Month: February 2025

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#68 – 2025 Oscars Special

It’s back to the Oscars stage for Jon and Andy, to talk about this year’s nominees for Best Original Score, and it’s back to some age old questions: Do we want our music made out of notes or blobs? Does reading up about these scores get in the way of our curmudgeonly opinions? And, how much music should a musical’s music music?

Settling the Score
Settling the Score
#68 - 2025 Oscars Special
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#67 – The Graduate

Are you here for an affair? Ah yes, an episode of Settling the Score, very good sir – this one’s about Simon and Garfunkel’s song score to Mike Nichol’s classic 1967 satire The Graduate. How was this movie pioneering in its use of music? Do these famous songs engender sympathy or skepticism for the characters, or both? And, it’s okay to ask: do these lyrics actually mean anything?

Settling the Score
Settling the Score
#67 - The Graduate
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