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Film Music Has a home

www.VareseSarabande.com

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STEVEN ALLEN FOX, CONDUCTOR

THE GSPO CHORALELED BY MAESTRA MARYA BASARABA

VICTOR PESAVENTO, MUSIC DIRECTOR

PRODUCED AND HOSTED BY ROBERT TOWNSON

SOLOIST: SARA ANDON, FLUTE

WITH SPECIAL GUESTSANN MARIE CALHOUN

JOHN DEBNEYCLIFF EIDELMANDANNY ELFMAN

MICHAEL GIACCHINOMARK ISHAM

CHRISTOPHER LENNERTZJOEL McNEELY

DIEGO NAVARROJOHN POWELL BRIAN TYLER

HANS ZIMMER

MAY 11, 2013WARNER GRAND THEATER

Expect the unexpected

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May 10, 2008

front row: MICHAEL GIACCHINO, LALO SCHIFRIN, MARC SHAIMAN, RICHARD M. SHERMANsecond row: MARK ISHAM, JAN A.P. KACZMAREK, CHRISTOPHER YOUNG, EDWARD SHEARMUR

third row: CHRISTOPHE BECK, BRIAN TYLER, MYCHAEL DANNA, CHARLES BERNSTEIN, JOHN FRIZZELL, ROBERT TOWNSON, JOHN DEBNEY, MATTHEW JOSEPH PEAK

fourth row: DON DAVIS, CLIFF EIDELMAN, JOHN OTTMAN, RICHARD KRAFT, MARCO BELTRAMI, JOEL MCNEELY, TREVOR RABIN

upper left: ROBERT TOWNSON, STEVEN ALLEN FOX,

ALAN SILVESTRIabove: ROBERT TOWNSON,

SARA ANDON, LEE HOLDRIDGE

left: ANA MOLOWNYROBERT TOWNSON,

TENERIFE SYMPHONY

Welcome to Varèse Sarabande’s 35th Anniversary Concert Gala!There are film music fans all over the world tonight who wish they could be occupying the

seat you are currently in, but you are the lucky ones. What a night this is going to be!The forces that have come together for the show you are about to see are remarkable.

There is so much more history represented in tonight’s program than merely the last 35 years.This evening is really about the entire history of film music. We’ll be enjoying theperformances of a select few … some of my best friends, who just happen to the masters ofmodern film music. And we’ll hear the music of those I dearly miss … legends of the art form— the immortals.

As I’ve said before, the great thing about celebrating Varèse Sarabande history is that, forus, the spotlight is always on the composers. Tonight is, without question, about them. Allof them! We could never represent everyone. That’s been the hardest part about puttingtogether this programme. I started with a list of well over 1500 scores — closer to 2000,actually. I had to reduce that to 20, which ended up being about 30. But that’s the nature ofconcerts. In addition to the superstars of film music who will soon be taking the stage, thehonorees of tonight’s celebration most certainly include the composers who are not on theprogramme. Some are here; so many are spread far and wide … all over the world. But theyare all part of this and they all deserve to take a bow.

The composers have always been film music’s royalty, but we need the full court for whatwe do. I have been blessed to work with dozens of orchestras from all over the world andthousands of musicians. Certainly there have been musicians from every continent, andprobably very nearly every country. There are the contractors, on whom all of the composersrely to assemble the musicians for each new score; and the music preparation, librarian andcopyist teams — these are just a few of the invaluable people behind the scenes. And it goeson — endless lists, upon lists — choirs, singers, conductors, and recording engineers. Thedirectors and writers who have contributed liner notes … and the artists who’ve painted thecovers. Of course there are the composers’ agents and publicists; the music departmentheads at all the film studios … even the lawyers! We’ve needed everyone and they have allbeen there for us. Year after year. It’s a big industry, but also a close-knit one. So much ofwhat I do is based on personal relationships. Working with friends. There are truly no wordsto express the degree of gratitude I hold for them, so to everyone I simply say, thank you.

Thank you also to the Golden State Pops Orchestra, Artistic Director Steven Allen Fox,Music Director Victor Pesavento and the entire GSPO team. I have been so touched byeveryone’s incredible enthusiasm for helping me celebrate the music we all love. This is avery special organization and I am honored to have had the Varèse anniversary tour beginright here at home, with this orchestra.

We have a special soloist, too. The remarkable flute virtuoso Sara Andon is with us tonight.Her performances on the scoring stages of Los Angeles have made her one of the most in-demand flutists in town, while her acclaim around the world is soaring. Believe me … you arein for such a treat!

This evening will soon be a memory that we all will share forever. It will pass far too quickly.Each of us will leave here with different pieces of the memory puzzle of tonight’s musicalcelebration — one that will never be fully reassembled once we’ve all dispersed. But aftertonight, all the different memories will live on — and sharing them with each other, as well aswith those who aren’t here, will help keep them alive forever.

Isn’t so much of life all too fleeting? Thankfully music has an extraordinary power to staywith us.

Since I won’t have the opportunity to enjoy this concert from the audience, I am already alittle envious of you. But getting to produce and host this evening’s gala and to introduce onstage so many of my friends to an audience full of so many other friends — and family as well(Happy Mother’s Day, Mom!) — is one of the great honors of my life.

Thank you for coming.Enjoy the show!

Producer’s Note

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Part One

VARÈSE SARABANDE 35TH ANNIVERSARY OVERTURE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arranged by Steven Allen Fox and Victor Pesavento

Steven Allen Fox, conductor

DRIVING MISS DAISY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hans ZimmerSteven Allen Fox, conductor Hans Zimmer, piano • Mike Einziger, guitar

Ann Marie Calhoun, violin

THAT HAMILTON WOMAN Love Theme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Miklós RózsaSteven Allen Fox, conductor Paul Henning, violin

DOLPHIN TALE Suite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mark IshamSteven Allen Fox, conductor

A LITTLE ROMANCE Main Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Georges DelerueSteven Allen Fox, conductor Sara Andon, flute

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON Suite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John PowellJohn Powell, guest conductor

ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM Overture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brian TylerBrian Tyler, guest conductor

RUDY The Final Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jerry GoldsmithCliff Eidelman, guest conductor The GSPO Chorale

Part Two

VARÈSE SARABANDE 35TH ANNIVERSARY ENTR’ACTE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arranged by Christopher Lennertz

