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Volume 10, Number 6 Original Music Soundtracks for Movies and Television The End of FSM —or Is It? Pg. 4 SPECIAL COLLECTOR’S EDITION FINAL PRINT ISSUE! 25 by AFI Picking the Greatest Film Scores Danny Elfman The Darkest Buyer’s Guide Yet Dante Meets Goldsmith Nine Crazy Collaborations Maestro Erich Kunzel The Art of the Suite & Cincinatti Pops on CD Shakespeare Scores Music for the Bard’s Comedies PLUS: News • Mail Bag • Downbeat Score • The Laserphile $7.95 U.S. • $8.95 Canada ������������������������������������������������ contents ����������������������������������������� �������������� �������� ������� ��������� ������������� ����������� ������� �������������� ��������������� ���������� ���������� �������� ��������� ����������������� ��������� ����������������������� ����������������� ������������������������������� ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ������ ��������������������������������������������������� ��������������������������� ������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������� ������������������������������������������������������������� ������������������� ��������������������� ����������������������������� contents Nov./Dec. 2005 DEPARTMENTS COVER STORY 32 The AFI Top 25 4 Editorial A fitting cover story for the last print issue of FSM, the American Keeping the Dream Alive. Film Institute recently presented its top 25 film scores at a memorable performance conducted by John Mauceri at the Hollywood Bowl. 6 News See how your favorites measured up. By Joe Sikoryak 8 Record Label Round-Up What’s on the way. FEATURES 8 Now Playing Movies and CDs in 18 So, you want to play Film Music? release. 18 The Art of the Suite 9 Upcoming Film Maestro Erich Kunzel celebrates his 40th year leading the Cincinnati Assignments Pops and reflects on a career dedicated to the art of film music. Who’s writing what By Saul Pincus and Mike Petersen for whom. 10 Concerts 13 Pops Art Film music performed Over the years, Erich Kunzel and Telarc have joined forces to bring us around the globe. album after album of film music collections on CD. Here’s a guide to the best…and the rest. 11 Mail Bag Lalo CDs. 24 One of the Good Ones 13 Downbeat Part One of the Danny Elfman Buyer’s Guide follows the versatile and Serenity Now! inventive composer’s evolution from 1996’s Mission: Impossible to last summer’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. 43 Score By Thor J. Haga 34 I vant to suck some bluhd... A big batch of CDs (and books), including Broken 29 Work for Darkened Media Flowers, Corpse Bride, A Commercials, concert works, video games and more. History of Violence, Judgment Night, The Brave Little Toaster and Seed of Chucky (x2). 34 The Dante/Goldsmith Project Director Joe Dante recounts his long, fruitful relationship with 54 Pocket Reviews Jerry Goldsmith. Reading this may only make you miss Jerry more… but in a good way. 61 Laserphile By Michael Heintzelman Making the Leap. 56 FSM Marketplace 38 Not With the Eyes, But With the Ears In Part One of a three-part series, we take a look at the music for film versions of William Shakespeare works—this time, it’s the comedies. 38 As you like it! By James Lochner ON THE COVER: “MAGIC IN THE AIR” PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY JOE SIKORYAK Film Score Magazine (ISSN 1077-4289) was published six times a year for $36.95 per year by Vineyard Haven LLC., 8503 Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232. Periodicals postage paid at Culver City, CA and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Film Score Magazine, 8503 Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232 FILM SCORE MAGAZINE 3 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2005 EDITORIAL have the same people managing FSM Online, the same great stable of contributors, and, most important, the same content you’ve come to Keeping the Dream Alive expect from the printed pages of Volume 10 • Number 6 FSM over the past 15 years. While it’s FSM says good-bye...and hello. true you won’t have the tactile form of the printed magazine delivered to EDITORIAL STAFF n 1990 I had a dream: to be “hardcopy” subscriptions (hence the your home, there is a lot to be gained popular in high school. That was aforementioned free-CD letters) and from migrating to online, digital Editor & Publisher Iclearly impossible. So I came starting new ones for the electronic content. In fact, as we moved forward LUKAS KENDALL up with a new dream: to publish a version. (See below.) If you appreciate with these plans, we quickly realized Executive Editor magazine about an aspect of movies this magazine the way I think you that the Internet is a perfect place JONATHAN Z. KAPLAN I found fascinating—the music. This do—if you have the kind of love for for FSM, and now is a logical and Managing Editor was before the Internet, before DVDs, us that we have for you—then join us perfect time to move it there. Imagine TIM CURRAN before most film scores were available on the digital frontier. a magazine no longer limited by Creative Director on CD, and before I could drive. I will be concentrating my efforts page count, or black-and-white print JOE SIKORYAK It succeeded beyond my wildest on our label, producing at least 20 and pictures, or by time spent at the Editor-at-Large imagination. After 15 years we have CDs a year of rare and forgotten printer or in distribution. And that JEFF BOND published over 150 editions of FSM, soundtracks. So you won’t find me just scratches the surface. Copyeditor released 125 CDs on our specialty writing as much, but I will be reading, DEBBIE NOTKIN soundtrack label, maintained a and listening, as we start podcasts Here’s how it’s going to work: Contributing Writers website since 1997, and dabbled in and other multimedia goodies. • First, we’re happy to announce, DOUG ADAMS publishing and even documentary I have never been so grateful to we’re returning to our original STEPHEN ARMSTRONG filmmaking. But all things change everyone for making real a simple “monthly” status. Well, “monthly” JOHN BENDER and this issue will be the last printed dream of a teenager: that those of us meaning 10 issues per year. But JEFF ELDRIDGE edition of Film Score Monthly— who liked movie music could find expect timely delivery, and the two LUKE GOLJAN though all of our other operations companionship and understanding. split issues (traditionally April/ MARK GRIFFIN will continue, and then some. 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So you can cancel DARREN MACDONALD this print magazine to go on forever, with a good score. anytime if you want, without R. MIKE MURRAY it has to come to an end. having to deal with any leftover MIKE PETERSEN Around a month ago—when we subscription fees. SAUL PINCUS sent letters to our subscribers offering Lukas Kendall • Each month, you’ll receive an email KYLE RENICK them free CDs for issues not yet announcing that the latest edition BRIAN SATTERWHITE received (if you did not get a letter, it of FSM Online is available. Then... WILL SHAW means your subscription is expiring • Go to the FSM Online site (which ROBERT L. SMITH now, so we’re all square)—I thought Welcome to FSM Online! you’ll also be able to reach through STEPHEN WOOLSTON that would be the end of it. No more i folks, Tim and Jon here (and www.filmscoremonthly.com), CARY WONG FSM. 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