Adele sends this in: On Bank Holiday Monday 30 May, Simon Bates will be counting down the Top 40 Movie Soundtracks, as voted for by you! And if you vote today, you’ll go into the draw for a massive box of 41 CDs of the greatest movie music collections, courtesy of Silva Screen Records. The box will include boxed-sets of CDs featuring the essential music of John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner, John Barry, Howard Shore, Max Steiner, Maurice Jarre, Star Wars and Stanley Kubrick films and much more. All you have to do is vote for your favourite movie music of all time. [More]
Day: April 24, 2005
Turgon writes: Verlyn Flieger’s new book on Tolkien, Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien’s Mythology, is just out from Kent State University Press ($18.00, trade paperback ISBN 0873388240). Here’s the publisher’s blurb from the back of the book: The content of Tolkien’s mythology, the Silmarillion, has been the subject of considerable exploration and analysis for many years, but the logistics of its development have been mostly ignored and deserve closer investigation. [More]