One of the events during the 2018 edition of the Krakow Film Music Festival was a concert by TORREK, a band that fuses Irish and Icelandic folk music. The members […]
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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.
Dumbo – Danny Elfman
At the moment Disney is going through a recycling phase, during which they are remaking many of their classic animated films. The new version of Beauty and the Beast was […]
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De Avond van de Filmmuziek – 2019-03-29, Amsterdam
“De Avond van de Filmmuziek” (Evening of Film Music) is the biggest film music concert we have in the Netherlands and this year we were celebrating its 5th birthday. The […]
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Cold Pursuit – George Fenton
The only thing I knew about the movie Cold Pursuit was that actor Liam Neeson was on both the movie poster and, of course, the cover of the soundtrack. With […]
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Captain Marvel – Pinar Toprak
Many composers of fame have had the honor of writing music for a superhero movie in the Marvel universe. They were all very different composers and have written music in […]
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Interview with Austin Wintory and Angela Bermúdez
The gala concert of the 2018 edition of the Krakow Film Music Festival was dedicated to music from games. One of the guests is one of the biggest names in […]
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Alita: Battle Angel – Tom Holkenborg
When I review a new score, I really have to dive deep into the music to find out what kind of themes there are, what they represent and how they […]
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BUMA Awards 2019 for Schimmer and Maat
Every year the BUMA Awards are awarded in The Netherlands. This year two Dutch film composers received an award: Martijn Schimmer won the Multi-Media Oeuvre Award Guido Maat won the […]
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Joe Hisaishi – Paris
The Japanese composer Joe Hisaishi is someone who usually does not travel outside of Japan that often, but in recent years I have seen announcements for many of his concerts […]
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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World – John Powell
For the last couple of years, there hasn’t been a soundtrack I was waiting for more than the one from the last movie in the How to Train Your Dragon […]
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