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Movie Scores with Live Orchestras Flood the Festivals and Halls of New York, Chicago, Indiana and Virginia

More and more U.S. orchestras are playing famous movie scores while the movie is shown above. But is this a positive or negative development in symphonic music?
Richard Strauss' 150th Anniversary: Celebrations of Note in 2014

We are barely through Richard Wagner's 200th anniversary, and already, ensembles are gearing up for the sesquicentennial of one of his most famous disciples--Richard Strauss...
Lucasfilm Confirms John Williams Will Score 'Star Wars: Episode VII'

Over the weekend, at the Star Wars Celebration Europe in Germany, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy announced that--one more time, with extra feeling--John Williams will be scoring the next installment of the 'Star Wars' franchise.
The Column: A Classical Playlist for the Royal Baby…and Its Parents

Suddenly, all of my various social media bits and pieces, and a good deal of my Gmail inbox, are screaming at me that Princess Catherine (Kate, as she's known to most people who have never met her and aren't really on good enough terms...
The Column: Great Scores by Classical Film Composers

James Inverne on when film music turns classical, and classical music turns towards film. Someone once asked me at a classical music awards ceremony--one which specialized in “crossover," that strange category that was, I believe, invented just to give record shops somewhere to put all of those albums that once would have come under the then-defunct heading of “easy listening” (and what the heck does that mean?)--a really difficult question.