Christopher Lennertz, guest conductor The GSPO Chorale

IRON WILL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joel McNeelyJoel McNeely, guest conductor

SPARTACUS Love Theme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alex North, Arranged by Lee HoldridgeDiego Navarro, guest conductor Sara Andon, flute

PEE WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE Finale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Danny ElfmanSteven Allen Fox, conductor

THE ANT BULLY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Debney, Lyric by Lisbeth ScottJohn Debney, guest conductor The GSPO Chorale • Sara Andon, penny whistle

SHREK Suite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Harry Gregson-Williams and John PowellArranged by Victor Pesavento

Steven Allen Fox, conductor The GSPO Chorale

STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS Suite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael GiacchinoMichael Giacchino, guest conductor The GSPO Chorale

35 Years of Film Music History

There will be a fifteen-minute intermission

Thirty-five years is a long time by any estimation. It’s a demanding, rewarding andtransforming period of time and these last thirty-five years have certainly seen VarèseSarabande Records through a significant metamorphosis. Varèse Sarabande [Va-rez´ Sar´-

-band´] was founded in the spring of 1978 as a classical label with a mandate to rescuearchival recordings of some of the more obscure works by both the great masters as well asmany lesser-known composers. Sibelius’ Origin Of Fire and Dvorák’s Eighth Symphony arefound alongside composer-conducted albums by Enesco, Harris, Copland, and LeonardBernstein. Also from this earliest period came the first flirtation with composers who werebest known for their film composition. Albums featuring concert works by Erich WolfgangKorngold, Miklós Rózsa and Franz Waxman were the first to foreshadow what was to come.Later, there was a series of state-of-the-art recordings produced incorporating the latestmethods from the developing world of digital technology. Dvorák’s New World, Saint-Saens’Organ Symphony, Beethoven’s Seventh, Tchaikovsky’s Sixth plus works by DeFalla, Rodrigoand Gould made up Varèse’s release schedule during this time. Concurrent with all of this,a few film soundtracks found their way into the catalog. Victor Young’s The Quiet Man, Rózsa’sA Time To Love And A Time To Die and Alex North’s Four Girls In Town were among the scoresthat initiated an exploration of the world of film music. As sales of the soundtracks overtookthe classical releases, the tide began to turn and soon Varèse Sarabande became the firstrecord label to be devoted exclusively to film music. Greater ambitions soon led to a seriesof new recordings produced by the great George Korngold and conducted by the legendarylikes of Miklós Rózsa and Elmer Bernstein.

The rest, as they say, is history. For over three decades, Varèse Sarabande Records hasbeen home to more of film music’s greatest composers than any other label. Now with acatalog of over 1500 albums, which grows by 60 to 70 titles each year, Varèse Sarabanderemains the most prolific soundtrack label in the world. Over the years, our extended familyhas grown to include an international group of film music's very best composers — all of them.But with nearly 100 releases, no composer has appeared more frequently on the label thanour patron saint, Jerry Goldsmith, whose importance to Varèse Sarabande and, indeed, toall of film music is immeasurable.

It has been both a thrill and an honor to have had the opportunity to work with so many ofthe greatest composers of our time on preserving their music and making it available to beenjoyed by fans around the world. In doing this, we have also enjoyed performances by manyof the world’s finest musicians and orchestras. There is no question that motion picturesafford the music featured in them the opportunity of reaching an audience more vast thanwhat has been available to composers at any other time throughout history. It is importantthat the best of this music be allowed to lead a life apart from the film for which it wascomposed. In fact, many wonderful film scores became classics almost solely due to theimpression they made on album. Without soundtrack releases, some of the greatest scoresever written would remain unknown and hidden away in the vast film studio vaults.

Whether in film or on album, it is encouraging to realize that it is never too late to makediscoveries. A person could devote their entire life to exploring the world of classical musicand, if they lived to be a thousand, would not exhaust the infinite riches it has to offer. Filmmusic, having attracted the great musical minds of the world for nearly one hundred yearsnow, could also (and easily) fill a few lifetimes with perpetual discovery and revelation.

As we celebrate our 35th anniversary, it is this notion and spirit of discovering new,wonderful and moving music that keeps us doing what we do and, it is our hope, will keepyou listening.

— Robert Townson

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Hans ZimmerOne of the true giants in film music today, Hans Zimmerbegan his American film career with a pair of consecutive BestPicture Oscar winners … Rain Man (1988) and Driving MissDaisy (1989). Daisy was also the score which began Hans’relationship with Varèse Sarabande Records, that has goneon to include such scores as Green Card, Pacific Heights,Drop Zone, Tears Of The Sun, Frost/Nixon, The Holiday andKung Fu Panda 2. Zimmer has also forged a powerful set ofdirector relationships with Ron Howard, Ridley Scott andChristopher Nolan, among others, as well as producer JerryBruckheimer. Zimmer’s string of innovative blockbusterscores includes The Lion King, Thelma & Louise, Gladiator,The Dark Knight, Sherlock Holmes and Inception.

Cliff EidelmanWe’ve been working with Cliff Eidelman from the verybeginning and his spectacularly powerful score for Triumph OfThe Spirit in 1989. As the years went by we were on board fora wonderful exciting series of new works — from ChristopherColumbus: The Discovery to Untamed Heart, from Now AndThen to Free Willy 3, from One True Thing to The SisterhoodOf The Traveling Pants. Our latest with Cliff was the wonderfulwhale adventure Big Miracle. Cliff travelled to Seattle torecord his own score for Star Trek VI: The UndiscoveredCountry and other pieces for our album The Ultimate StarTrek. Working with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Cliffconducted our albums Romeo & Juliet and also The AlienTrilogy, which, in recent years has turned into a live concertevent now known as Alien: A Biomechanical Symphony.

Brian TylerBrian Tyler debuted on Varèse Sarabande in 2003 with a trioof scores all released on the same day! Children Of Dune,Darkness Fa l l s and The Hunted began a ser ies ofcollaborations that continues to this day. A partial list ofBrian’s extensive Varèse discography includes Timeline, TheFinal Cut, Constantine, Annapolis, Partition, Eagle Eye, AliensVs. Predator: Requiem, Dragonball: Evolution, Battle LosAngeles, Final Destination 4 & 5, and Brake. Brian’s series ofthree scores, including The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift,Fast & Furious and Fast Five helped propel the franchise toeven greater heights. Brian also contributed to our AlexNorth Spartacus tribute in 2010 and recently completed hisscore for Iron Man 3.

