Word: musicalization
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...been a Bollywood icon for years, this man behind some of the most stunning movie soundtracks ever composed (chief among them the innovative score to Roja). But it's his music for this year's Oscar darling, Slumdog Millionaire that has made A.R. Rahman an instant hit with western audiences. Not only are sales of the soundtrack soaring as the film opens wide in Britain and the United States, but Rahman has been nominated for three Oscars - for best original score, as well as for the songs "O ... Saya" and "Jai Ho." (Read the behind-the-scenes story of Slumdog...
...worked on so many Bollywood epics, but Slumdog Millionaire was a film made by a team of Brits who set up camp in India. Was it a different experience, working on this film? Definitely. The way that [Director] Danny [Boyle] uses music in his films is completely different from even other directors in the West. He uses songs as scores, and uses each moment of music as a highlight, which is very exciting. So I knew he was going to mix the music very high, which normally is not the case in most films, where the music is mixed underneath...
...What was the process between you and Danny? I knew he had a very good ear for music, and I trusted the way he selected cues. I gave him four or five choices for each cue and then he would pick the one he liked and he would spend weeks trying to insert them. Any good idea I had, I'd send him a scratch of it via e-mail, and then he'd respond to two or three of those. It was a totally different way of working. [It meant that] there were a lot of ideas that didn...
...Winter Dance Party tour continued, with Waylon Jennings singing Holly's songs and other teen sensations, including 18-year-old Frankie Avalon, flown out to finish the tour. Holly's body was shipped back home to Lubbock, Texas. His Baptist family never approved of his music and none of his songs were played at his funeral...
Then a strange thing happened. Holly's last single, "It Doesn't Matter Anymore," had endured sluggish sales. The music industry had not yet discovered the commercial allure of untimely deaths, and record executives were shocked to see the song shoot up to number 13 on the charts...