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Weekly TV Music Roundup (April 5, 2020)

Premiering in the U.S. is the World War II drama World on Fire written by Peter Bowker and starring Julia Brown, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Sean Bean, Lesley Manville, Jonah Hauer-King, Helen Hunt, Blake Harrison, Zofia Wichłacz, Brian J. Smith, Parker Sawyers, Tomasz Kot, Bruno Alexander, Patrick Kennedy, Johannes Zeiler and Eugénie Derouand. Dan Jones (On Chesil Beach, Shadow of the Empire, Any Human Heart, Lady Macbeth, The Miniaturist) has composed the show’s original music. Dubois Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the selections of the drama’s score. Check out our previous news article for the full album details and for more information, which is premiering stateside on PBS.

Also premiering tonight is the British drama The Windermere Children directed by Michael Samuels and starring Thomas Kretschmann, Romola Garai, Tim McInnerny, Iain Glen, Tomasz Studzinski, Anna Maciejewska, Kuba Sprenger, Marek Wrobelewski and Kacper Swietek. Alex Baranowski (Nureyev: Lifting the Curtain) has composed the film’s original music. Sony Classical has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the movie, which premiered in the UK earlier this year on BBC Two and is making its U.S. debut on PBS.

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‘Dolphin Reef’ Soundtrack Details

Walt Disney Records will release the official soundtrack album for the Disneynature documentary Dolphin Reef. The album features the film’s original score composed by Academy Award winner Steven Price (Gravity, Our Planet, Suicide Squad, Fury, The World’s End, The Hunt, Baby Driver). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, April 3 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Dolphin Reef is directed by Keith Scholey (African Cats), produced by Alastair Fothergill and narrated by Natalie Portman. The movie centers on Echo, a young Pacific bottlenose dolphin who can’t quite decide if it’s time to grow up and take on new responsibilities.

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Soundtrack Album for Disney+ Documentary ‘Elephant’ to Be Released

Walt Disney Records will release the official soundtrack album for the Disneynature documentary Elephant. The album features the film’s original music composed by Ramin Djawadi (Game of Thrones, Westworld, Iron Man, Clash of the Titans, Pacific Rim, A Wrinkle in Time). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, April 3 and will be available to stream and download on Amazon Music. Elephant is directed by Mark Linfield (Monkey Kingdom, Chimpanzee), co-directed by Vanessa Berlowitz & Alastair Fothergill (Planet Earth, Penguins) and narrated by Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex. The movie follows African elephant Shani and her spirited son Jomo as their herd make an epic journey hundreds of miles across the vast Kalahari Desert.

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Weekly TV Music Roundup (March 29, 2020)

Premiering on Tuesday, March 31, is the HBO Sports documentary The Scheme directed by Pat Kondelis about Christian Dawkins who was convicted in federal court in the biggest criminal case in collegiate sports history. The film’s original music is composed by Danny Bensi &  Saunder Jurriaans (Boy Erased, The Gift, Ozark, Enemy, Fear the Walking Dead). Check out our previous news article and visit HBO’s official website to learn more about the movie, which will premiere on HBO.

Premiering on Thursday, April 2, is the new CBS comedy Broke created by Alex Herschlag and starring Jaime Camil, Pauley Perrette, Natasha Leggero, Izzy Diaz and Antonio Raul Corbo. Frank Ciampi (Happy Together, All About the Washingtons) is composing the show’s original music. The CBS Television Studitos production centers on a single suburban mother who’s shocked when her estranged sister and her husband and his fiercely loyal assistant/driver/friend land on her doorstep in need of a place to live after the couple’s money dries up. Visit the official show website for updates on the comedy, which will air every Thursday night on CBS.