John PowellJohn Powell has become the virtual king of animation inrecent years, but we’ve been working with him since longbefore that. John’s Varèse relationship began with awonderful score for the little-known film Just Visiting butimmediately launched into the stratosphere after that withthe first Shrek. John was unstoppable after this, with a stringof both live actions films (The Bourne Identity, Two WeeksNotice, The Italian Job, Paycheck, X-Men: The Last Stand,Hancock, The Bourne Supremacy, United 93) and a growingnumber of animated films (Robots, Horton Hears A Who!, IceAge 2, 3 and 4, Rio and The Lorax). Powell’s acclaimed scorefor How To Train Your Dragon earned him his first AcademyAward nomination. We are so proud to have released all ofthese scores on Varèse Sarabande.

Mark IshamMark Isham came to film music as a jazz trumpeter andcomposer. His first early film score to appear on Varèse wasthe 1991 Jodie Foster film Little Man Tate. We’ve been workingtogether ever since on a long string of varied scores for CoolWorld, The Public Eye, Of Mice and Men, Mrs. Parker And TheVicious Circle, Timecop, The Net, Blade, Life As A House, Don’tSay A Word, Racing Stripes, Running Scared, Lions for Lambs,The Mist, The Crazies and Dolphin Tale, among many others.Mark also contributed a stunning arrangement of Alex North’sSpartacus Love Theme for our deluxe Spartacus boxed set,celebrating North’s 100th birthday in 2010.

Ann Marie CalhounInternationally acclaimed violinist Ann Marie Calhoun iscurrently playing violin in the band SuperHeavy, with DaveStewart, Mick Jagger, Damian Marley, AR Rahman, and JossStone. Her extensive experience as a rock violinist alsoincludes tours as a featured soloist with the legendary RingoStarr, Yanni, Dave Stewart (Eurythmics), Jethro Tull, and SteveVai. Her music collaborations also include The DaveMatthews Band, Hans Zimmer, Glen Ballard, Incubus andAretha Franklin.

She was a featured soloist on Hans Zimmer's Sherlock Holmesscore and we are thrilled to have her join us for our specialanniversary!

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Danny ElfmanDanny Elfman’s f i lm music found a home on VarèseSarabande right from the very beginning! It all started duringthe Oingo Boingo days with Forbidden Zone in 1982. Andthen came Danny’s first real score and first film with TimBurton, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure in 1985. The rest, as theysay, is history. Danny’s set of Varèse releases includes suchan eclectic group of scores as Back To School, Wisdom, ToDie For, Dolores Claiborne, Standard Operating Procedure,Hellboy 2, The Wolfman and Real Steel.

Elfman’s Tim Burton relationship has grown into one of thegreat director/composer collaborations of all time with suchscores as Batman, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, CorpseBride, Alice In Wonderland and Dark Shadows.

Michael GiacchinoIt was Michael Giacchino’s music for a series of successfulvideo games that brought him to the attention of director J.J.Abrams, who sought him out and offered him the opportunityof scoring his new TV series Alias. This is also the show thatbrought Michael to Varèse Sarabande for the first time. 2004saw Giacchino add the new television series Lost to hisworkload and also skyrocket to the next stage of things,scoring his first feature film (The Incredibles) for Pixar! Scoresfor The Family Stone, Mission: Impossible III, Ratatouille,Speed Racer, Star Trek , Let Me In , Super 8, Mission :Impossible: Ghost Protocol and an Oscar® for Up all followedover the years since. All of these film and televisionsoundtracks (except for the Pixar movies) are available onVarèse Sarabande. Michael’s latest score, and our newestalbum, is for this summer’s blockbuster Star Trek IntoDarkness.

John DebneyJohn Debney is another of our oldest friends here at VarèseSarabande. We started working with John during his TV days.His first Varèse release was SeaQuest DSV in 1993. Wefollowed him as the feature films began pouring in. SuddenDeath, Paulie, End Of Days, Cats & Dogs, Dragonfly, TheScorpion King, Bruce Almighty, Elf, The Whole Ten Yards,Duma, Sin City, Zathura, The Ant Bully, Evan Almighty andDream House are just a few. John was also part of our teamof conductors that included Jerry Goldsmith, ElmerBernstein, Joel McNeely and Cliff Eidelman, sharing varioustrips to Glasgow to record classic film music with the RoyalScottish National Orchestra. John’s albums includedHerrmann’s The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad, Williams’ Superman:The Movie and Barry’s Somewhere In Time.

Diego NavarroDiego Navarro is one of the most exciting new composers tocome from Spain. Navarro is also the founder and directorof the film music festival in Tenerife called Fimucité. Diegohas conducted a series of concerts each summer in theCanary Islands that pay tribute to composers like JerryGoldsmith, John Williams, Bernard Herrmann, Alex Northand John Barry. The Fimucité festival has also hosted suchvisiting guest composers as Don Davis, Mychael Danna,Patrick Doyle, Christopher Young, Trevor Rabin, JohnOttman, Joel McNeely, Sean Callery, Ramin Djawadi andmany others. In July 2012 Navarro conducted the officialUniversal Pictures 100th Anniversary concert with theTenerife Symphony. Navarro’s own music for Oscar: TheColor Of Destiny and Mimesis: Night Of The Living Deadhave been released on Varèse Sarabande, as well as acontinuing series of concert CDs and DVDs from Fimucité.

Joel MCNeelyJoel McNeely’s music for the early ’90s television series TheYoung Indiana Jones Chronicles first brought him to VarèseSarabande and we were excited to stand by him as his featurecareer unfolded with films like Iron Will, Terminal Velocity andSoldier. Joel also became a key member of the VarèseSarabande team of conductors and would lead a series ofnew recordings of classic film scores for us. McNeely becameparticularly identified with the music of Bernard Herrmannduring this time after conducting acclaimed albums of Vertigo,Psycho, Fahrenheit 451, Citizen Kane and the Grammy-nominated The Day The Earth Stood Still. Joel’s music for theVarèse/Lucasfilm album project Star Wars: Shadows Of TheEmpire became an enormous success. Most recently Joel hasbeen composing for Disney’s Tinker Bell franchise and teamedup with Seth MacFarlane for the Grammy-nominated albumMusic Is Better Than Words.

