Bernard Herrmann

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Read More

The scene at the Newman Scoring Stage on the 20th Century Fox Lot last week might have seemed a familiar one on the surface: a Prague-born, English-accented composer was conducting a 50-piece orchestra, racing against the clock to complete a tense, classically themed score. Read More

With Dark Shadows set to hit theaters this weekend, Warners hosted a small Q&A this past Tuesday to highlight what will be composer Danny Elfman and director Tim Burton 's fourteenth film together. Read More

It's not often that a compilation of thirty-year old music is almost as representative of the time of its issue as it is of the artist that originally made it, but that's the case with Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music from the always suave and ever distinctive musician known to many as simply Esquivel. Read More

We now know that Kinect Star Wars was not the hardcore Kinect experience that it was originally touted to be. Read More

When I saw him perform twice last year, both sets were distinctly different, but both succeeded in affecting a certain aboriginal feeling in my body, by way of subsonic frequencies or animal instincts or what-have-you, and bypassed my natural inclination to be turned off by what I would normally call sanctimonious presentations in a performance context. Read More