The Score

A unique collection of lively, in-depth, musically savvy conversations with contemporary film composers of every style, background, and position in Hollywood's hierarchy, The Score brings together a broad cross-section of current thoughts about the process of film composing, styles of film music, and working within today's entertainment industry.


Interviews with: John Barry (From Russia with Love, Dances with Wolves, Out of Africa), Elmer Bernstein (To Kill a Mockingbird, The Magnificent Seven, The Grifters), Terence Blanchard (Malcolm X, Crooklyn, Clockers), Bruce Broughton (Silverado, The Presidio, Tombstone), Paul Chihara (Crossing Delancey, The Morning After, Prince of the City), John Corigliano (Altered States, The Red Violin, Revolution), James Newton Howard (The Fugitive, The Prince of Tides, Lord of the Rings), Mark Isham (A River Runs Through It, Cool World, Quiz Show), Daniel Licht (Thinner, Children of the Night, Permanent Midnight), Joel McNeely (The Avengers, Radioland Murders, Virus), Thomas Newman (The Shawshank Redemption, American Beuty, The Horse Whisperer), Marc Shaiman (City Slickers, A Few Good Men, South Park), Howard Shore (The Silence of the Lambs, Ed Wood, Naked Lunch), Shirley Walker (Escape from L.A., Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, Turbulence), Christopher Young (Hellraiser, Species, Murder in the First).