Tribute Film Classics has won a Sammy Film Music Award from American Music Preservation. Bernard Herrmann’s score to THE KENTUCKIAN has won in the category of Best Newly Recorded Vintage Score.
These movie awards are named in the honor of lyricist, Sammy Cahn 1913-1993. The Sammys are announced each year for the best film music related CDs, and are chosen by Roger Hall, a respected film music historian, ASCAP composer, and author of A Guide to Film Music, and editor of Film Music Review.
Daniel Schweiger gives a capsule review in his Score Picks for January 2009 at iF Magazine.
Arthur Lintgen reviews Bernard Herrmann’s scores for THE KENTUCKIAN and WILLIAMSBURG in Fanfare Magazine. Read the review here…
The International Film Music Critics Association has nominated two of TFC’s albums THE KENTUCKIAN/WILLIAMSBURG and SHE in the category of Best Re-recording of An Existing Score.
http://filmmusiccritics.org/2009/01/ifmca-announces-its-2008-nominees-for-scoring-excellence/
Maurizio Caschetto delivers a wonderfully written article and interview featuring Anna Bonn, John Morgan, and William Stromberg. Read it here…
Classic scores given new life on disc. Music columnist, Jon Burlingame pens article in Variety about Tribute Film Classics.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117997981.html?categoryid=16&cs=1
Cinematic Sound is a three hour radio program dedicated to the music of film, television and video games. The show is hosted and produced by Erik Woods and is available On-Demand via Real Audio.
Check out the January 1, 2009 show to hear selections from THE KENTUCKIAN and WILLIAMSBURG.
Our dear friend Ray Harryhausen has featured our Bernard Herrmann albums, THE KENTUCKIAN, FAHRENHEIT 451 and MYSTERIOUS ISLAND on his news and events page. Read more here…
William Stromberg guests conducts The GSPO for Halloween Fright Night 6 on October 25, 2008 at the Warner Grand Theater in San Pedro. This concert performance is the world premiere live performance of a suite of Bernard Herrmann’s score to MYSTERIOUS ISLAND. Other selections include KING KONG, Stu Phillip’s arrangement of THE TWILIGHT ZONE, THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS among others.
SciFi.com reviewer A.L. Sirios reviews Max Steiner’s score to SHE. Read the review here…
