Sunday, January 20, 2019

A Score To Settle Podcast - Episode 21, Listening To... Alan Silvestri

Happy New Year and welcome to the first episode of the podcast for 2019! I hope everyone has been enjoying a great start to the new year so far. I am opening with an installment of my "Listening To..." series, focusing on specific composers. This time I am diving into the film and TV music of fan favorite composer, Alan Silvestri. At an early age, Silvestri took to playing both drums and guitar, furthering his studies at Berklee College in Boston and quickly deciding to simply move to Los Angeles to put his talent into practice.  He began by performing in and arranging songs for touring bands, such as Wayne Cochran and the CC Riders, later finding his way into television scoring and hitting it big in this arena with the popular series "CHiPs", where he provided disco-flavored music for each episode. 

This percussive, rhythmic approach brought him to the attention of director Robert Zemeckis, who in 1984 needed to find a composer to score his South American-set comedy-adventure ROMANCING THE STONE. With this project, Silvestri and Zemeckis began a fruitful partnership that continues to this day, with Silvestri scoring all of Zemeckis' films, from BACK TO THE FUTURE and WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT to FORREST GUMP and THE POLAR EXPRESS. Outside of the Zemeckis canon, he also composed wonderfully robust music for action movies, such as PREDATOR, comedies, such as SOAPDISH, Westerns (YOUNG GUNS II), animation (THE CROODS), science fiction (THE ABYSS) and has recently been called into service in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to underscore the adventures of CAPTAIN AMERICA and also THE AVENGERS.

I hope that everyone who listens will enjoy the episode, whether it's your first or you're a long time listener. As usual, forgive me any technical and factual gaffes. Below is the embedded player from which you can listen or simply click on the website link to head directly to where the podcast is hosted on Podbean.

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