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I've been wanting to feature this haunting score for a while now, and since Easter was just a few days ago, I thought it'd be fitting to feature it this week. Ennio Morricone is one of my favorite composers of all time, with Cinema Paradiso being one of my favorite scores ever. There's something so …
Continue reading Music Break: Ennio Morricone’s The Mission – Gabriel’s Oboe
Ang Lee's beautifully-made Life of Pi's released on Blu-ray/DVD this week, and since I had just been talking about Asian directors, might as well feature his film on today's music break. Canadian Composer Mychael Danna has won a Golden Globe and Oscar for his astounding soundtrack work for this film. This is Danna's third collaboration …
Happy Friday everybody. Hope y'all had a nice Valentine's Day yesterday. I listen to Classical MPR radio on my commute to work and yesterday morning there were a lot of Valentine dedications and they're playing some beautiful, sweeping waltzes. One of them is Waltz for Peppy from the gorgeous soundtrack of The Artist. Oh I …
I just realized I haven't done a Music Break since last November! Well I'm feeling rather melancholy tonight so I watched a little bit of the 1995 version of Sabrina. I adore this movie... it's just sooo enchanting. It's a modern-day Cinderella story of sort. Sabrina Fairchild, the chauffeur of the billionaire Larrabee family, is …
I just started catching up on the ABC show Once Upon A Time this past weekend, so that inspired me to pick the music for today's Music Break. I've only watched two episodes from the first season but I quite like it so far, though some of the acting is a bit over the top. …
Continue reading Music Break – Favorite fairy tale music inspired by ABC’s ‘Once Upon A Time’
Welcome to another edition of the Music Break series! Apparently I skipped one in October with the TCFF festivities. Well for this week, I was raking my brain to see what soundtrack I would highlight. Well, given today is post-election Wednesday, I figure it'd be fitting to highlight this Oscar-nominated score as Barrack Obama has …
A piece of sad news came over the radio waves this morning as I heard that legendary crooner Andy Williams passed away after a year-long battle with bladder cancer at the age of 84. My mother was a huge fan of his music, along with other popular vocalists in the 60s and 70s like Frank …
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