Music for 'Impossible' catastrophic yet sensitive
Creating music for a film about the tsunami that resulted in the deaths of some 230,000 people in 2004 can't be easy. But that event and its aftermath were precisely what Spanish composer Fernando…
David Mermelstein
Cultural icons climb stairway to kudos
Honors embrace the blues, ballet, comedy and acting giants
Marianelli calls 'Karenina's' experimentalism liberating
Joe Wright's fragmented, hyper-stylized adaptation of Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" presented plenty of challenges to all who worked on it. But for Dario Marianelli, who has scored all but one of…
Byrne scores big 'Albert Nobbs'
Calling "Albert Nobbs" Brian Byrne's big break might be overstating the case, but not by much. "It was a dream project," Byrne says of the Glenn Close starrer that is his biggest scoring assignment…
O'Connor in tune with 'Albert Nobbs'
"Her voice is like an old fiddle," says Brian Byrne of Sinead O'Connor. "There's no other voice in the world like it."
Gregson-Williams relishes the chase
"Cowboys and Aliens" and "Arthur Christmas" seem about as different as two movies can be. The former is a live-action Western and space invaders mash-up; the latter, an animated holiday pic for kids…
Marianelli: Classic novel adaptation is given classicist's treatment
There's no getting around the burden of expectations that comes with seeing favorite novels adapted to the screen -- especially if they've been filmed before, as with "Jane Eyre." But composer Dario…
Jackman: Maestro assumes characteristics of chameleon
Composer Henry Jackman sees film scorers as the chameleons of the movie industry, possessing the ability to blend in just about anywhere. And the movies he's scored this year support that claim: the…
Kennedy Center honors five
Musicians dominate the honors, but then again, Meryl Streep sings, too
Stage gauges online casting
Perhaps it's fitting that oldest of the dramatic arts -- live theater -- would be the last to adopt the new technology of digital casting. But this timesaving approach to populating a show now seems…
