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Dev Patel and Freida Pinto in Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight)Oscar Scores, from Elegant to Exotic
The Oscar nominees for best song and score range from the exotic sounds of “Slumdog Millionaire” to the lush elegance of “Milk” and “Benjamin Button” to the colorful “Wall-E” and the violin-flavored “Defiance” (with soloist Joshua Bell). Today, we survey the music categories and look at who stands a shot at taking home a statuette. Also: Oregon songster M. Ward, shares his cheerful and eclectic new album "Hold Time."
The Best Original Score Poll: Vote for your favorite!
Scoring Success at the Oscars
Every year, it seems, there are complaints about the Oscars' music branch and the occasionally head-scratching nominees in the song and score Oscar categories. And the winners are anything but predictable. Today, film music historian and Variety writer Jon Burlingame walks us through the various contenders.
Variety's Eye on the Oscars: Music
Academy Awards Poll: Vote for your favorite Oscar-nominated film score
Soundcheck blog: John Schaefer's take on this year's Oscar Music
Soundcheck's Picks of the Week
Three new releases picked by the Soundcheck staff. Click here to read our full reviews -- and to download a free song from Benjy Ferree.
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Marin Alsop, conductor; Colin Currie, Percussion - Works by James MacMillan, Thomas Ades, Jennifer Higdon (LPO label) -- Picked by Brian Wise
Marco Benevento: Me Not Me
-- Picked by John Schaefer
Benjy Ferree, “Come Back to the Five and Dime, Bobby Dee, Bobby Dee” (Domino)
--picked by Joel Meyer
M. Ward Live
With critics and fans still buzzing about She & Him, his countrified team-up with actress-singer Zooey Deschanel, songwriter and guitarist Matt Ward returns to his solo stage name for a new album called "Hold Time." The disc is released this week. M. Ward joins us to perform live in our studio.
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