Olympics

It isn’t just my imagination: Olympic figure skaters are relying less and less on film scores these days. A decade ago, you couldn’t sit through a competition without hearing a lot of stuff by Jerry Goldsmith, Thomas Newman, James Horner, Alan Menken, and especially Randy Edelman.  But it seems that skating fashion has moved on and now the skaters rely more than ever on old classical stalwarts (Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Clair de Lune) and on original music pieces.

However, some film scores remain skating warhorses, such as Morricone’s The Mission. Read more here.