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‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ – The Final Season (Episodes 1-4) Soundtrack Released

Walt Disney Records has released the first full soundtrack album for the final season of Lucasfilm’s animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s first four episodes from Season 7 composed by Kevin Kiner (Star Wars Rebels, Narcos: Mexico, Doom Patrol, CSI: Miami, Titans, Making a Murderer).  The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon Music, where you can also listen to audio samples. The label has previously released a soundtrack album featuring selections of Kiner’s score from the first six seasons, as well as his Bad Batch Theme from the current season. Two more soundtrack featuring more music from the final season are scheduled to come out on April 10 and May 4.

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‘Stargirl’ Soundtrack Details

The full details of the soundtrack album for the Disney+ original movie Stargirl have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Rob Simonsen (Nerve, Love, Simon, The Way Back, Foxcatcher, (500) Days of Summer, The Spectacular Now, Tully). Also included are the songs from the movie by Grace VanderWaal, Graham Verchere and Big Star. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, March 13 by Walt Disney Records and will be available to stream/download here. Stargirl is directed by Julia Hart and stars VanderWaal & Verchere, alongside Giancarlo Esposito, Karan Brar, Darby Stanchfield and Maximiliano Hernandez. The movie is based on Jerry Spinelli’s New York Times’ best-selling young adult novel about an unassuming high schooler who finds himself inexplicably drawn to the free-spirited new girl, whose unconventional ways change how they see themselves and their world.

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Weekly TV Music Roundup (March 8, 2020)

Premiering in the U.S. tomorrow, March 9, is the British thriller Temple developed by Mark O’Rowe based on the Norwegian series Valkyrien and starring Mark Strong, Carice van Houten and Daniel Mays. The show’s original music is composed by Matthew Herbert (Disobedience, A Fantastic Woman, The Cave, Life in a Day, Gloria Bell). SATV Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s music from the first season. Check out our previous news article to learn more about the series, which premiered in the UK on Sky last year and is making its U.S. debut on Charter Communication’s Spectrum.

Also premiering tomorrow is the docu-series Cosmos: Possible Worlds presented by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and written, directed and executive produced by Ann Druyan & Brannon Braga. Alan Silvestri (Avengers: Endgame, Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, Cast Away, The Polar Express, Captain America: The First Avenger) who previously scored 2014’s Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey has composed the show’s original music. For more information about the series, which will premiere on National Geographic and will also air on Fox this summer, visit the official show website.

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Grace VanderWaal’s Original Song ‘Today and Tomorrow’ from Disney+’s ‘Stargirl’ Released

Columbia Records has released the original song Today and Tomorrow from the Disney+ original movie Stargirl. The track is  written and performed by Grace VanderWaal (who made her acting debut on the movie) and is now available to download as a digital single on Amazon. The song will also be featured on the film’s official soundtrack album (which also includes the movie’s original score by Rob Simonsen), which will be released on March 13 by Walt Disney Records. Listen to the full track after the jump. Stargirl is directed by Julia Hart and also stars Graham Verchere, Giancarlo Esposito, Karan Brar, Darby Stanchfield and Maximiliano Hernandez.

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Soundtrack for Pixar SparkShorts’ ‘Float’ Released

Walt Disney Records has a soundtrack EP for Pixar SparkShorts’ Float. The 5-track EP features the film’s original music composed by Barney Jones who previously scored the SparksShorts title Smash and Grab. The soundtrack is now available to stream and download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Float is written and directed by Bobby Rubio and features the voices of Rubio himself, Eli Fucile, Luna Watson and Mika Kubo. The Pixar Animation Studios production follows a father who discovers that his son floats and must decide whether to run and hide or to accept his son as he is.

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Soundtrack for Pixar SparkShorts’ ‘Wind’ Released

Walt Disney Records has released a soundtrack album for Pixar SparkShorts’ Wind. The album features the film’s original music composed by Andrew Jimenez who previously scored the Academy Award-nominated short Kitbull. The soundtrack is now available to stream and download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Wind is written and directed by Edwin Chang and features the voices of Sonoko Konishi and Emilio Fuentes. The Pixar Animation Studios production focuses on a grandmother and grandson longing to escape an endless chasm, scavenging debris that surrounds them to realize their dream of escaping to a better life.

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