Music Break: Casino Royale Score (City of Lovers)

Happy Thursday everyone! It's been over a month since my last music break, and I definitely could use one today. As a preview to our monthly Bond post coming next week, I feel like highlighting one of my favorite Bond scores. I've posted my top five Bond title songs, but as far as main scores …

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Music Break: Cinema Paradiso (1988)

I'm not feeling too well today, so naturally, I turn to lush, gorgeous music to make me feel better, and this one just immediately came to mind. In fact, as I said in my Cinema Paradiso review, I had fallen in love with Ennio Morricone's soundtrack long before I finally saw the film. Of course, …

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Music Break: Top 10 Favorite John Williams Scores

I've been meaning to write a tribute for one of my favorite composers for a while and since February 8th is his 80th Birthday, it seems like a good a time as any. As I've mentioned several times on my blog, my two all time favorite music genres are classical and movie soundtracks, so naturally …

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Music Break: Mozart in the Movies

Today, January 27th, marks the 256th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birth. I listen to classical NPR to and from work a lot and they're promoting a special program commemorating this event. Well, as my two of my all time favorite music genres are classical and soundtracks, I thought I'd sort of combine the two …

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Music Break: Five Fave Scores from Gregory Peck Films

Hello all, I'm kind of taking a blogging break today... I was going to write a review of The Artist but I'll save that for next week. So how about a bit of movie music to perk up your day. As you already know, my recent Gregory Peck marathon has been a blast. Out of …

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Music Break: Top Five Favorite Hans Zimmer Scores

Happy Tuesday, folks. I don't have much time to blog today but I thought I'd highlight one of my favorite composers, Hans Zimmer, who turned 54 yesterday. Ever so prolific with over 140 works under his belt, including movies, TV and even video games, the German native is known for using tribal/ethnic sounding elements in …

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Desert Island CD Blogathon: 12 songs I wish to have if I were stranded on a desert island

It's been a while since I participated in a blog-a-thon, so when my pal Castor from Anomalous Material initiated this one, inspired by last year's Desert Island DVD. This time, as the title obviously says, we're asked to list 12 tracks we wish we'd have with us if we're stranded on a desert island for …

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