Film scores have been an integral part of movies since 1908 when Camille Saint-Saens wrote a composition to accompany the film Assassination of Duc de Guise. A live orchestra played the music while the movie played. The first film composition integrated within a movie came with King Kong in the 1930s. Since then, musical composers… Continue reading The Best Movie Scores of the Last 30 Years
Month: October 2024
Introducing Wojciech Kilar’s “Dracula”
“I want the score for DRACULA to be like a Prokofiev score for Eisenstein. I want it to be performed by symphonies. I want great music. Not just theater music, but great music.” — Francis Ford Coppola on the score to Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) On November 9, 2024, the Chicago Philharmonic performs… Continue reading Introducing Wojciech Kilar’s “Dracula”