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Saturday, February 7, 2026

Behind the Oscar-Nominated Songs From Documentaries 'Viva Verdi' and Diane Warren by Jon Burlingame

For only the second time in Academy Awards history, two of the five nominated songs are from documentaries"and one of them is an aria performed an opera star, also only the second time durin…

SOURCE: Variety at 01:05PM[SHARE]

Monday, January 12, 2026

Character Counts: Songs in the Oscar Race Go Beyond Just Being Pretty Tunes by Jon Burlingame

The best movie songs are the ones that illuminate character, summarize the story or otherwise add a new dimension to the film experience. More than in most years, in 2025 there was a bumper …

SOURCE: Variety at 03:35PM[SHARE]

Friday, December 5, 2025

Off the Beaten Path: Composers Delve Into Unusual, Even Wacky, Instruments and Techniques for Awards-Worthy Scores by Jon Burlingame

Cast and crew breathing and vocalizing together. Banging giant metal plates in a London warehouse. Inventing impressionistic vocal colors for the Elizabethan era. Hiring a 90-piece orchestra…

SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PM[SHARE]

Monday, July 7, 2025

New Hollywood String Quartet Pays Homage to Legendary Original Chamber-Music Group by Jon Burlingame

Back in the 1950s, four Los Angeles musicians were widely acclaimed as the finest performers of chamber music in America. They called themselves the Hollywood String Quartet, because they sp…

SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PM[SHARE]

Thursday, June 26, 2025

Lalo Schifrin, Prolific Film Composer Who Wrote 'Mission: Impossible' Theme, Dies at 93 by Jon Burlingame

Lalo Schifrin, the Grammy-winning composer of "Mission: Impossible" and film scores including "Cool Hand Luke," "Dirty Harry" and "Bullitt," died Thursday of complications from pneumonia. He…

SOURCE: Variety at 03:49PM[SHARE]

Friday, June 6, 2025

Seth MacFarlane Breaks Down 'Lush Life,' His New Album With Previously Unreleased Frank Sinatra Arrangements by Jon Burlingame

Seth MacFarlane's new album "Lush Life: The Lost Sinatra Arrangements," released today on Republic/Verve, finds the singer and "Family Guy" creator back in Frank Sinatra territory " not only…

SOURCE: Variety at 09:30AM[SHARE]

Thursday, June 10, 2021

'In the Heights' Music Producers Tell How the Songs Transitioned from Stage to Screen by Jon Burlingame

"In the Heights," Lin-Manuel Miranda's tale of the immigrant community of New York's Washington Heights, will be released on Friday. Its four Tony Awards for the original Broadway show inclu…

SOURCE: Variety at 09:49PM[SHARE]

Friday, April 12, 2019

Composers Converse as Season Two of 'Score: The Podcast' Launches by Jon Burlingame

"Score: The Podcast" is perhaps the most popular of the many film-music series in the audio marketplace. Helmed by Oscar-nominated composer Robert Kraft and Emmy-winning news producer Kenny …

SOURCE: Variety at 12:31PM[SHARE]

Saturday, June 4, 2016

After playing on-screen dad to Molly, Helen and Julia, Paul Dooley gets to play himself by Jon Burlingame

You probably know him as the grumpy dad of the Italophile bicycle racer in "Breaking Away." Or as Molly Ringwald's understanding dad in "Sixteen Candles." Or as the long-suffering dad who wa…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:58PM[SHARE]

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