“Cinderella” Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Walt Disney Records music.disney.com After a particularly brutal winter, no score is better suited to usher in the spring than Patrick Doyle’s shimmering, beautiful work for Disney’s new live-action “Cinderella.” Re-teaming with director Kenneth Branagh for their 11th film together, Doyle’s score is brimming with classical orchestration and transforms into […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: “Big Hero 6”
“Big Hero 6” Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Walt Disney Records music.disney.com Having composed for more than a dozen features including “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” and “Winnie the Pooh,” Henry Jackman’s filmography has thus far been dominated by two main types of movies: superheroes and animation. With “Big Hero 6,” he finally has a chance […]
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Best of Rochester 2014: Critic Picks
City’s critics weigh in with some of their favorites from around town
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Photos from “TriviaCITY”
CITY Newspaper’s second annual trivia night at the Rochester Fringe Festival featured 17 teams competing at 5 rounds of questions about Rochester, the Fringe, and weird-knowledge trivia. Questions ranged from disco-song-origins, to fill-in-the-blank limericks on notable Rochesterians, a visual round of local logos, and a test of knowledge on the history of the Erie Canal. […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: “Earth to Echo” Original Motion Picture Score
After several years of bringing orchestral elements to collaborations with artists as varied as Kelly Clarkson, Linkin Park, 3Oh!3, and Moby, composer Joseph Trapanese ventures out solo with his score to the sci-fi family film “Earth to Echo.” The album opens and closes (“Just Kids”, “Not Kids Anymore”) with tracks reminiscent of the dreamy guitar […]
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Club Pass Schedule Chart
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CD Review: “How to Train Your Dragon 2” Soundtrack
Composer John Powell’s score to “How to Train Your Dragon 2” musically achieves what we hope from all sequels: incorporating established themes while expanding them with new elements that are just as strong. It’s a delicate line to tread, but it’s one that Powell faces with aplomb. The now-familiar melodies from his Academy Award-nominated score […]
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CD Review: Disney’s “Frozen” Soundtrack
In development for almost as long as Walt Disney Animation Studios has existed, Disney’s adaptation of “The Snow Queen” is now the computer-animated “Frozen” with original songs by Kristen Anderson-Lopez (“In Transit”, “The Wonder Pets”) and Robert Lopez (“Avenue Q”, “The Book of Mormon”), and an orchestral score by Christophe Beck. Having previously written the […]
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“Anomaly” at Rochester Fringe
“Anomaly” by BIODANCE, Sound ExChange and M.W. Harris was performed at the RMSC Strasenburgh Planetarium on Sunday, September 22, 2013.
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PHOTO FEATURE: Living on the Lake
The Greater Rochester area is blessed with miles of Lake Ontario shoreline. The communities that line the lake become especially attractive during the summer. City's photographers set out to capture some of those signature summer scenes in Sodus Point. What are your favorite moments of living along the lakes around Rochester? Share them with us […]
