People seemed reasonably interested in my breakdown a few days ago of which orchestrators worked on which cues for John Williams on The...

I’ve been happy to publish this blog, which I started in August 2021 and have continued ever since with daily updates (except for a few...

Over the weekend, Jo Ann Kane Music Service put up a Facebook post celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back (released...

I have a soft spot for this late-second season Star Trek: The Next Generation episode. It was the first time I really started to take...

I was posting my column yesterday about an old Star Trek episode when I saw that Vangelis died. Truly, this is a far more consequential...

Yesterday I posted an album of John Williams pictures to Facebook that we collected over the years. It was, naturally, well-received, and...

I’ve posted a fun collection of John Williams photos to Facebook. We collected these over the years for Film Score Monthly, and many...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog post about some composer interview videos I found on a YouTube channel called ThemeWorks. My old...

Above: James Horner’s cameo in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Wow, we finally got to hear “Spectral Shimmers”! This was an early James...

NEWS FLASH: Selected FSM CDs are 20% off at Screen Archives, May 12–17. Go here for the details. I’ve had some interesting journeys in...

I have posted an album to Facebook of our collection of Jerry Goldsmith photos. Above is a super-rare shot from 1968 we found in the...

Gloria Bell is a 2018 film by Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio, an American adaptation of his 2013 film, Gloria. I never even knew this...

Is it fun owning one of the most popular discussion boards for film music? Well...sometimes? I’ve always been glad to host a place to...

On a couple of occasions the past several weeks I’ve felt obligated to weigh in (once on the FSM message board, once on Facebook) on...

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there! Having nothing to do with that, Tim Greiving, journalist extraordinaire, posted this film...

I am too young to have experienced the 1960s—but I sure like the aesthetics! Hotel (1967), based on a 1965 Arthur Hailey novel, was a...

I am loving Winning Time! And I say that as a lifelong Boston sports fan. The title sequence is terrific: I had been unsure whether the...

A shout-out today to one of my favorite short films of all time: Live at the Necropolis: The Lords of Synth (2016), which aired on Adult...

The other day I had a little melodic fragment stuck in my head—but I couldn’t remember what it was from. This seems to be happening to me...

Okay folks, today’s “a good one”! Another one of my encounters with the greats (a la the John Williams story) that’s full of...