Film and TV music

On this week's Flicks in Five, Lynne Warfel shares music from the 1953 American biblical epic, 'The Robe', starring Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, and with music from Alfred Newman.

John Williams's score has been kept under wraps as tightly as everything else about the new Star Wars movie 'The Force Awakens.' Here are ten things we know about the film's music.

Say what you will about the Star Wars prequels, one indisputably great thing about them is the score by returning hero John Williams. Has that music been unfairly neglected?

Today's release of 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay -- Part 2' closes the book on one of the most successful YA series-to-film franchises in history. One of the most overlooked backbones of the films' success is the score by longtime composer James Newton Howard.

How did John Williams's 'Star Wars' music reach number one on the pop charts? Meco's hit single 'Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band' was just one of a number of pop interpretations of the score.

Legendary director Martin Scorsese is planning to direct a movie about the life of Leonard Bernstein. Who should star?

Throughout this weekend we're playing the best scores from your favorite scary movies.

It's the time of the year when we think about scary movies, so you might want to turn on an extra light or two, although Lynne Warfel's pick this week may make you laugh: it's the 1974 Mel Brooks comedy, 'Young Frankenstein', featuring music by John Morris.

To score a new documentary about the art-world Impressionists, composer Stephen Baysted took musical Impressionism as a starting point.

One of the most successful movie studios in Hollywood is actually located 374 miles north of Los Angeles. Pixar Animation Studios is headquartered in Emeryville - across the Bay from San Francisco. Its physical distance from the center of the movie business is just one factor in why this studio doesn't seem to function like all the others.