Happy Thanksgiving to all my reader-listeners in the United States! My feeling is that the holiday calls for some music on the cheerful side. Here’s a warm and sentimental orchestral cue featuring wistful passages for winds, and a triumphant finale for the strings.

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	Happy Reunion

Not every cue can have an interesting name! This optimistic orchestral interlude from the score for the film “The F Zone” was recorded at the now-defunct but highly-respected O’ Henry Studios in Burbank. (Whether it was named after the author or candy bar, I don’t know.)

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	Work Montage

This week’s cue is a song accompanying the titles for Cleve Nettles’ film, “Genie and the Shark”. This was a fun opportunity to write a song and derive a lot of the film’s underscore from the melody or related material.

I won’t give away any plot details, but the musical concept underlying both tune and underscore was, “Arabian nights meets Argentine tango”.

Vocal performance by the very talented Megan Briones. Lyrics by yours truly.

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	For You

After a brief hiatus (for the production of one of my short musical theater projects), the Cue of the Week is back!

As it’s Halloween, it would be remiss of me to not post some spooky music. This horror/suspense cue includes shakuhatchi improvisation, a superball dragged down cello strings, and lots of bowed and scraped sounds. Enjoy!

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	Devil Kills Joey

To provide some perk to your Friday, here’s a bit of almost-ragtime featuring piano and five-string violin. This is the end title music for David Kiang’s dark comedy about a man afflicted with something halfway between divine inspiration and Tourette’s Syndrome.

(I say “almost-” because true ragtime has syncopated rather than swung rhythm.)

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	Better Off Said

More fantasy-genre music this week, and by fantasy I mean bifurcating monsters with a halberd, rather than fine wine on a tropical island. A little bit heroic, a little bit nostalgic, a little bit militaristic. Enjoy!

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	Leaving Dunsmir

In contrast to the acoustic-symphonic gravitas of last week’s musical selection, here’s a contemporary action-adventure theme that blends orchestra, electronica, rock, and far east ethnic instrumentation. Feel free to march towards the camera in dramatic slow motion while you listen.

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	The Fourth Tribe