Writing

Below is a sampling of my feature article writing. As many of these require an online subscription to read them, they have been reprinted on my blog or in PDF form with permission from the publisher. If you would like to see more writing samples, just ask!

Film Score Monthly Online

• The Bastard Child of Puccini (10/09)
• The Hollywood Concerto (5/09)
• Red Composer-In-Chief: Hanns Eisler (4/09)
• War Is Hell: John Corigliano and the Battle Over Revolution (2/08)
• “Hail Satan!”: The Omen and Jerry Goldsmith’s Trilogy of Terror (12/07)
• Stalin the Powerful: Prokofiev, Eisenstein and Ivan the Terrible (8/07)
• Propaganda and Peasants: Aaron Copland’s Score to The North Star (2/07)
• The Music of A Streetcar Named Desire (5/06)
• Petroleum, Politics and Prizes: Inside Virgil Thomson’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning Score for Louisiana Story (4/06)
• “You Have Cheated Me”: Aaron Copland’s Compromised Score to The Heiress (5/05)

Liner Notes

Examples of CD liner notes are available only by purchasing the disc. Links have been provided for your convenience. (I do not receive a commission from sales.)

Film Score Monthly

Varese Sarabande Records

• Careful, He Might Hear You (Ray Cook)
• Ghostbusters (Elmer Bernstein)
• Promises, Promises (Burt Bacharach & Hal David)
• Seven Cities of Gold/The Rains of Ranchipur (Hugo Friedhofer)
• Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (Elmer Bernstein)

eHow.com

A variety of “how to” articles from “How to Have a Meaningful Volunteer Experience” to “How to Visit New York City (and Not Annoy the Locals).” Click on the eHow.com link to be taken to the article page.