Christopher LennertzChristopher Lennertz had his first pair of scores released onVarèse (Marmaduke and Cats & Dogs: The Revenge Of KittyGalore) in 2010, just prior to the Úbeda film music festival thatyear. This was followed by the tremendous Easter hit, Hop.And we can’t wait for the next! Christopher’s role in ourconcert tonight is a special one. He won't be performing hisown music, but will instead be paying tribute to a group ofcomposer friends, colleagues and heroes of his. And he’ll bedoing that in epic fashion, conducting the premiere of theVarèse Sarabande 35th Anniversary Entr’acte! If we weregoing to open our first half with an overture, how could we notopen our second half with an Entr’acte?

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Jerry Goldsmith (1929 – 2004)Jerry Goldsmith was one of the most prolific composersof modern times. But it wasn’t the amount of musicGoldsmith wrote that distinguished him; it was the amountof extraordinary music. He held himself to an exactingstandard his whole life. Even Jerry’s earliest scores wereexceptionally sophisticated. Jerry Goldsmith was bornFebruary 10, 1929. His musical career began in radio and,listening to a score like 1489 Words makes abundantlyclear that Jerry Goldsmith was already Jerry Goldsmith,even this early on. His move to television came quicklywith scores for The Twilight Zone and Thriller — butconcurrently with this and him becoming the name intelevision, the world of feature films began calling. Inquick succession, Lonely Are The Brave, The Spiral Roadand Freud (all 1962) established Goldsmith as a master.Freud earned him his first of 18[!] Academy Awardnominations. The list of classics that followed includes The Blue Max, The Sand Pebbles, Planet OfThe Apes, Patton, Chinatown, The Omen, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Alien, Basic Instinct, TotalRecall, Rudy, L.A Confidential and The Mummy. All of these scores are represented on VarèseSarabande. Goldsmith also conducted a series of important Alex North scores in both London andGlasgow for Varèse. This series included Alex North’s 2001, A Streetcar Named Desire and Who’sAfraid Of Virginia Woolf?, among others. It is impossible to quantify Jerry Goldsmith’s importanceto film music. He impacted everything. He reshaped the entire industry, inspiring many composersto follow him into the art of film music and aspire to the heights he reached. He inspired a certainVarèse Sarabande record producer to take up a career in soundtrack production. There wouldprobably be no Varèse Sarabande at all if it wasn’t for Jerry Goldsmith. We lost Jerry in the summerof 2004, but will remember him always.

Alex North (1910 – 1991)Alex North was a wonder. As a composer he led a wildlydiverse career and had a profound effect on every genreof music he touched. It was at an Alex North ballet whereAaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein first met eachother. He wrote Revue For Clarinet for Benny Goodman.On Broadway he scored the ground-breaking Death Of ASalesman. His very first film score was A Streetcar NamedDesire in 1950. It was a revolutionary work and instantlychanged the course of film music. A few years later, hisUnchained Melody became a timeless standard of theAmerican songbook. As featured in the film Ghost (1990),North’s classic love song gave us our most successfulalbum ever. And in 1960, North composed arguably thegreatest film score of all time for Spartacus. His Emmy®Award was for the sprawling Rich Man, Poor Man. To allthat, we add Viva Zapata!, The Rose Tattoo, The Long Hot Summer, Cleopatra, The Agony And TheEcstasy, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? and The Misfits. We are so proud to have released all ofthese scores. Masterpieces all. Alex North’s Spartacus Love Theme has been called one of the mostbeautiful love themes of all time. Our commemorative Spartacus boxed set presented a collectionof 22 variations on the remarkable melody, interpreted by a group of master composers and musicians,spread all over the world and recorded over the last 50 years. This year, composer Lee Holdridgedelivered a masterful Fantasy On The Love Theme For Spartacus, especially for our flute soloist, SaraAndon. We lost Alex North in 1991, though his extraordinary music is certain to endure for all eternity.

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Miklós Rózsa (1907 – 1995)Could there ever have been a Golden Age of film musicwithout Miklós Rózsa? Rózsa was one of the principalarchitects of the sound we hear when we think of classicfilm music. His music conveys a special majesty that is soluminous, so glorious, so unabashedly cinematic that,without him, the era could never have been quite sogolden. He was born in Budapest in 1907. Rózsa scoredhis first films while living in London, but soared inpopularity after his 1940 move to Los Angeles and scorefor The Thief Of Bagdad. He won Academy Awards forhis scores for Spellbound (1945), A Double Life (1947) andBen Hur (1959). It is such an honor to have the roots ofthis label tied so closely with this great legend. A huge listof Rózsa masterworks is represented on VarèseSarabande in recordings of themes, suites and full albums.

El Cid, Eye Of The Needle, Julius Caesar, The Lost Weekend, Lust For Life, Quo Vadis, SpellboundConcerto and The Thief Of Bagdad are just a few. The piece we will hear tonight is one of his mostexquisite. The Love Theme from That Hamilton Woman has been recorded twice for VarèseSarabande — first by Morton Gould and the London Symphony Orchestra and, in a recording to honorour friend after his passing in 1995, with Joel McNeely and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.Tonight we pay tribute to Dr. Rózsa again in a performance of this favorite, featuring GSPOconcertmaster Paul Henning on violin.

Georges Delerue (1925 – 1992)Georges Delerue was responsible for some of the mostbeautiful film music ever written. Georges’ music is simplyinfectious, and he possessed a truly extraordinary gift —he could write music that made you happy. He couldcapture joy in music like no one else and he shared thatwith the world. Georges Delerue was born in Roubaix,France in 1925. His exceptional and prolific work duringthe 1960s saw him become the premiere musical voice ofsuch French new wave cinema directors as FrançoisTruffaut, Alain Renais and Jean-Luc Godard. Delerue hadbecome a cinematic legend long before he moved to LosAngeles in 1985 but he then added such films as Agnes OfGod, Salvador, Crimes Of The Heart, Platoon, Beaches,Steel Magnolias, Joe Vs. The Volcano and Black Robe tohis already enormous filmography. Georges was anincredibly prolific composer. New Delerue releases were a regular occurrence at Varèse Sarabande.We loved him. Everyone did. In one of the most important recordings this label has ever undertaken,we recorded three volumes of Delerue music called The London Sessions, just three years before welost Georges so suddenly in 1992. Georges Delerue won the 1979 Academy Award for A LittleRomance. The wickedly difficult Main Title music was given its world premiere by flutist Sara Andonwith the Macau Orchestra in February of 2013. Tonight Ms. Andon performs the American premiereof this important, but joyously fun Delerue classic.

