


The Imperfect Man of Steel
“If you think about the Dick Donner and John Williams version, they declare themselves in the first note. This is a superhero. I kept thinking, we know he’s a superhero, but wouldn’t it be interesting if we did it the other way around? How can a stranger in a strange land become part of humanity? […]

Outer Space
Witness the moving gesture that crippled Ben Schachtman‘s ability to by cynical. It’s found its form: Inception in concert in Vienna. “[Ebert’s] father called Champaign-Urbana ‘the greatest university in the world,’ a Burnham-designed neoclassical oasis with a first-edition Audubon open on display in the library. It was a place that attracted minds from all over […]

Of Scoring and Record Making – 2012 in Film Music
There’s an argument to be made against releasing and listening to a film score as an album. Separate from its whole, certain nuances can be lost along with its narrative contrivance. Certain films live and die by the combinatorial arrangement of images and sound, and it is in the delicate balance between the pieces that many […]