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Contemporary Composer

The path to Earth's orbit for Errollyn Wallen's music

A modern composer, songwriter, and singer Errollyn Wallen was recounted by The Observer as a "renaissance woman of...
FILM

The drama of The Chain kept alive on the big screen

The Chain, included on Fleetwood Mac’s classic 1977 Rumours album, has retained that particular brand of culturally...
FILM

Young Adam score captures the desolate landscape of the 50s Scotland

An adaptation of Scottish writer Alexander Trocchi's loosely autobiographical novel, Young Adam is a harsh portrait of a...
FIDDLE

Fresh take on the The Isle of Man folk tradition

The Isle of Man, or Mann, is an island in the Irish Sea which small but proud nation can boast a vast cultural heritage...
FILM

Full-method approach to the score for Shakespeare's play

The classic Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice had seen many adaptations, one of them a 2004 venture for the big...
SONGWRITER

There were no bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover

(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover is an iconic song composed in 1941 by the American songwriting... 4 comments
FILM

Orlando's director sang the score's leitmotifs

Sally Potter’s film Orlando follows the life of an eponymous, time traveling, androgynous nobleman who transforms from a...
FILM

New pragmatic Bond score by Thomas Newman

Thomas Newman, having never written a proper action score before Skyfall, succeeded in updating Bond's aesthetic with a...
LUTE

Atmospheric collaboration of medieval and modern underground on Only Lovers Left Alive

For his post-modern tale of vampires trying to find purpose in their immortal lives, Jim Jarmusch employs his own group...
Classical Guitar

Farewell to Stromness: the protest tune that fell into national consciousness

One of the most respected composers of his generation, Peter Maxwell Davies (1934–2016) bridged medieval and...