The Score: Interviews With Film Composers covers 15 film composers from a wide array of backgrounds, specializing in a range of musical styles, at various stages in their career. Established composers such as Elmer Bernstein talk about student days spent with Aaron Copland as well as work that runs the gamut, from The Magnificent Seven and To Kill a Mockingbird to Animal House and Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear. "What has stayed the same is that the film always talks to me," he tells Schelle. up-and-comers such as jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard chat about maintaining dual careers and working with spiritual mentor Art Blakey and frequent collaborator Spike Lee.

Interviews with:

John Barry, Elmer Bernstein, Terence Blanchard, Bruce Broughton, Paul Chihara, John Corigliano, James Newton Howard, Mark Isham, Daniel Licht, Joel McNeely, Thomas Newman, Marc Shaiman, Howard Shore, Shirley Walker, Christopher Young