The Music of Oscar

Soundcheck | May 3, 2010
It’s the home stretch for Sunday’s Academy Awards. On today’s show: Our annual Oscar preview with film and music historian Jon Burlingame and Gustavo Santaolalla, the Oscar-nominated composer of “Babel.” And finally: a music critic weighs in on racial stereotyping in Dreamgirls.

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