Having returned from a well-enjoyed summer trip to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I’m happy to put the Cue of the Week blog back in operation!

This week’s music is the main title from a documentary with an extraordinary subject: Catherine Bolton, a single mom who lost her sight in her mid 30s, then become a champion in blind and sight-impaired fencing. Solo piano accompanies the film’s main title sequence of slow-motion fencers in black and white.

A close cousin to last week’s The Stormy Sea, this piece continues the atmosphere of nautical adventure and mystery.

This week’s cue comes from a forthcoming puzzle game with a nautical theme. This music accompanies an overhead view of the world map, festooned with treasure-hunting, monsters, and other hallmarks of adventure.

This week’s cue is some playful and eccentric underscore from a forthcoming puzzle game. And nothing says playful and eccentric like a bass clarinet.

This week’s music comes from the political thriller The F-Zone. To accompany a quietly satisfying moment for the beleaguered protagonists, I took a soaring “adventure” theme from earlier in the movie and rearranged it into a gentle interlude for harp and alto flute. Never forget: composers like recycling.

This week’s selection is a blend of two related cues from my score for the film Home Room. Both passages feature lyrical woodwind solos against strings, harp and piano, creating a mood that I’d describe as cautious hopefulness.