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Producer

As the most prolific producer of film music in the world, Robert Townsonhas been averaging one new album release a week for over twenty-fiveyears now. His work focuses not only on the most successful blockbustersof today but has, from the very beginning, made a priority of restoring andreleasing the priceless musical treasures of Hollywood’s glorious history.In July of 2010, Townson celebrated the release of his 1000th album.

Townson’s first album release was Jerry Goldsmith’s The Final Conflictin 1986. Another early project was the Grammy®-nominated album Ginger-Ale Afternoon, composed by Blues legend Willie Dixon. Quickly followingthis, Townson produced the soundtracks for the Academy Award®-winningDriving Miss Daisy (Hans Zimmer) and My Left Foot (Elmer Bernstein).1990 saw Townson produce CDs for seven of the summer’s top elevenfilms including the platinum-selling Ghost, plus Back To The Future PartIII, Die Hard 2: Die Harder, Robocop 2, Jerry Goldsmith’s scores for bothTotal Recall and Gremlins 2, and John Williams’ Presumed Innocent.

The string of successes has continued, uninterrupted, ever since: TheAbyss, Predator (1 and 2), Die Hard (1, 2 and 4), Big, Dead Poet’s Society,

The Grifters, Green Card, City Slickers, Father Of The Bride, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Basic Instinct, ThePlayer, Unforgiven, The Secret Garden, The Crow, A Little Princess, Babe, Air Force One, L.A. Confidential,Blade, Pleasantville, Scream (1, 2, 3 and 4), You’ve Got Mail, The Matrix, The Iron Giant, The Sixth Sense, GoneIn 60 Seconds, Cast Away, Rush Hour (2 and 3), Shrek (1, 2, 3 and 4), Far From Heaven, Unfaithful, The BourneIdentity (and Supremacy and Legacy), Ice Age (1, 2, 3 and 4), Bruce (and Evan) Almighty, Elf, Sin City, The ItalianJob, Meet The Fockers (and Little Fockers), M:i:III (and Ghost Protocol), X-Men: The Last Stand, Fast & Furious(3, 4 and 5), Night At The Museum (and Smithsonian), Frost/Nixon, Grey Gardens, Rise Of The Planet Of TheApes, Super 8, The Help, Albert Nobbs, Rio, The Ides Of March, Kung Fu Panda 2, The Lorax, the Grammy®-nominated albums for Million Dollar Baby, Blood Diamond and Star Trek along with the Oscar®-nominatedscores from House Of Sand And Fog, The Good German, Michael Clayton and How To Train Your Dragon. Nextup: Star Trek Into Darkness. Townson has produced soundtracks for the television series Lost, Alias, 24, TrueBlood, Spartacus, Fringe and The Tudors, plus such epic television productions as John Adams, The Thorn Birds,North And South, Mildred Pierce, House Of Cards and Game Of Thrones.

In addition to his always-full schedule of new film soundtracks, Townson has, over this same period, restoredand released CDs of the soundtracks from such film and film music classics as Taxi Driver, Chinatown, LawrenceOf Arabia, The Great Escape, Touch Of Evil, Casino Royale, The Omen, Cleopatra and Ghostbusters.

Townson has also been steadily producing the most comprehensive series of new recordings of classic filmscores ever undertaken — traveling to Glasgow and London over the years with the likes of Jerry Goldsmith,Elmer Bernstein, Joel McNeely, John Debney and Cliff Eidelman. This series included such scores as AlexNorth’s legendary unused score from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, plus A Streetcar Named Desire,Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, Patton, The Sand Pebbles, To Kill A Mockingbird, Out Of Africa, Born Free,Somewhere In Time, Body Heat, Sunset Boulevard, The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape. The seriesof Bernard Herrmann recordings included Citizen Kane, Psycho, North By Northwest, Vertigo, Fahrenheit 451,The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad, and The Day The Earth Stood Still, which was nominated for a 2003 Grammy® award.

Townson began producing a series of film music concerts during his days with the Royal Scottish NationalOrchestra. Jerry Goldsmith’s 70th birthday as well as Elmer Bernstein’s 75th, and an ongoing series of programsconducted by Joel McNeely, set the stage for the international events that are occurring so frequently today.

These have included the International Film Music Conference in Úbeda, Spain, the Fimucité Festival onTenerife in the Canary Islands, the World Soundtrack Awards in Ghent, Belgium, and the Film Music Festival inKrakow, Poland. In August of 2011, Townson produced the official Abbey Road Studios 80th Anniversary Concertin London, which featured Joel McNeely and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Townson’s summer 2012schedule included the official Universal Pictures 100th Anniversary Concert, with the Tenerife Symphony, andalso a collaboration with the Royal Air Force Band for the Edinburgh Military Tattoo. In February 2012, Townsonjourneyed to Macau, China to produce and host the historic first-ever film music concert in this region.

In July 2010, Robert unveiled his 1,000th album — a deluxe box set presentation of Alex North’s masterpiece,Spartacus. With nearly 1,200 albums to his credit, Robert Townson remains the most prolific producer ofsoundtrack albums in the world.

Flutist Sara Andon is an international soloist and recordingartist known for her ravishing tone and deeply engagingmusical interpretations. A versatile performer in many musicgenres including solo, chamber, symphonic, opera, ballet,new music, jazz and Broadway, she has performed all overthe world in major concert venues, TV and radio broadcasts,as well as on many motion picture soundtracks.

Ms. Andon has performed with several Americanorchestras including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, PasadenaSymphony, Tulsa Opera, New West Symphony, Los AngelesMaster Chorale, California Philharmonic, Pasadena Pops,New Haven Symphony, Orchestra New England, SanFrancisco Western Opera Theater, Miami City Ballet TouringOrchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. She has worked with suchworld-renowned conductors as Kurt Masure, David Zinman, John Mauceri, Jorge Mester, Jeffrey Kahane andEsa-Pekka Salonen.

