Knowing the Score

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The Art of Film Music -- You Can't Go Home Again: David Shire on Return to Oz -- Suspicion Breeds Confidence: Michael Kamen on Brazil -- Getting a Foot in the Door -- Unto the Breach: Patrick Doyle on Henry V -- Scissors Cur Paper Wraps Stone: Collaboration -- Backward Prison Gangs, Scandinavian Hymns, "Danny Boy," and Yodeling: Carter Burwell on the Coen Brothers -- Immersion: Beginning the Process -- Bait-and-Switch: Elmer Bernstein on The Grifters -- Collaboration with Other Composers -- A Friend Like Me: Alan Menken on Howard Ashman and the Rebirth of the Film Musical -- Bending the Rules -- Sounds of Apocalypse: John Corigliano on Altered States -- Life in Transformation: Phillip Glass on Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi -- The Driving Force: Elia Cmiral on Ronin -- Period Pieces -- Steeping Yourself in the Culture: Carter Burwell on Rob Roy -- Mythmaker: Basil Poledouris on Conan the Barbarian -- The Shape of the Sound: Orchestration -- Carnival of the Animals: Mark Isham on Never Cry Wolf and Fly Away Home -- It's "The Francie Brady Show": Elliot Goldenthal on The Butcher Boy -- Adaptation -- Everything Old Is New Again: Elmer Bernstein on Reinventing Cape Fear -- Dream State: Jocelyn Pook on Eyes Wide Shut -- Like a Duet: Patrick Doyle on Love's Labour's Lost -- Recording -- Coda -- The Organic Score -- A Reflection, Like the Moon on Water: Philip Glass on Kundun -- Playing with Paradoxes: Mychael Danna on The Sweet Hereafter -- Provenance: John Corigliano on The Red Violin -- I'll Show Thee Wondrous Things, That Highly May Advantage Thee to Hear: Elliot Goldenthal on Titus -- Lost and Found: Robert Townson on Alex North, 2001, and the Art of the Soundtrack Album.