LINKS
This list doesn't have everything available relating to film music.
It is a selective list of the recommended sites with information about professional organizations, films, film composers, record labels and mail order outlets, review sites, and film magazines.
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Professional Organizations
ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES: http://www.oscars.org
ASCAP Film and Television (The Biz, Legends, Awards): http://www.ascap.com/index.html
THE FILM MUSIC SOCIETY (formerly The Society for the Preservation of Film Music). They publish a newsletter and journal, "The Cue Sheet" (Jon Burlingame, editor). Visit their web site at: http://www.filmmusicsociety.org
THEMES & VARIATIONS (John Waxman's site for concert scores of film music for professional orchestras): http://www.tnv.net
This category has been added with only a few of the many websites.
More will be added later.
NEW! CINEMA RETRO
A colorful and fascinating website celebrating films of the 1960s and 1970s, including film scores and composers, in a lively news format with many photos: http://www.cinemaretro.com/index.php
CLASSIC MOVIES
Brad Lang's extensive primary destination for fans of classic Hollywood films, actors, actresses, and directors, including feature articles, annotated links, humor, quizzes, DVD reviews,
a forum, a weekly newsletter and more:
http://www.classicmovies.org
THE INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE
A huge source of information that does contain some errors, but is the place to go
in search of actors, actresses and film titles:
http://www.imdb.com
Film Composers
JOHN BEAL'S OFFICIAL WEBSITE - latest news and reviews from this Bronze Age film composer: http://www.composerjohnbeal.com
ELMER BERNSTEIN OFFICIAL WEBSITE - tastefully designed with detailed information about this film composer and conductor: http://www.elmerbernstein.com
THE BERNARD HERRMANN SOCIETY - extensive listings of Herrmann's work on radio, film and television: http://www.uib.no/herrmann
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD - one of the great film composers from Hollywood's Golden Age:
http://www.korngold-society.org
RANDY NEWMAN'S OFFICIAL WEBSITE - quirky songs and sensitive scores from this popular film composer: http://www.randynewman.com
THE MIKLOS ROZSA SOCIETY - includes The Rozsa Forum messageboard: www.miklosrozsa.org
DIMITRI TIOMKIN OFFICIAL WEBSITE - classy design for music by this popular past film composer and songwriter : http://www.dimitritiomkin.com/news.cfm
FRANZ WAXMAN - official website of this Golden Age composer and conductor: http://www.franzwaxman.com
MICHAEL WHALEN - a composer for film and television: http://www.michaelwhalen.com
JOHN WILLIAMS - Ricard Befan's very informative site with the latest news: http://jwfan.net
Recommended Review Sites -
these are all worth a look...
CINEMUSIC (Ryan Keaveney): www.cinemusic.net
FILM MUSIC ON THE WEB (Michael McClennan/Gary Dalkin/ Ian Lace): www.musicweb.uk.net/film/
FILMTRACKS (Christian Clemmensen): www.filmtracks.com
GOLDEN SCORES (Bregt De Lange and Thomas Kiefner): www.goldenscores.com
MFILES (Jim Paterson): www.mfiles.co.uk
MOVIE MUSIC (Peter Kelly): www.moviemusic.com
MOVIE MUSIC UK (Jonathan Broxton): www.moviemusicuk.us
MOVIE SOUNDTRACK WEB PAGE (Scott Frost): www.qwato.com/scores
MOVIE WAVE (James Southall): www.movie-wave.net
MUSIC FROM THE MOVIES (Mikael Carlsson): www.musicfromthemovies.com
MUSIC ON FILM (Jonathan Shearon): www.musiconfilm.net
NEW! RUNMOVIES (Jeannot Boever, Luxembourg/ Jean Frere, Belgium): www.runmovies.eu/
SOUNDTRACK.NET (Dan Goldwasser): www.soundtrack.net
Record Labels and Mail Order Outlets
BUYSOUNDTRAX.COM - Prometheus Records and others labels, including autographed merchandise: www.buysoundtrax.com
GNP CRESCENDO: www.gnpcrescendo.com
INTRADA - CDs available from Current Catalog, Excalibur Releases, Featured Releases, The Archives: www.intrada.com
MONSTROUS MOVIE MUSIC - excellent vintage sci-fi soundtrack restorations: www.mmmrecordings.com
MOVIE SCORE MEDIA - featuring older and new soundtracks by lesser known composers: www.moviescoremedia.com
NAXOS - excellent series of Classic Film Music releases formerly on Marco Polo, now released on Naxos: www.naxos.com
RHINO - superb soundtrack restorations of mostly musicals in Rhino Movie Music/Turner collaboration: www.rhino.com
SCREEN ARCHIVES ENTERTAINMENT - one of the best sources for new releases and rare items: www.screenarchives.com
SILVA SCREEN RECORDS: www.silvascreen.co.uk
SILVA SCREEN RECORDS AMERICA - North American representative: www.fourquartersent.com
VARESE SARABANDE RECORDS - highly respected record label with new releases and releases of classic film scores: www.VareseSarabande.com
Other Recommended Links
Cinematic Sound (Erik Woods) - a weekly Canadian radio show featuring soundtracks, including On-Demand programs.
Hollywood Symphony Orchestra Society (John Scott, music director) - devoted to film music and other orchestral music.
Film Score Monthly (Lukas Kendall & Scott Bettencourt) - a site worth visiting regularly for its Film Score Daily column and a lively messageboard. The magazine is now available online only and there are an excellent series of restored original soundtracks released from FSM.
Film Music Review (The Sammy Awards) listed at:
Classic Movies (March 17, 2006)
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