Orchestral classical music is timeless. One of the easiest ways to tell which decade a movie or TV show comes from is to wait for the first music cue. But orchestral classical music, with soaring strings, brass, percussion and wind instruments, transcends all fads and trends. We wanted to highlight some of the excellent royalty-free […]

Orchestral classical music is timeless. One of the easiest ways to tell which decade a TV show comes from is to wait for the first music cue. But orchestral classical music, with soaring strings, brass, percussion and wind instruments, transcends all fads and trends. We thought that we would highlight some of the outstanding royalty-free […]

One of George Lucas’s greatest creative decisions was using a live symphony for the Star Wars soundtrack. Why? Because he knew that orchestral classical music is timeless. One of the easiest ways to tell which decade a TV show comes from is to wait for the first music cue. But orchestral classical music, with soaring […]

A few weeks ago Anthony Tommasini wrote an interesting article for The New York Times entitled “The Greatest” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/arts/music/23composers.html?_r=1 , which was about the greatest classical music composers of all time, not including those composers that are still with us. At the top of the list was Johann Sebastian Bach. Rounding out the top three were […]