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Sound of Cinema: Composing for Hollywood

Journalist Jonathan Coffey is in Los Angeles to meet some of today's leading film composers to assess the business of writing for the movies.

Once upon a time Hollywood composers were classically schooled European maestros. Today many of the most successful ones are drawn from the world of pop and rock. In this documentary journalist Jonathan Coffey is in Los Angeles to meet some of the biggest names in the industry to assess the business of writing for the movies.

45 minutes

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  • Sun 22 Sep 2013 19:45

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