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Dog Ears Music: The Leftovers II

The Everlasting Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 01.25.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Fleetwood Mac and Otis Spann, The Distillers, Lupe Fiasco, The Books, Elmer Bernstein, Pieces of Peace, Danielle Evin, Music, Amadou & Mariam, Wye Oak, Tom Waits, The Beatles, The Remains, mp3s, Bob Dylan & the Band, Magnum, Vincent Gallo, Phil Ramone, King Britt, Joni Mitchell, Stars, Chris Bell, Mason Jennings, Department of Eagles, The Forminx, Dog Ears, The Shootist, Tommy Johnson, Drive-by Truckers, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, City and Colour, Entertainment News
The Everlasting Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin

Today we review music by Tom Waits, Lupe Fiasco, Stars, Joni Mitchell and others.

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Dog Ears Music: Born in April Playlist

The Everlasting Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 06.08.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Debbie Reynolds, Billie Holiday, John Oates (With Daryl Hall), Muddy Waters, Serge Gainsbourg (With Brigitte Bardot), Mark Volman (the Turtles), Merle Haggard, Elmer Bernstein, Danielle Evin, Music, Glen Campbell, Emmylou Harris (With Mark Knopfler), Larry Ramos (the Association), mp3s, Jimmy Cliff, Miklós Rózsa, Ann-Margret (With Elvis Presley), Vincent Gallo, Phil Ramone, Peter Frampton, Little Brother Montgomery, Loretta Lynn, Dog Ears, Marvin Gaye, Hugh Masekela, Entertainment News
The Everlasting Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin

This week, we feature music by Serge Gainsbourg, Marvin Gaye, Billie Holiday, Ann-Margret and more.

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LA Jewish Symphony Presents "Cinema Judaica" at the Ford Theatre

Rodney Punt | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: MARK KASHPER, NOREEN GREEN, ARIELLA VACCARINO, ANDY FELDBAU, Stephen Schwartz, Elmer Bernstein, HANNAH DREW, DANNY PELFREY, RODNEY PUNT, YUVAL RON, ZINOVY GORO, John Williams, L. A. JEWISH SYMPHONY, Charles Fox, JAMIE PAPISH, Jerry Goldsmith, Arts News
Rodney Punt

The LA Jewish Symphony's second installment of "Cinema Judaica" for its insider audience was so focused on its subject it had the air of parochial ritual. It was certainly helpful if you knew Yiddish.

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Dog Days of Summer Playlist: Volume 2

The Everlasting Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Eric Clapton, Ian Hunter, Declan O'Rourke, Lupe Fiasco & Jill Scott, The B-52's, Prince, Squeeze, Salt-N-Pepa, Iron & Wine, Benji Hughes, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Smashing Pumpkins, Music, Ali Farka Touré & Ry Cooder, N.W.A, Fleet Foxes, Julie Doiron, Fleetwood Mac, Empire of the Sun, David Bowie, A Tribe Called Quest, Billy Idol, Muse, Martha Wainwright, Mary J. Blige, Elmer Bernstein, Danielle Evin, Bob Dylan, Big Mama Thornton, Lykke Li, Andrew Bird, Golden Earring, mp3s, Diana Ross, Emmylou Harris, The Ventures, Artie Shaw, Skip James, Gillian Welch, Richard Swift, Frank Sinatra & Tommy Dorsey, Phil Ramone, Nina Simone, Pink Floyd, Alice Coltrane, Diana Krall, Jeff Buckley, Seals & Crofts, Pixies, James Taylor, Dog Ears, The Wallflowers, Entertainment News
The Everlasting Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin

This week's column features music by the B-52's, The Smashing Pumpkins, Nina Simone, Jeff Buckley, The Wallflowers and Pink Floyd.

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AFI Pretends Again to Honor Hollywood

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Haskell Wexler, Edith Head, Academy Awards, George Lucas, Afi, Stephen Spielberg, Oscars, Elmer Bernstein, Ernest Lehman, Neil Simon, Hal. B Wallis, American Film Institute, Entertainment News
Robert J. Elisberg

If the AFI is going to honor lifetime achievement in film, they should do so. For starters, how about Neil Simon? He's one of the few screenwriters whose name the public actually recognizes.

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The Best Original Movie Scores By Farr

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Dr. Zhivago, Goldfinger, The Bad and the Ugly, Henry Mancini, Pulp Fiction, Movie, Moviemaking, Breakfast at Tiffany's, John Barry, A Man and a Woman, Miklos Rozsa, Maurice Jarre, Bernard Herrmann, Son of a Preacher Man, David Raksin, The Good, Burt Bacharach, Movie Music, Nino Rota, Michel Legrand, Lawrence of Arabia, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Stuck in the Middle With You, The Magnificent Seven, Best Original Score, The Pink Panther, Elmer Bernstein, Gone With the Wind, The Thomas Crown Affair, Francis Lai, Ennio Morricone, Bob Dylan, Film Scores, Reservoir Dogs, American Graffiti, Max Steiner, Eric Wolfgang Korngold, James Bond, The Godfather, Movie Soundtracks, Dusty Springfield, Quentin Tarantino, The Godfather Part 2, Laura, Entertainment News
John Farr

Surveying the historical span of filmmaking, the use of original music appears more prevalent from the dawn of sound through the 1970s -- or perhaps it's just that the scores themselves were more memorable over this period.

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