Sunday, June 1, 2008

'Battlestar Galactica' music takes off

Variety.com "Crescendo into bar 46. Much more dramatic -- get to the forte in 45. Bar 34, subito piano on beat two." It may be musical gibberish to most of us. Fortunately, the 30 string players on this date can make sense of the direction from the man on the podium. He's Bear McCreary, conducting cue 4m21 of episode 10 of this season'sBattlestar Galactica at Henson Recording Studios in Hollywood on a recent Monday afternoon. "Galactica" offers some of the most innovative music on TV tod