Film and TV music

Fall means back to school. This week's Flicks in Five highlights the story of a beloved school teacher as he recounts his career and personal life over the years.

John Powell composed the music for 2018’s ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story,’ making him only the second composer other than John Williams to score a Star Wars movie. Learn more about him.

Morricone's score for 'The Mission' eclipses the film's gorgeous and award-winning cinematography.

The Minnesota Orchestra is presenting Michael Giacchino's complete score to the 2009 'Star Trek' reboot. It's a very different kind of score than others the orchestra has presented in recent years.

On this week's Flicks in Five, Lynne Warfel shares music from the great film composer Max Steiner.

As 'Alien: Covenant' opens in movie theaters, Garrett Tiedemann looks back on four decades of scores for films in this terrifying science fiction franchise.

Howard Shore has recorded and composed music for about 80 films, including for the massive trilogy, 'The Lord of the Rings.' These days, Shore is writing more concert music. Shore's new recording features two of them, including a piano concerto on which Lang Lang is the soloist.

Only 3% of film scores are written by women. When will that change?

The 1990s were a time of transition in movie music - although you wouldn't know that from the decade's list of Oscar winners.

The '80s are associated with swooning synths, but in cinemas, composers were riding high on symphonic sound championed by John Williams. For that reason, the decade's soundtracks included some of the greatest orchestral writing of the late 20th century.