Score Cue Snapshots!
Every Monday and Wednesday, SCORE CUE SNAPSHOTS brings you iconic scenes married to the corresponding score cue without dialogue and SFX, thus allowing anyone to appreciate how the score works with what you see unfold on-screen.
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Ep. 8 - Thomas Newman's 'Road to Perdition'
Enjoy a masterful score by composer Thomas Newman, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 2002.
Road to Perdition is the soundtrack, on the Decca Records label, of the 2002 Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated film starring Tyler Hoechlin, Tom Hanks, Jen...
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Ep. 7 - James Newton Howard's 'Hidalgo'
Enjoy this masterful score cue by James Newton Howard from the 2004 film, Hidalgo. Within this cue you get to experience a variety of emotions, from the thrill of the race, the fear, tension, and ultimately the unspoken bond between Frank T. Hopkins and his horse. By the time the scene ends, you ...
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Ep. 6 - Jerry Goldsmith's 'The Russia House'
Enjoy Jerry Goldsmith's incredible score to Fred Schepisi's 'The Russsia House', which came out in 1990. This score mixed Russian music and jazz to complement each character and scene in the film. In this cue, you can hear Branford Marsalis on soprano saxophone. There is nothing quite like it.
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Ep. 5 - Alan Silvestri's 'Dutch'
Enjoy this beautiful, jazzy main title cue from the 1991 film 'Dutch'.
In his ongoing, decades-long career as a composer, Alan Silvestri has blazed an innovative trail with his exciting and melodic scores, winning the applause of Hollywood and movie audiences the world over. With a credit list ...
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Ep. 4 - Elliot Goldenthal's 'Final Fantasy'
Goldenthal describes this soundtrack as combining "orchestration techniques associated with the late 20th-century Polish avant-garde, as well as my own experiments from Alien 3, and 19th-century Straussian brass and string instrumentation."
Elliot Goldenthal is a composer of contemporary classic...
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Ep. 3 - John Williams' 'Far and Away'
The music of Far and Away was composed and conducted by composer John Williams. The expansive score features a mixture of traditional Irish instrumentation and conventional orchestra, creating one of the most memorable scores ever written.
Where to watch: https://letterboxd.com/film/far-and-away...
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Ep. 2 - Anastasia's 'Before The Rain'
Anastasia is a Macedonian music group formed in 1987. Their music is a blend combining Byzantine past, through Eastern Orthodox Church music, with a rich blend of ethnic Macedonian music rhythms.
Academy-Award nominated "Before The Rain", directed by Milcho Manchevski, features a very rich tape...
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Ep. 1 - Philippe Sarde's 'The Tenant'
Philippe Sarde used what is called a "glass harmonica" to create the unique sound found in this cue. A glass harmonica can be a number of different glass instruments, where the glass is made to vibrate by the friction of the player’s fingers. Very few people in the world can play it.
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