La-La Land has announced their new releases for March -- next week they will release an expanded version of one of Jerry Goldsmith's final scores, for the 2002 film version of Tom Clancy's THE SUM OF ALL FEARS, and a remastered version of Tangerine Dream's score for the low-budget 1983 science-fiction thriller WAVELENGTH; and two weeks later, they will release a newly expanded version of George Romero's 1982 classic CREEPSHOW, this time featuring both John Harrison's original music as well as library cues used in the film.

On April 15, Varese Sarabande will release the score CD for the new action movie NEED FOR SPEED (or as I like to call it, 2 Soon 4 Fast & Furious 7), starring unlikely action hero Aaron Paul (of Breaking Bad fame). The score was composed by Nathan Furst, who also scored Act of Valor for Need for Speed director Scott Waugh.

As most of you probably already know, Steven Price won the latest Original Score Oscar for GRAVITY, while Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez won for FROZEN's original song "Let It Go."

On Tuesday, March 18, the Academy will present ENNIO MORRICONE IN CONVERSATION WITH QUENTIN TARANTINO, live at the Bing Theater at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The event is currently sold out, but there will be a standby line in case seats become available at the last minute.

In other Academy news, last Thursday, at UCLA's Royce Hall, all of the 2013 Original Score nominees -- William Butler, Alexandre Desplat, Thomas Newman, Owen Pallett, Steven Price and John Williams -- took part in the Academy's first ever OSCAR CONCERT. Common hosted the event, which featured critic Elvis Mitchell discussing the scores with their composers, followed by lengthy suites performed by an expert orchestra of studio musicians -- Desplat, Newman and Williams conducted their own work, Pallett conducted the Butler/Pallett Her suite, and Oblivion's Joseph Trapanese conducted Price's Gravity. Vocal performances of the nominated songs included Cristin Milioti (DiCaprio's first wife in The Wolf of Wall Street) singing Her's "The Moon Song," Jill Scott singing "Happy" from Despicable Me 2, and lyricist Kristen Anderson-Lopez doing an extremely impressive rendition of her "Let It Go" from Frozen, accompanied on the piano by her husband/composer Robert Lopez. Though there were occasional moments of awkwardness -- a false start opening, Mitchell's repetitive questions, and too much of the hosts telling the audience what a wonderful evening it was -- it truly was a wonderful evening, and one can only hope the Academy will do it again. Next year would be nice. 

CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

An Adventure in Space and Time - Edmund Butt - Silva
Good Will Hunting - Danny Elfman - Music Box
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Alexandre Desplat - ABKCO
Hold Up/Dernier Ete a Tanger - Serge Franklin - Music Box
Justininen Trouve - Germinal Tenas - Disques CineMusique
La Galette Du Roi/Promis...Jure! - Vladimir Cosma - Disques CineMusique
The Meteor Man - Cliff Eidelman - Intrada Special Collection
Mio Caro Dr. Grasler [The Bachelor] - Ennio Morricone - GDM
Mr. Peabody & Sherman - Danny Elfman - Relativity Music
Non-Stop - John Ottman - Varese Sarabande
Pizza Connection - Carlo Savina - GDM
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Encounter at Farpoint/The Arsenal of Freedom - Dennis McCarthy - GNP Crescendo
300: Rise of an Empire - Junkie XL - Watertower

IN THEATERS TODAY

The Activist - Cyril Morin
Awful Nice - Mark Harrison
Bethlehem - Ishai Adar
The Face of Love - Marcelo Zarvos
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Alexandre Desplat - Score CD on ABKCO
In Fear - Roly Porter, Daniel Pemberton
Kids for Cash - Michael Brook
Mr. Peabody and Sherman - Danny Elfman - Score CD on Relativity Music
Particle Fever - Robert Miller
Southern Baptist Sissies - Joe Patrick Ward
300: Rise of an Empire - Junkie XL - Score CD on Watertower

