Icarus at the Edge of Time

  Title: Icarus at the Edge of Time [Live Performance] Artist: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra / Marin Alsop, Conductor Date: January 16, 2011 Style: Classical, film music Mood: Inspiring, imaginative This was a great concert for anyone who loves sci fi, space travel, and science in general. My favorite was Icarus at the Edge of Time [...]

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Disney/Pixar Greatest

Title: Disney/Pixar Greatest Guest artists: Randy Newman, Sarah McLachlan, Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Sheryl Crow, Rascal Flatts, James Taylor, Camille, Peter Gabriel Composers: Randy Newman, Michael Giacchino, Thomas Newman If you like at least half of the movies on this CD — Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Cars, Ratatouille, WALL-E, [...]

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Slumdog Millionaire

Title: Slumdog Millionaire: Music from the Motion Picture Composers: A.R. Rahman; with some songs by M.I.A. Date: 2008 Long before the advent of Hollywood, Bollywood, and film, composers labored to create scores to accompany dramatic works. A.R. Rahman follows in that same grand tradition, creating this masterpiece that highlights, underscores, and heightens the emotion in [...]

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At Home With Friends

Title: At Home with Friends Artist: Joshua Bell Date: 2009 The idea is appealing . . . renovate your Manhattan apartment with a professional yet intimate sound stage and invite your friends to perform with you. That is exactly what Joshua Bell did, and it works well, especially if you have friends like Sting, Tiempo [...]

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The Rough Guide to Bollywood

Title: The Rough Guide to Bollywood: The Glitz, the Glamour, the Soundtrack Artist: Compiled by DJ Ritu Date: 2002 After listening to this CD, I realized that just as there is no such thing as one kind of “Hollywood music,” there is no such thing as one kind of Bollywood music. This CD is a [...]

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