hate these “vague tweet” like...

Whoa! Dominic Sewell Music on YouTube is going through the entire John Williams score for The Empire Strikes Back with reductions and...

Miklós Rózsa fans will want to check out this interview with Daniel Robbins, who has written his memoirs (yet to be published), Memoirs...

During summers in the early to mid 1990s, I worked at a grocery store on Martha’s Vineyard while also doing the earliest newsletter...

One of the coincidences you learn as a die-hard film score fan is that John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith have birthdays the same week in...

Farewell to one of the all-time greats, Burt Bacharach, who has died at 94. Here’s Tim Grieving’s obituary from The Washington Post. I...

I’ve been unusually busy so I haven’t had a chance to watch something I found on YouTube that I’ve always wanted to see: the 1963...

Wow, I’m getting busy. The WCAI piece about my Vineyard project was picked up on Facebook, on some Vineyard discussion groups, so I’ve...