Writer, director and producer Wes Anderson’s 2018 stop motion animation film Isle of Dogs was first screened at the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival. Anderson won that festival’s Silver Bear award for best director. The film and its musical score, with original music by Alexandre Desplat, also received nominations for Golden Globe, Critic’s Choice and Academy Awards, among others.

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SoundReels: The Delightful Musical Mishmash Of Wes Anderson's 'Isle of Dogs'

This year marks the 10 th anniversary of the animated film Up , directed by Pete Docter, produced by Pixar and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Set initially in Ohio, Up unfolds in dazzling visuals the outlandish adventures of an elderly widower and a young boy.

SoundReels: 10th Anniversary Of 'Up' Is An Adventure For Your Ears

September 2019 marks the 80th anniversary of Hitler's invasion of Poland, which opened the floodgates to World War II. On this occasion, this episode of SoundReels looks at a film set in the later years of the war.

SoundReels: Children's Choirs And Eternal Childhood in 'Empire of the Sun'

September 1, 2019 is the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the combined Nazi and Soviet invasion of Poland, which marked the start of World War II. This episode of SoundsReels explores producer and director Roman Polanski's 2002 film The Pianist and will take you back to that moment in history and into the harrowing true story of Polish-Jewish concert pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman's struggle to survive the brutal realities of the Polish invasion and the Warsaw Uprising.

SoundReels: Music Inside And Outside The Wall In The Pianist

Some operas inspire reverence beyond who gets kissed and who gets killed. Francis Poulenc’s The Dialogues of the Carmelites is chief among them.

Opera Abbreviated: Poulenc's 'Dialogues of the Carmelites'

In 1972, I saw a production of Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Regiment ("The Daughter of the Regiment"), starring Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti. And in 1972, there were no two opera singers more famous, more skilled or greater.

Opera Abbreviated: Donizetti's 'Daughter of the Regiment'

Fifty years ago, a teacher gave me two tickets to see Renata Tebaldi and Franco Corelli in Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur .

Opera Abbreviated: 'Adriana Lecouvreur'

Bring on the dancing. The Metropolitan Opera has a hot new production of Camille Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila (Samson and Delilah) complete with bacchanal.

Opera Abbreviated Podcast: 'Samson et Dalila'

The Metropolitan Opera's Live in HD presentations, beamed into cinemas worldwide, begins a new season Saturday, Oct. 6. Anna Netrebko stars in the title role of Giuseppe Verdi's Aida .

Opera Abbreviated Podcast: Verdi's 'Aida' At The Met

Even if you’ve never seen the 1957 hit musical West Side Story , I'll bet you can hum the tune from "Tonight," "Maria," "America" or any number of the show's signature songs and dance pieces on command.

SoundReels: Dancing With The Devil In Leonard Bernstein's Score For 'West Side Story'

Lawrence of Arabia is, hands down, one of the classics.

SoundReels: Desert Fun With Maurice Jarre's Score For 'Lawrence of Arabia'

A violin with a past is fated to keep dooming the present.

SoundReels: Cycles of Fate in John Corigliano's Score for 'The Red Violin'

John Sturges' 1960 Western remake of Akira Kurosawa's classic film Seven Samurai features an intense musical score by one of the great composers of film music, Elmer Bernstein.

SoundReels: The Surprising Main Character in 'The Magnificent Seven'

Ah, the joys of summer — sunshine, long days, grilling on the patio — and movies.

SoundReels: Classical 101 Launching New Film Music Podcast

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the mother and mother-in-law. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the music lover. And, thanks to the Notorious R.B.G. blog , Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the unexpected pop-culture icon. Now, Ginsburg, 85, is also the inspiration for, and the subject and dedicatee of, a new recording of art songs — many composed specifically for her and in celebration of the quarter-century mark of her Supreme Court career.

'Notorious RBG in Song': New Recording Celebrates Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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