Ms. Andon has performed with the orchestras for many Broadway musicals including Les Misérables, Disney’sBeauty And The Beast and the critically acclaimed hit Broadway show Wicked (L.A. Company).

Her countless film score recordings have included Marco Beltrami’s Wolverine (coming out soon) as well asDie Hard 5: A Good Day To Die Hard, Trouble With The Curve, The Thing; Rolfe Kent’s Mr. Popper’s Penguins,Lalo Schifrin’s Rush Hour 3, James Newton Howard’s The Bourne Legacy, Aaron Zigman’s Sex In The City II,Daft Punk’s Tron and the acclaimed documentary No Place On Earth. Her recent recording work for videogames includes the Grammy-nominated blockbuster game Journey, along with World Of Warcraft, Star CraftII, WildStar, BioShock-Infinite and League Of Legends. She also records for many Disney projects including thenew show Mickey's Magical Map opening at Disneyland on May 25, 2013. Andon also took part in composerChristopher Lennertz’s fund-raising recording and concert Symphony of Hope: The Haiti Project.

As a soloist and chamber musician, Ms. Andon has performed throughout the United States, Italy, France,England, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Greece and China including performances at Carnegie Hall, LincolnCenter’s Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall (NYC), St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, CBS Sunday Morning, UniversalAmphitheater, Hollywood Bowl and Walt Disney Hall in L.A.

On February 23, 2013 Ms. Andon performed four pieces with the Macau Orchestra for the concert HollywoodLove Stories — Great Romantic Film Music at the Venetian Macau Resort and also joined Varèse Sarabande'sseries of concerts celebrating the label's 35th anniversary. Andon will perform a selection of film music classicswritten or arranged for solo flute, including Alex North's Spartacus Love Theme, arranged just for her by LeeHoldridge. Tonight's concert with the Golden State Pops Orchestra will be followed by a trip to Tenerife inJuly for performances with both the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra and also the Big Band de Canarias (for atribute to composer Elmer Bernstein), as part of the Fimucité festival.

She has been a featured soloist at numerous music festivals including the Ojai Music Festival (CA), NorfolkChamber Music Festival (CT), Grand Teton Music Festival (WY), Music at Penn’s Woods (PA), Sunriver MusicFestival (OR), the London Baroque Music Festival & the Los Angeles Bach Festival.

Other solo performances include “Sundays Live at Six” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, mostrecently with Sarah Jackson, flutist and piccoloist with the L.A. Philharmonic and Barry Gold, cellist with theL.A. Philharmonic, on an all-Haydn program, and on the “Jacaranda — Music At The Edge Series” in Santa Monica.

Ms. Andon was invited to perform the Double Flute Concerto by Steven Stucky (Pulitzer-Prize winningcomposer and New Music Consultant-L.A. Philharmonic) with world-renowned flutist Ransom Wilson at ZipperHall in downtown Los Angeles.

Ms. Andon received her post-graduate Artist Diploma from Yale University studying with Ransom Wilson andher Masters of Music in Flute Performance at USC studying with Janet Ferguson, former principal flutist of theLos Angeles Philharmonic.

She is Principal/Solo Flute of the Redlands Symphony and is the Artist Teacher of Flute at the University ofRedlands School of Music and Idyllwild Arts Academy as well as the Woodwind Coordinator for the Los AngelesPhilharmonic Young Composers Fellowship Program, Mentors: Steven Stucky, John Adams, James Matheson,and A.J. McCaffrey.

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Steven Allen FoxARTISTIC DIRECTOR/CONDUCTOR/COMPOSER

Maestro Steven Allen Fox is an innovative conductor andconcert creator who has a passion for dramatic music;particularly film, television, video game, Broadway andRomantic era works.

A piano and trombone student from an early age, Steven’sa-ha moment came at the age of 13 while watching StevenSpielberg’s Hook; he would forevermore hold JohnWilliams’ brilliant score to this film responsible for drawinghim down the career path of starving artist and musician.Steven brought this newfound passion to his firstcomposition, Vertigo for solo piano, as well as everyperforming ensemble he could find, including the CavalierDrum and Bugle Corps. He went on to earn a BachelorsDegree in Music Theory and Composition from Illinois State University (ISU) and a GraduateCertificate in Film and Television Scoring from the University of Southern California (USC).

In 1999, Steven and his wife Leslie moved to Los Angeles where he keeps a busy schedule helpingraise three daughters and composing music to feature-length films, CDs, animated shorts and concertworks. In addition to his role as Artistic Director and Conductor of the Golden State Pops Orchestra(GSPO), Steven is Music Director of the El Segundo Concert Band and a freelance conductor. Stevenfounded the GSPO in 2002 to be a year-round pops orchestra that brings the dramatic music heloves to the concert stage. GSPO has given Steven the opportunity to work with some of the mostinfluential composers, artists and production companies in the industry and to conduct on such world-renowned stages as Nokia Theatre, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Orange County Performing ArtsCenter, Paramount Studios and Skywalker Sound. Steven has also been branded as a “premiereconductor,” as he has presented over 70 World or North American concert premieres in the lastseven seasons.

Looking to the future, Steven aims to increase the GSPO’s stature on the world stage, and also hopesto expand his guest conducting career on an international scale. He continues to compose for filmsand video games with increasing recognition, and creates stage works that bring together differentart forms in a collaborative format. Steven hopes that his unique approach to programming concertsin a dramatic manner will allow him to create an impact for millions of patrons in live concerts,recordings and broadcasts for many years to come.

In collaboration with GSPO Music Director Victor Pesavento, Steven has arranged the VarèseSarabande 35th Anniversary Overture, a world premiere he will conduct to open this evening’s gala.

With a driving mission to create, develop and present innovative and fresh orchestral concerts, theGolden State Pops Orchestra (GSPO) is quickly becoming nationally known as a pioneer in providingquality film music with a second life on the concert stage, in productions that absorb audiences frombeginning to end.

GSPO’s first notes were sounded in April of 2002 with the downbeat of the Star Wars Main Title.Beginning with this first production, GSPO’s audiences have grown exponentially from one seasonto the next. In 2011, GSPO was honored by the San Pedro Chamber of Commerce as the 2011 BusinessOf The Year, a coup for an arts organization. In addition, GSPO has been honored with theopportunity to premiere more than 100 works independent of the original films, often with thecomposer in attendance or participating as a guest conductor.

