Every now and then I get to have fun doing something like this.

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	Samba Picante

The 2002 film Home Room featured Erika Christensen and Busy Philips as survivors of a school shooting who become unlikely friends. The end credits music for the film, presented here in extended form, is a trio for piano, cello, and alto flute.

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	Home Room (Main Theme)

This cue from the film Against Time is one of my favorites, doubtless because the scene had just about everything a film composer could ask for. (Tears, father-son bonding, and baseball.) I’m indebted to the Budapest Film Orchestra string section for a particularly lovely performance.

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	After the Game

This week’s selection is some 40s-esque big band swing with an impish clarinet solo in the Benny Goodman / Artie Shaw tradition. (I wish I remembered who performed it. Public service announcement: annotate your soloists!)

In the accompanying film scene, a group of feisty seniors goes on a shopping spree at Guitar Center – which hopefully explains the cue’s seemingly anachronistic guitar solos.

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	Shopping Spree

Video game victory music tends to be brief, so forgive the short music selection this week. Empire Earth 2 had several historical campaigns, including one from the perspective of Prussia. This music capped off the experience of winning one of these episodes.

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	Victory in Prussia