Tim Greiving
[Copyright 2024 NPR]
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Richard Sherman, along with his brother Robert became Disney Studios' first ever in-house songwriters. We have a remembrance of the Oscar-winning songwriter, who has died at the age of 95.
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The movie Hook is now a family favorite, in spite of weak reviews when it came out in 1991. Originally intended as a musical, the film's demo songs are now available in a new recording.
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There's a third Creed movie in theaters, which technically makes it the ninth Rocky movie. And a new Rocky movie means... a new training montage.
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The Exilarte Center in Vienna is the world's leading research institution devoted to preserving the work of composers such as Walter Arlen and others, who were exiled or killed during the Holocaust.
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Prey, the new prequel to the 1987 blockbuster Predator streaming on Hulu, features a sophisticated soundtrack influenced both by Native cultures and video games
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Mike Stoller and Jerry Leiber wrote hit songs for Elvis, along with a whos-who of other artists including Big Mama Thornton, Ben E. King, and more.
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John Williams' score was, true to form, unforgettable — as Jeff Goldblum remembers in an interview with NPR.
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Tamar-kali, who composed the music for Mudbound and Shirley, has a new project: an opera that you can watch online.
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The National frontman Matt Berninger and his wife Carin Besser wrote the lyrics, and twin brothers Aaron and Bryce Dessner scored the movie.
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Deep in the heart of Texas, the Kronos Quartet reflects on race relations and social unrest with At War with Ourselves – 400 Years of You, by composer Michael Abels and poet Nikky Finney.