Lights, Camera, Music!

The concert halls are filling up with cinephiles. In New York, the Philharmonic performed the score to Stanley Kubrick's 2001. Detroit presented concerts devoted to the film music of John Williams. And in Lyon, as part of the Festival Lumière, we played a recent soundtrack for the 1929 Hitchcock thriller, Blackmail, complete with the restored version of the film. Why this explosion of music and the movies? It would seem that after decades of derision, film scores are finally beginning to take t...