For me, there are two great things about film music.

For starters, it unlocks emotions that seemingly great acting, writing, cinematography and editing cannot do alone. E.T. is a beautifully told fantasy but would we feel quite so airborne when those bikes take flight if it wasn't for John...

This week, we're all feeling the thrill of seeing our national teams in action: mostly young people from all over the country whose extraordinary dedication to their craft gives us an uplifting sense of what we can all achieve if we put our mind to it. Each day we marvel...

Long before NASA gave us a glimpse of outer space, classical music led the way. In 1914, over 40 years before Sputnik was launched, composer Gustav Holst cast his imagination to the far side of the solar system, embarking on a piece of music entitled The Planets.

It's one...

Oh no. Not another blog about Prometheus. There's surely nothing left to be said.

Yet, of all the surprises (good and bad) to be found in Ridley Scott's sci-fi spectacular, I was most struck to discover an unlikely stowaway aboard the fated spaceship: 19th Century Polish composer Frédéric Chopin....