Composer-centered stories make for great movies. Whether we can attribute it to the enduring power of their work – "Toccata and Fugue in D minor" as we approach Halloween, Tchaikovsky’s cannonfire in ...

“His score for ‘Laura’ really turned me on to classic film music, and film scores in general,” says Karger. “And then you go back and you learn that in 1945, there were 20 Oscar nominees that year in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There were great cinema composers before John Williams and there will be great composers after him. And yet, through his ...

All of which adds to the realism, aided by Huw Wheldon’s sonorous narration of Russell’s script. The images are glorious: the recurring scenes of Elgar traversing the Malvern Hills accompanied by his ...