The multiple award-winning Hollywood composer Alexandre Desplat will return to Vienna on January 29, 2022, to conduct a selection of his award-winning screen compositions in the Great Hall of the […]
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Author: Anton Smit
Anton is the founder of Soundtrack World. After writing about film music occasionally, he thought it was time to create his own site to celebrate music from film but also other media. Next to working on this website, Anton is a member of the International Film Music Critics Association, has a job in IT and plays the tuba in a local orchestra.
My Best Friend Anne Frank – Merlijn Snitker
As is true for so many countries, the Second World War was horrendous for people in the Netherlands, and terrible stories can be told about that period. One of the […]
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Gino Taihuttu wins Golden Calf for best music
The Golden Calf (Gouden Kalf in Dutch) is the award of the Dutch Film Festival. Like most of these awards, there are many categories. But for this site, we are […]
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‘Game Music’ – 2021-09-24, Groningen
It makes me very happy to see concerts starting to appear again as the pandemic seems to be coming to an end. This is not only true for me, to […]
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Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Kevin Kiner
If you ask a random person who composed the most Star Wars music, the answer will probably be John Williams. To be honest, that would be the first name that […]
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Film Music Festival Gala 2021 – 2021-08-28, Krakow
I organize all my concert and festival reports in folders on a drive, one for each year. This report is the first one I am writing in 2021 and that […]
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The Suicide Squad – John Murphy
The choice for a movie title is sometimes a bit confusing, as is the case with the latest movie in the DC Universe: The Suicide Squad. This movie takes place […]
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Jungle Cruise – James Newton Howard
Disney and James Newton Howard are apparently getting along very well business-wise. After a superb score for Raya and the Last Dragon earlier this year, he also wrote the music […]
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Loki – Natalie Holt
When a new Marvel production is announced, I am always curious to see if the composer is a Marvel veteran or a newcomer to the franchise. The latter is the […]
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Masters of the Universe: Revelation – Volume 1 – Bear McCreary
If you are around my age, there is a good chance that you grew up with ‘80s cartoons like Transformers, MASK and G.I.Joe, which were basically commercials in disguise for […]
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