For only the second time in Academy Awards history, two of the five nominated songs are from documentaries"and one of them is an aria performed an opera star, also only the second time durin…
The best movie songs are the ones that illuminate character, summarize the story or otherwise add a new dimension to the film experience. More than in most years, in 2025 there was a bumper …
Cast and crew breathing and vocalizing together. Banging giant metal plates in a London warehouse. Inventing impressionistic vocal colors for the Elizabethan era. Hiring a 90-piece orchestra…
Back in the 1950s, four Los Angeles musicians were widely acclaimed as the finest performers of chamber music in America. They called themselves the Hollywood String Quartet, because they sp…
Lalo Schifrin, the Grammy-winning composer of "Mission: Impossible" and film scores including "Cool Hand Luke," "Dirty Harry" and "Bullitt," died Thursday of complications from pneumonia. He…
Seth MacFarlane's new album "Lush Life: The Lost Sinatra Arrangements," released today on Republic/Verve, finds the singer and "Family Guy" creator back in Frank Sinatra territory " not only…
"In the Heights," Lin-Manuel Miranda's tale of the immigrant community of New York's Washington Heights, will be released on Friday. Its four Tony Awards for the original Broadway show inclu…
"Score: The Podcast" is perhaps the most popular of the many film-music series in the audio marketplace. Helmed by Oscar-nominated composer Robert Kraft and Emmy-winning news producer Kenny …
You probably know him as the grumpy dad of the Italophile bicycle racer in "Breaking Away." Or as Molly Ringwald's understanding dad in "Sixteen Candles." Or as the long-suffering dad who wa…