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Okay, so "American Pie 2: Music from the Motion Picture" does not boast any material likely to join "Lara's Theme" from "Dr. Zhivago" and the overture from "Gone With the Wind" in the pantheon of soundtrack music treasured by successive generations. But the album, released by Universal a week before the movie opened last weekend to the tune of $45 million, bears scrutiny as a document of our age. Considered in combination with the movie, it offers an image of contemporary middle-class teenagers that differs widely from the image presented in the teen movies and music...
...folksy vocals to a lament on contemporary rootlessness before the whole thing explodes into a galaxy of dissonant synth spirals and stuttering reverb. Radian builds slowly in layers of symphonic strings and acoustic guitar into an achingly beautiful instrumental anthem. Like all Air's tunes, it's a mini-soundtrack in itself, an accompaniment for one of the many moods a day can bring...
...recently performed with Itzhak Perlman at the Academy Awards, playing themes from movies nominated for Best Score, including Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Ma is featured on the soundtrack from that movie, which won the Oscar in that category...
Kraft spent the past three years overseeing work on the soundtrack for the movie Moulin Rouge, which uses its music as a fundamental plot device...
...orchestrated compositions are bound to captivate, as they did in Romeo + Juliet. If Luhrman has learned anything since then, it's that he can't treat romance glibly, but he's still relying on pop-culture icons to underscore his narratives. How a 19th century costume drama has a soundtrack featuring Lil' Kim and Pink boggles the mind. Just looking to the opening sequence (they're usually spectacular) and the promise of Kidman doing the can-can will ensure great box office receipts. It may be, as the trailers say, "A Story About Love", but it's also about Ewan...