VARIETY: Is there a good case to be made that Steiner’s music for “King Kong” in 1933 is the most important film score of all time? SMITH: I think there’s no greater way to turn someone off something ...
Composer Max Steiner, whose scores for “King Kong,” “Gone With the Wind” and “Casablanca” placed him in the movie-music pantheon, isn’t much discussed today. He seems to belong to that old-school, pre ...
Menken was announced as the recipient on Feb. 29, 2020, just days before the COVID-19 pandemic put such gatherings on a very long hold. By Paul Grein Alan Menken is finally set to receive the Max ...