James Newton Howard Alan Silvestri Carter Burwell Jan A. P. Kaczmarek and More Composers Describe Their Recent Hits Plus Reviews and More
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Volume 10, Number 1 Original Music Soundtracks for Movies and Television MAX MEMORIES pg 24 The BEST and the Rest FSM’s Annual Roundup of the Year That Was James Newton Howard Alan Silvestri Carter Burwell Jan A. P. Kaczmarek And More Composers Describe Their Recent Hits Plus Reviews and More $7.95 U.S. • $8.95 Canada contents January/February 2005 DEPARTMENTS COVER STORY 2 Editorial 10 The Best and Worst of 2004 The Magazine That From The Aviator to Sideways, from Harry Potter and the Almost Wasn’t. Prisoner of Azkaban to Van Helsing, and from Troy to, well, Troy, last year offered up plenty of fodder for film music 4 News fans. Now strap yourself in as our FSM contributors Hordes of Awards. chime in on the State of Film Music, 2004. 5 Record Label Round-up 10 The End of All Things! What’s on the way. By Jon & Al Kaplan 5 Now Playing 10 The way of the future. Movies and CDs in 15 The Hits...and Misses release. By Jeff Bond 6 Concerts Film music performed 18 Arbitrary Musings around the globe. By John Takis 7 Upcoming Film Assignments 19 Coulda Been a Cover! Who’s writing what By Joe Sikoryak for whom. 20 The Best of the Year 9 Mail Bag By Doug Adams Elmer. 33 Score FEATURES More reviews, includ- ing A Series of Unfortunate 24 Memories of Max 24 Recollecting the past. Events, Sideways, Alexander, FSM is proud to publish this historical interview with and Mary Poppins. Max Steiner, circa 1967. In Part 1, the Golden Age maestro talks about composing Gone With the Wind, 47 Tech Talk his relationships with Selznick, Cukor and others, To Remaster or Not to and cigars. Remaster? By Myrl A. Schreibman 36 FSM Marketplace 28 Composers of the Roundtable As part of our year-end wrap-up, today’s top film composers comment on their respective 2004 projects. By Jeff Bond 15 Living in the present. 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