What's the Score Podcast

Guest: Composer Eimear Noone

Our guest, Eimear Noone is an award winning composer for film and video games. She is viewed as one of the world's premier composers for video games for such games as World of Warcraft. For films, she has worked with Directors such as Gus Van Sant and Joe Dante. Her talents include being an in demand conductor as evidenced by becoming the first female conductor to perform at the 2020 Academy Awards. She has some great choices of favorite scores and we hear some of her work as well for her latest film Two by Two Overboard.

Tribute for Sir Sean Connery

In a career that spanned over 4 decades, Sir Sean Connery established himself as an actor with incredible range. While he will always be known as "James Bond", his credits over his career showed an actor capable of so much more. In addition to the Bond films, his other films included such diverse topics as The Hill, The Wind and the Lion, The Man who would be King, Robin and Marion, Outland, The Untouchables (won Oscar for best Supporting Actor), The Hunt for Red October, The Rock and so many more. In honor of his life, we play cues from his films that feature composers such as Jerry Goldsmith, Maurice Jarre, Ennio Morricone and John Barry. Join us for a trip down memory lane as we celebrate the career of Sir Sean Connery.

Guest: Warren Ringham Q the Music

We have a returning guest for a good reason. Warren Ringham's Q the Music band has done a unprecedented series of videos that are concerts of music from the James Bond films. There ability to precisely recreate the cues from the scores of the films are....unbelievable. You must hear to believe. Hear some behind the scenes notes on the project as well as some terrific cues from the films. This is a must hear episode of What's the Score!

Guest: Composer Jeff Beal

Jeff Beal is one of the most prolific and successful composers in Hollywood today. With over 100 credits to his name, for documentaries, feature films and TV, his versatility is amazing. If you want to know just how good he is....count the 18 Emmy nominations and 5 Emmy awards...yes he's that good. We explore writing for film, TV and docs and the different challenges that are faced. We talk a lot about storytelling. And we even learn some deeply personal things about this amazing man. Please DOWNLOAD and enjoy hearing from Jeff Beal and his music.

Guest: Composer Lee Holdridge

Lee Holdridge is our guest for our next episode. He has written for short films, theater and opera before becoming prolific in composing for scores and arranging for solo artists. He scores include Mr. Mom, Splash, The Beastmaster,  and TV shows such as Into Thin Air, East of Eden and Moonlighting ( he wrote the popular theme tune for this). Our discussion was wide ranging and fascinating as we discussed his work with Neil Diamond, John Denver as well as the scores he wrote. The stories were free flowing and lead to a great conversation coupled with some of his terrific compositions. Please Download and listen at your convenience. 

Guest: Director Matt Schrader (Documentary "Score") plus some great music

From season 1, an episode with my choices of music from Barry, Newman, Mancini, and more. Plus OI talk with the director of the documentary "Score". This film is required viewing for all film music fans!

Guest: Filmmaker Lee Chambers

Lee Chambers is a professor of film in Canada but has also managed to be involved in over 2000  short films. He's been a juror for numerous film festivals around the world. He's also managed to win several awards for his writing and directing. His first feature he directed is out now on Amazon called "The Pineville Heist".

Guest: John Barry Groupie Ian MacDonald

PLEASE DOWNLOAD AND LISTEN AT YOUR LEISURE.  If film composers can have groupies, then our guest on this episode would fit the bill. It's my name for him and I use it affectionately. From the earliest uears of the career of John Barry, our guest Ian McDonald followed his every move practically so he could know what the next great score would be. As a result, he has amazing knowledge of the composer coupled with terrific stories of his adventures as a groupie. His choices for cues to play are sure to delight Barry fans and film music fans in general. NOTE: WE HAD TROUBLE GETTING A CLEAR CONNECTION TO OUR GUEST BUT HAVE TRIED TO CORRECT IT BEST WE CAN. WE APLOLGIZE FOR ANY INCONVIENENCE. 

WTS 3.19 Celebration of the life and career of Ennio Morricone

PLEASE DOWNLOAD and listen at your convenience. A celebration of the life and career of one of cinema's music giants, Ennio Morricone, who died this July. Several of our past guests join us to share their thoughts on the maestro as well as some terrific music. Despite Frank's horrible attempt at Italian, you're sure to enjoy this tribute to one of the great composers of all time.

Guest Jonathan Isaac Jackson WTS 3.17

PLEASE DOWNLOAD AND LISTEN AT YOUR LEISURE Our guest on the next episode of What's the Score is filmmaker Jonathan Isaac Jackson. A rising talent, who is based in New Orleans, Jonathan has made dozens of short films, some of which are award winning, which have been screened at film festivals around the world. One such example is his film, Conversation with the Devil, which happens to co star...yours truly! His selections of scores is diverse and sure to please with composers such as Henry Mancini, Stevie Wonder and Johann Johanssen. Check it out!