In the spirit of the holiday, here’s my frenetic interpretation of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.

Tip of the santa hat to the folks at APM Music (for whose “Holiday Madness” release this cue was written). Hope you’re all having a joyous Christmas day and looking forward to a splendid New Year.

This elegiac piece, squarely in the epic fantasy tradition, features a haunting vocal performance by recording and performing artist Jennifer Lindsay.

Happy Thanksgiving to my American readers! I like to make my musical selections holiday-themed, but Thanksgiving is a tough nut to crack in that regard. This week’s selection has a warm conclusion which will hopefully approximate the feelings of the season.

This week’s selection is a dark sci-fi cue portending threatening saucers in the sky. Time to drape some camouflage tarp over our national monuments!

A rollicking orchestral cue written for a feature film early in my career. It’s also one of the first full orchestra pieces I conducted personally. Given that this was a seasoned AFM ensemble, the experience was a bit intimidating. (Especially since I often had to tell the musicians to quit talking so much!)

The cue has been recently remastered, and thus sounds more detailed and, for lack of a better term, shinier than ever.