COMING SOON

March 11
After the Dark - Nicholas O'Toole, Jonathan Korn - Varese Sarabande
The Basil Poledouris Collection Vol. 1 - Basil Poledouris - Buysoundtrax
Enemy - Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans - Milan
Flash Gordon Vol. 1 - Michael Picton - Perseverance
The Sum of All Fears - Jerry Goldsmith - La-La Land
Wavelength - Tangerine Dream - La-La Land
March 25
Creepshow - John Harrison, various - La-La Land
The Film Music of Miklos Rozsa - Miklos Rozsa - Chandos
The Right King of Wrong - Rachel Portman - Varese Sarabande
April 1
Bates Motel - Chris Bacon - Varese Sarabande
April 15
Need for Speed - Nathan Furst - Varese Sarabande
April 22
House of Cards: Season Two - Jeff Beal - Varese Sarabande
Date Unknown
Danza Macabra - Riz Ortolani - Digitmovies
Donna Leon - Ulrich Reuter, Florial Appl, Andre Rieu - Alhambra
Geminus - Bruno Nicolai - Beat
Grazie...Nonna - Enrico Simonetti - Beat
In Einem Wilden Land [In A Wild Country] -  Karim Sebastian Elias - Alhambra
Inspektor Jury - Marcel Barsotti - Alhambra
La Casa Delle Donne - Radicanto - Intermezzo Media
La Regina dei Tartari - Bruno Canfora - Digitmovies
La Seconda Moglie - Aldo de Scalzi, Pivio de Scalzi - Intermezzo Media
L'Odore Delle Nozze - Aldo de Scalzi, Pivio de Scalzi - Intermezzo Media
Luana, The Girl Tarzan - Stelvio Cipriani - Beat
O. Henry's Full House/The Luck of the Irish - Alfred Newman/Cyril J. Mockridge - Kritzerland
Secret Sharer/Tsotsi - Guy Farley - Caldera
7 KM Da Gerusalemme - Aldo de Scalzi, Pivio de Scalzi, Transcendental - Intermezzo Media
Steam: The Turkish Bath - Transcendental - Intermezzo Media
Three Days (of Hamlet) - Jonathan Beard - Buysoundtrax
Trinita E Sartana Figli Di... - Carlo Savina - Digitmovies
Tulpa - The Alvarius - Beat
Viva La Liberta - Marco Betta - Beat

THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY

March 7 - King Kong premieres in New York (1933)
March 7 - Miklos Rozsa wins first Oscar for Spellbound score (1946)
March 7 - Ron Jones records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Allegiance" (1990)
March 7 - Gordon Parks died (2006)
March 7 - Michael Giacchino wins his first Oscar for Up (2010)
March 8 - Dick Hyman born (1927)
March 8 - Bruce Broughton born (1945)
March 8 - Jerry Goldsmith records his score for the pilot to Dr. Kildare (1961)
March 8 - Jerry Goldsmith begins recording orchestral cues for Logan's Run score (1976)
March 8 - William Walton died (1983)
March 9 - John Cale born (1940)
March 9 - Richard Stone died (2001)
March 10 - Arthur Honegger born (1892)
March 10 - Lost Horizon premieres in Los Angeles (1937)
March 10 - Charles Previn, head of the Universal Music Department, wins the Score Oscar for One Hundred Men and a Girl, for which no composer is credited (1938)
March 10 - Brad Fiedel born (1951)
March 10 - Marc Donahue born (1953)
March 11 - Recording sessions begin for Bronislau Kaper's score to Lili (1952)
March 11 - David Newman born (1954)
March 11 - Ron Jones records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Heart of Glory" (1988)
March 12 - Georges Delerue born (1925)
March 12 - David Shire begins recording his score for Short Circuit (1986)
March 13 - Hugo Friedhofer wins his only Oscar, for The Best Years of Our Lives score (1947)
March 13 - Terence Blanchard born (1962)
March 13 - Carl Davis begins recording his score to The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)

DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?

IN SECRET - Gabriel Yared

"After bringing such a dreamy quality to Terence Davies’ far more affecting 'The Deep Blue Sea,' director of photography Florian Hoffmeister’s compositions are surprisingly flat and visually dull, and Gabriel Yared’s suffocating original score is a million miles away from his work on genre gem 'The Talented Mr. Ripley.'"

