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JOHN OTTMAN (2008)

JOHN OTTMAN (2008)

October 20, 2010 | By

Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers . On the one hand, it shouldn’t be surprising to hear John Ottman praise the films of the seventies, because for several composers – John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Michael Small, and David Shire, to name a few – that decade not only gave them opportunities to write some […]

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D. BRENT NELSON

D. BRENT NELSON

October 20, 2010 | By

Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers . Since 1965, NBC has been broadcasting episodes of Days of Our Lives [DOOL], one of the longest-running daytime soap operas in TV history. The show’s large cast of characters – many who’ve been active since the seventies and eighties – has given the show’s composing team of […]

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JOHN MURPHY

JOHN MURPHY

October 20, 2010 | By

Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers   John Murphy is a bit of an enigma in that he’s recognized for a sound that inarguably made some of the most popular films by Danny Boyle and Michael Ritchie successful with audiences. Whether it’s music for hip or slightly daft criminals, astronauts trying to stop the […]

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DON MACDONALD

DON MACDONALD

October 20, 2010 | By

Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers . The release of Don Macdonald’s Fido soundtrack as a downloadable album from Lionsgate Records (via iTunes) is a bit more important than a standard soundtrack album because it marks a rather rare occasion when an original score written by a Canadian composer for a Canadian film is […]

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BEAR MCCREARY (2009)

BEAR MCCREARY (2009)

October 20, 2010 | By

Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers . Bear McCreary is one of the busiest composers working in Hollywood, and he’s perhaps best-known for his work for the rebooted Battlestar Galactica series. His latest project is the pilot episode forCaprica, the next chapter in the ongoing franchise, as well as the videogame which furthers […]

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