Introducing the Critic: Tomasz Ludward

Tell us a little about your background, both personally and professionally. How did you first discover film music? I can’t remember exactly when I first noticed film without music, music with film, and music without film. I won’t be original here, but as a boy, maybe ten or eleven ...

Joseph Metcalfe and the Simi Valley Symphony Orchestra

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by Jon Broxton It isn’t every day that one gets to hear a film music concert in small-town America, especially if the small town is the one in which you currently live, and even more especially one conducted by a World Soundtrack Award-winning composer, but that’s what happened on ...

Introducing the Critic: Charlie Brigden

Tell us a little about your background, both personally and professionally. How did you first discover film music? I grew up in Minehead, a resort town on the south-west coast of England. It was kind of quaint, and to get most things that couldn’t be found in the local ...

Remembering Lalo Schifrin

by Jason Drury Lalo Schifrin has always been there. Schifrin, who passed away on the 27th June 2025 aged 93, did not have the cultish fandom as some of his contemporaries of the same era, but his work in the film and TV industry has always been regarded with ...

Introducing the Critic: Mike Rumpf

Tell us a little about your background, both personally and professionally. How did you first discover film music? I grew up in northern Germany in a small city on the North Sea coast. In the eighties, I used to be a big fan of the synth pop of that ...
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