One of GSPO’s core values is the continuous advancement of our artistic capacity and productionvalues, while maintaining a focus on high-quality performance. Over the next 10 years, GSPO looksforward to building even more relationships with composers and entertainment industry professionals,expanding our season to over 10 productions a year, producing multiple recordings and bringing ourunique brand of entertainment to world-renowned venues throughout Southern California.

The Golden State Pops Orchestra’s collaboration with Robert Townson on their salute to VarèseSarabande’s 35th Anniversary began February 16th with a tribute to composer Alan Silvestri, and willcontinue throughout the year. Next up will be Music From The Star Wars Universe on June 15th.Townson will return as host on October 19 for Varèse Sarabande’s 35th Anniversary Halloween Gala.And coming for the holidays will be Varèse Sarabande’s 35th Anniversary Christmas Gala onDecember 21st. Come join us as the celebration continues …

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STEVEN ALLEN FOX conducts the GOLDEN STATE POPS ORCHESTRAGreat Composer Tribute: The Music Of Alan Silvestri

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Steven Allen Fox: Founder / Artistic DirectorInga Funck: Managing DirectorVictor Pesavento: Music DirectorEmily Reppun: Orchestra ManagerA. Phoenix Delgado: Resident Guest ConductorJason Livesay & Nolan Livesay: Assistant ConductorsPaul Henning: ConcertmasterNoel Salinda, Steve Salinda, Katherine Wittig, Naomi & Erland Wittig: Box Office / Ticketing ServicesJoseph Richard Negro: Photo / GraphicsBen Kanselbaum: Sound & Recording EngineerRichard Taylor: LightingEdie Rice: Reception CoordinatorHolly Choe: Artistic Director InternStephen Clark: GSPO Student Intern

GSPO Board of DirectorsA. Phoenix Delgado, PresidentErland Wittig, Vice President

Rene Diaz, TreasurerSteven Allen Fox, Secretary

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The occasion of Varèse Sarabande’s 35th Anniversary has grown into our biggest celebration yet!It seems only right. After all, we’ve never had so much history to celebrate before! The excitingevolution in how we are celebrating this year is the scale of everything … the stage we are on. Literally!For the first time in our history, our 35th anniversary is being celebrated musically … not just with thisnew CD set, but actually on stage, with live concerts! This is exactly how a record label thatrepresents so many remarkable composers should celebrate! All of this is happening due to asequence of events that began during my years producing recordings with the Royal Scottish NationalOrchestra. It was during this time in the mid- and late 1990s that my recording trips to Glasgow withJoel McNeely, Jerry Goldsmith and Elmer Bernstein began being supplemented with my first concertproductions. It was very exciting to work with such a remarkable orchestra in this way, presentingwonderful programs of music by my composer friends. As the years went on, a new era of film musicappreciation in the form of live concerts began to develop across Europe. The Ghent InternationalFilm Festival became the founding father of these modern events where film composers are treatedlike rock stars. Spain soon followed, and with a passion! – first a magical festival in Úbeda, whichbegan staging concerts in 2006, and then the glorious Fimucité event in Tenerife, which was in fullswing by 2007. Krakow, Poland was the next city to join the cause. Following that came HollywoodIn Vienna. It has been a great honor for me to become part of all of these festivals in a variety ofways, expanding my concert activities across Europe. Still more one night shows were presented inLondon, Lyon, Chicago and, of course, Los Angeles. All of this set the stage for an epic celebrationof Varèse Sarabande’s 2013 anniversary. The first concert of the year kicked off the centerpiece ofour whole celebration: a series of five-concerts spread over the entire year, with California’s GoldenState Pops Orchestra. First came February’s opening night of the GSPO season and our celebrationof the music of Alan Silvestri. The very next weekend, I found myself producing China’s first-everfilm music concert with the Macau Orchestra on the grand stage of the Venetian Macau’s theatre.Returning from this epic adventure landed me in the middle of the final preparations for the GSPO’sMay 11 Varèse 35th Anniversary All-Star Gala … and completing work on this very CD!

Compiling the Varèse Anniversary CDs every five years is one of my great joys. Working away onnew film music releases every day, as I do, and have been doing for over 25 of Varèse’s 35 years now,can push certain albums from memory once they are completed and I’ve moved on to my meet mynext deadline. It’s an overwhelming (but in the best way possible) amount of music that passes throughhere! The anniversary CDs give me the opportunity of revisiting the best film music from the pastfive years and the revelation every time is that there is a lot of outstanding film music being written… still! We’ve lost so many legends who were dear friends of mine in the years since I started doingthis, but there are so many new names from all around the world bringing their incredible artistry toHollywood. Compiling just the recent highlights for a set such as this leaves no doubt that film musicremains the most vital, exciting and inspiring display of musical excellence there is. My hope withthese releases is always that you too will be reminded of a favorite score you may not have listenedto for a while or, more importantly still … that everyone will discover at least one, and hopefully many,new favorites among the contents here. Fantastic scores from films that pass with little or no fanfarecan be easy to miss. Here’s another chance to make that most exciting kind of musical discoveryamong this wealth of film music riches.

Our 35th anniversary also marks something of a new beginning for Varèse Sarabande. Our mergerthis year with Cutting Edge Group may, to our fans, be a largely behind-the-scenes bit of Varèse newsthat began the year, but the benefit will show itself with increased activity on all fronts. Anamplification of all the things we have been doing — and an opportunity to add to those somewonderful things we haven’t! All in all, at a point where the challenges of the music world have forcedso many labels to close or constrict their business, the next stage in the evolution of Varèse SarabandeRecords is continued growth and ambitious expansion! With that agenda and with increased supportbehind all of our film music activities, the coming years look very exciting indeed!

With our 35th Anniversary and all of the related activities and albums, this year is a particularlythrilling time for me. The great thing about celebrating Varèse Sarabande is that, for us, the spotlightis always on the composers. It will always be that way. We will never forget the composers who madeus what we are. Jerry Goldsmith, Miklós Rózsa, Elmer Bernstein, Alex North, Georges Delerue, BasilPoledouris and so many others. You will hear their music on new albums and in concerts around theworld. And the new music we are so honored to be associated with — magical days in the recordingstudio with Michael Giacchino, Patrick Doyle, John Powell, Alexandre Desplat, Brian Tyler, and somany more — continues to fill us with an enthusiasm for great film music that is not only undiminishedfrom our earliest years ... it has never been greater!