Geoff Berkshire, Paste Magazine

"This and every other plot turn is so overtly telegraphed -- by swelling music, foreboding dialogue, and lots and lots of pouting -- as to rid the narrative of all momentum, even if you're unfamiliar with Zola's text."

David Lee Dallas, Slant Magazine

THE NEXT TEN DAYS IN L.A.

Screenings of older films, at the following L.A. movie theaters: AMPAS, American Cinematheque: Aero, American Cinematheque: Egyptian, LACMA, New Beverly, Nuart, Silent Movie Theater and UCLA.

March 7
BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR [New Beverly]
DOWN BY LAW (John Lurie), STRANGER THAN PARADISE (John Lurie) [LACMA/AMPAS]
A HATFUL OF RAIN (Bernard Herrmann) [UCLA]
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (Alan Menken, Miles Goodman) [Silent Movie Theater]
MAUVAIS SANG [Silent Movie Theater]
PRINCESS MONONOKE (Joe Hisaishi) [Nuart]

March 8
BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR [New Beverly]
DEAD MAN (Neil Young) [LACMA/AMPAS]
MAUVAIS SANG [Silent Movie Theater]
MYSTERY TRAIN (John Lurie) [LACMA/AMPAS]
THE SANDWICH MAN, ISLAND ETUDE (Cincin Lee) [UCLA]
SPACE JAM (James Newton Howard) [Silent Movie Theater]
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY [Cinematheque: Aero]

March 9
BECKET (Laurence Rosenthal) [Cinematheque: Aero]
JANE EYRE (Dario Marianelli), WUTHERING HEIGHTS [New Beverly]
MAUVAIS SANG [Silent Movie Theater]
THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (Mark Mothersbaugh) [Arclight Sherman Oaks]
SOLEDAD'S SHAWL (Francisco Dominguez) [UCLA]
THE STRAIGHT STORY (Angelo Badalementi) [Arclight Hollywood]

March 10
BACK TO THE FUTURE (Alan Silvestri) [Arclight Hollywood]
JANE EYRE (Dario Marianelli), WUTHERING HEIGHTS [New Beverly]
SCARFACE (Giorgio Moroder) [Arclight Sherman Oaks]
3:10 TO YUMA (Marco Beltrami) [Cinematheque: Aero]

March 11
ALIENS (James Horner) [Arclight Hollywood]
JANE EYRE (Dario Marianelli), WUTHERING HEIGHTS [New Beverly]
MIRAGE (Quincy Jones) [LACMA]
WILD AT HEART (Angelo Badalamenti) [Arclight Hollywood]

March 12
REQUIEM FOR  A DREAM (Clint Mansell), JESUS' SON (Joe Henry) [New Beverly]
T-MEN (Paul Sawtell), RAW DEAL (Paul Sawtell) [UCLA]

March 13
REQUIEM FOR  A DREAM (Clint Mansell), JESUS' SON (Joe Henry) [New Beverly]
SALVATORE GIULIANO (Piero Piccioni) [LACMA]

March 14
HIDER IN THE HOUSE (Christopher Young) [Silent Movie Theater]
THE MASTER (Jonny Greenwood) [Cinematheque: Aero]
MELANCHOLIA, ANTICHRIST [New Beverly]
NEAR DARK (Tangerine Dream) [Arclight Hollywood]
NEXT STOP, GREENWICH VILLAGE (Bill Conti) [Silent Movie Theater]
TROLL 2 (Carla Maria Cordio) [Nuart]
WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? [UCLA]

March 15
BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE (Quincy Jones), DRINKING BUDDIES [Silent Movie Theater]
BOOGIE NIGHTS (Michael Penn), HAPPINESS (Robbie Kondor) [Cinematheque: Aero]
MELANCHOLIA, ANTICHRIST [New Beverly]
PIECES (Carla Maria Cordio) [New Beverly]
SIDE STREET (Lennie Hayton), WINCHESTER '73 [UCLA]

March 16
HAIRSPRAY (Chris Stein), CRY-BABY (Patrick Williams) [New Beverly]
PAPER MOON [Arclight Hollywood]