10. Random Harvest / The Yearling (Film Score Monthly) Pioneer film composer Herbert Stothart finally receives his CD due with the premiere release of these two 1940s MGM classics, restored from surviving production masters one a romantic, Oscar-nominated original score; and the other based beautifully on themes by Frederick Delius. Writer-historian Marilee Bradford received the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for her liner notes. 11.

Hitchcock’s Music by Jack Sullivan (Yale University Press) and How the West Was Sung: Music in the Westerns of John Ford by Kathryn Kalinak (University of California Press) These two publications may be of interest to movie-music collectors.

Sullivan’s book is a thorough examination of the many scores by Herrmann, R zsa, Tiomkin, Webb and others, right up through Williams’ Family Plot for the Master of Suspense; while Kalinak’s book explores music (both score and source) in such classics as Stagecoach , The Searchers and Cheyenne Autumn .