— Robert Townson

DISC ONE1. DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX (John Powell) (2:37) 2. HOP (Christopher Lennertz) (3:06) 3. KUNG FU PANDA 2 (Hans Zimmer

and John Powell) (2:37) 4. DOLPHIN TALE (Mark Isham) (3:01) 5. BIG MIRACLE (Cliff Eidelman) (3:15) 6. NIM’S ISLAND (PatrickDoyle) (3:56) 7. RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (Alexandre Desplat) (2:06) 8. HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON(John Powell) (4:12) 9. RIO (John Powell) (2:42) 10. DR. SEUSS’ HORTON HEARS A WHO! (John Powell) (7:46)

11. ASTRO BOY (John Ottman) (4:32) 12. SPEED RACER (Michael Giacchino) (4:33) 13. REAL STEEL (Danny Elfman) (6:54)

14. THE A-TEAM (Alan Silvestri) (6:11) 15. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - GHOST PROTOCOL (Michael Giacchino) (2:42)

16. LARGO WINCH (Alexandre Desplat) (3:06) 17. FAST FIVE (Brian Tyler) (3:04) 18. KNIGHT AND DAY (John Powell) (4:54)

19. G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA (Alan Silvestri) (2:22) 20. STAR TREK (Michael Giacchino) (2:38)

DISC TWO1. AMELIA (Gabriel Yared) (4:59) 2. CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR (James Newton Howard) (5:54) 3. HACHI

(Jan A.P. Kaczmarek) (3:25) 4. THE HELP (Thomas Newman) (6:27) 5. THE BUCKET LIST (Marc Shaiman) (3:51) 6. LEAP YEAR(Randy Edelman) (2:54) 7. THE TUDORS - SEASON 3 (Trevor Morris) (1:34) 8. BEL AMI (Rachel Portman) (1:55)

9. PARADE’S END (Dirk Brossé) (2:19) 10. YOUR HIGHNESS (Steve Jablonsky) (4:30) 11. ALBERT NOBBS (Brian Byrne) (5:16)

12. GREY GARDENS (Rachel Portman) (2:45) 13. ANOTHER YEAR (Gary Yershon) (3:02) 14. LA FILLE DU PUISATIER(Alexandre Desplat) (3:27) 15. THE LAST STATION (Sergey Yevtushenko) (1:49) 16. SPARTACUS LOVE THEME

(Alex North) (2:55) 17. THE VISITOR (Jan A.P. Kaczmarek) (5:02) 18. LA LIGNE DROITE (Patrick Doyle) (3:37)

19. STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE (Danny Elfman) (5:57) 20. COLUMBUS CIRCLE (Brian Tyler) (3:14)

21. FLASH OF GENIUS (Aaron Zigman) (1:55) 22. MILDRED PIERCE (Carter Burwell) (1:41)

DISC THREE1. FOOL’S GOLD (George Fenton) (4:23) 2. SANCTUM (David Hirschfelder) (2:20) 3. THE FIRST GRADER

(Alex Heffes) (2:21) 4. THE STONING OF SORAYA M. (John Debney) (3:12) 5. BLACK GOLD (James Horner) (3:59)

6. IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY (Gabriel Yared) (4:00) 7. THERE BE DRAGONS: SECRETOS DE PASIÓN(Robert Folk) (2:54) 8.OSCAR: THE COLOR OF DESTINY (Diego Navarro) (6:17) 9. FOR GREATER GLORY

(James Horner) (4:08) 10. VALKYRIE (John Ottman) (4:20) 11. THE SUM OF ALL FEARS (Jerry Goldsmith) (3:32)

12. THE WOLFMAN (Danny Elfman) (4:17) 13. DREAM HOUSE (John Debney) (5:40) 14. LET ME IN (Michael Giacchino) (6:00)

15. I AM LEGEND (James Newton Howard) (4:26) 16. NEVER LET ME GO (Rachel Portman) (3:00)

17. IGOR (Patrick Doyle) (3:03) 18. TRUE BLOOD (Nathan Barr) (2:56) 19. JOHN CARPENTER’S THE WARD (Mark Kilian) (2:35) 20.

FRIGHT NIGHT (Ramin Djawadi) (4:11)

DISC FOUR1. THE GHOST WRITER (Alexandre Desplat) (1:41) 2. TOO BIG TO FAIL (Marcelo Zarvos) (4:30)

3. THE IDES OF MARCH (Alexandre Desplat) (2:04) 4. FROST / NIXON (Hans Zimmer) (4:27) 5. BRAKE (Brian Tyler) (3:18)

6. CAMELOT (Mychael and Jeff Danna) (1:35) 7. THE BORGIAS (Trevor Morris) (1:34) 8. GAME OF THRONES - SEASON 2(Ramin Djawadi) (1:46) 9. RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (Patrick Doyle) (5:18) 10. BATTLESHIP (Steve Jablonsky) (3:15) 11.

BABYLON A.D. (Atli Örvarsson) (5:34) 12. BATTLE: LOS ANGELES (Brian Tyler) (5:40) 13. COWBOYS & ALIENS(Harry Gregson-Williams) (3:07) 14. EAGLE EYE (Brian Tyler) (2:28) 15. CHARLIE ST. CLOUD (Rolfe Kent) (2:32)

16. A THOUSAND WORDS (John Debney) (4:43) 17. THE MIGHTY MACS (William Ross) (2:29)

18. TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE (Marco Beltrami) (4:30) 19. TOUCHBACK (William Ross) (5:18)

20. WILL (Nigel Clarke & Michael Csányi-Wills) (3:10) 21. SUPER 8 (Michael Giacchino) (5:16)

22. THE MUMMY 3: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR (Randy Edelman) (3:01)

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left: ELMER BERNSTEIN, ROBERT TOWNSONright: ROBERT TOWNSON, JERRY GOLDSMITH

left: RANDY EDELMAN, ROBERT TOWNSON, DAVE GRUSINright: LALO SCHIFRIN, ROBERT TOWNSON

left: BRIAN TYLER, ROBERT TOWNSON, PATRICK DOYLE, MARCO BELTRAMIright: ROBERT TOWNSON, ALEX NORTH

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