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Breakout composer Andrea Datzman (INSIDE OUT 2) talks about her initial rejection from film scoring industry, and what led her to persevere. How her struggle with Lyme disease threatened to upend her initial breakthrough with Michael Giacchino on INSIDE OUT, and led to a surprising new revelation about her own brain and neuropsychology. She also discusses her experience learning from Michael Giacchino as a student, during the scoring sessions for ABC’s LOST. Interview by Robert Kraft and Kenny Holmes.

In this bonus interview episode, Andrew Gordon Macpherson talks about his music and TV editing skills leading to his career scoring video games and television documentaries, including the hit Vice series DARK SIDE OF THE RING, and WHO KILLED WCW?, produced by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. How the world of professional wrestling drama created a canvas for an epic soap-opera-esque musical approach, finding ways to blend spaghetti western with zen meditation bowls, and making a sub-culture of pro wrestling drama something for the average person to be able to appreciate. Plus, the influence of Jim Johnston on the iconic music all wrestling fans know. Bonus interview by Kenny Holmes and Matt Schrader. (Note: Technical difficulties interrupted the interview several times. We have edited to trim out some of these interruptions.)

Geoff Zanelli makes his long-awaited Score debut after one of Netflix’s most watched animated films of all-time, the Adam Sandler-produced LEO. In this episode, Kenny and Robert discuss the long-awaited arrival of MAESTRO, the Leonard Bernstein biopic, which we discussed on the 2nd episode of SCORE: THE PODCAST back when it was to be directed by Spielberg. Then, Robert and Geoff reminisce about drinking absinthe in Paris, before jumping into the challenge of making Adam Sandler laugh, and the paradox of writing “funny” music in animation. Plus, Geoff talks about his path from music school to being an intern at Hans Zimmer’s Remote Control Productions in the early (Lion King era) 1990s, sitting in on Alan Meyerson mixes, and getting his first opportunities while working for John Powell on the movie Face/Off. 

Robert and Kenny start the show discussing the release of Hildur Guðnadóttir ’s score for Joker and the upcoming release of the highly-anticipated film as well as a group of music-related documentaries in theaters.

Then, Emmy-winning composer Mac Quayle joins the show to share stories of his early years in music producing reggae and dance music, why the illegal download era and an economic shift in the music industry moved him toward scoring, how he connected with Cliff Martinez to learn the industry, and takes us through his work for many hit series including Mr. Robot, American Horror Story, American Crime Story and Pose.

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Hosts: Robert Kraft & Kenny Holmes
Executive Producer: Matt Schrader
Coordinator: Carol Kuswanto

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Robert, Kenny, Matt and Carol begin the show discussing the results from this year’s EMMYs and finalizing the standings of the 2nd Annual Score: The Podcast Emmy Predictions.

Then Award-winning composer Nicholas Britell joins to share stories of how he started working with director Barry Jenkins for Moonlight without ever hearing a note of his music, staying at director Adam McKay’s pool house over the summer while working together on The Big Short, starting his path into the film music world from playing the piano at the age of five after watching Chariots of Fire, having a career detour in currency trading and sharing bizarre stories from hanging out with Robert in France for a never-released movie they worked together on.

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Hosts: Robert Kraft & Kenny Holmes
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Robert and Kenny begin the show discussing the winning composers at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards and checking the standings of the 2nd Annual Score: The Podcast Emmy Predictions.

Then Award-winning composer Marco Beltrami shares the story of his first big break on Wes Craven's Scream, details importance of his longtime partner and collaborator Buck Sanders, getting hired by Robert on his first blockbuster film I,Robot, crafting his Emmy-winning score for the Oscar-winning documentary Free Solo and sharing his excitement for what he calls his greatest work to date in Ford v Ferrari.

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Robert and Kenny begin the show joined by Matt Schrader and Carol Kuswanto for the show's annual Emmy predictions. The group makes predictions for seven categories: Drama Series, Comedy Series, Limited Series, Original Main Title Theme Music, Music - Limited Series, Music - Documentary Series, Music - Series.

Then 5x Emmy-winning composer and current Emmy nominee Jeff Beal joins the show telling the story of getting fired on his first hit TV show Monk, winning the Emmy for main title theme, then getting rehired. Jeff also discusses his working relationship with David Fincher on the Netflix hit series House of Cards and exclusively reveals his first sketch of the main title theme.

Lastly, Jeff join the guys for a special round of #NameThatScore with a "westerns" theme.

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Hosts: Robert Kraft & Kenny Holmes
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In this bonus episode, Robert and Kenny are joined by legendary sound recordist Chris Watson. Chris tells stories of his incredible and sometimes dangerous travels across all seven continents on earth, his process of recording the sounds used in Hildur Guðnadóttir's haunting score for Chernobyl and why he says sometimes the most important thing you can do is listen.

Hosts: Robert Kraft & Kenny Holmes
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Coordinator: Carol Kuswanto

Copyright 2019 Score: The Podcast

Robert and Kenny start off the show by discussing the announcement of Avengers: Endgame passing Avatar to become the highest-grossing movie of all time, big trailer releases including Top Gun: Maverick and Cats, then they are joined by pianist Marcos Bocanegra who was invited to be on The Ellen Show after a video of him playing the piano at Costco went viral. 

Then legendary composer, music producer and 3x Oscar-winner Giorgio Moroder and his collaborator, composer Raney Shockne join us to share the stories behind their collaboration on Queen of the South, how Giorgio created the sounds and changed film music with his scores for Midnight Express and Scarface, writing iconic original songs for film including Top Gun and Flashdance, working with Daft Punk for the 2014 Grammy-winning album of the year Random Access Memories and designing a sports car in his free time.

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Hosts: Robert Kraft & Kenny Holmes
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Robert and Kenny begin the show by discussing the announcement of Settling The Score: David Arnold vs. Michael Giacchino concert and upcoming hot releases including The Lion King and The Art of Self-Defense.

Then award-winning composer Nathan Barr (True Blood, The Americans, The House with a Clock in Its Walls, Carnival Row) joins to share the story of starting his path to film music world with a crazy trip of driving a school bus from New York to Brazil, restoring the original Wurlitzer organ from the Fox scoring stage that was used by Bernard Herrmann in Journey to the Center of the Earth and John Williams in Empire of the Sun, breaks down his writing process for The Americans and building the amazing Bandrika Studios.

This episode is presented by Spitfire Audio

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Hosts: Robert Kraft & Kenny Holmes
Executive Producer: Matt Schrader
Coordinator: Carol Kuswanto

Copyright 2019 Score: The Podcast