In the month of October, there's nothing like a great scary movie - and behind every creepy film is a spine-tingling score. Listen to an hourlong special hosted by Lynne Warfel, and read Garrett Tiedemann's picks for a deeper dive into spooky movie music.


Hollywood Halloween

To celebrate the moon landing's 50th anniversary, Trylon Cinema in Minneapolis is presenting a film series celebrating journeys into outer space, including '2001: A Space Odyssey' and 'Alien.' Just as monumental as the movies' subjects are many of their unforgettable music scores.


Trylon Cinema's sci-fi series honors moon landing, and lots of great scores

Minneapolis composer Jocelyn Hagen will have a new work, 'The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci,' premiered with the Minnesota Chorale and Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra this weekend. An exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art offered the perfect subject matter for her multimedia symphony.


Leonardo da Vinci comes to life in new work by Minneapolis composer Jocelyn Hagen

This weekend the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra presents a free event for families called Spirited Strings, in which storytelling and music go hand in hand. Hear the violin, viola and cello in a new version of 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears.' Crafts, games and other activities will be available, too.


SPCO hosts Spirited Strings event for families

The 113 Composers Collective, formed in 2012, is providing an opportunity for experimental composers to publish and perform their works. This weekend, they'll be premiering new works with the TAK ensemble.


Twin Cities' 113 Composers Collective creates opportunities for experimental music makers

The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's new Tapestry initiative aims to use "the language of music to explore issues faced by our community." For St. Paul singer and artist PaviElle French, it is the opportunity of a lifetime. She ended up composing her first symphony for an orchestra.


St. Paul artist PaviElle French composes symphony for SPCO's Tapestry series

Are you a composer looking for a filmmaker or a filmmaker looking for a composer? If so, Minnesota's Film Score Fest is something you should know about.


Twin Cities' Film Score Fest aims to match filmmakers with composers

This weekend, the Minnesota Orchestra kicks off a new season of films in concert with a performance of 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban' live at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Conductor Sarah Hicks describes the complicated process of bringing these unique cinematic-musical experiences to the stage.


Minnesota Orchestra conjures 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'

In the northeast Minneapolis suburb of Columbia Heights thrives a pillar of Minnesota movie history, the Heights Theater. And along with its spectacular lobby and elegant auditorium, there is another steadfastly maintained piece of history: the Heights Organ. Take a photo and video tour of this wonderful piece of music-making.


Heights Theater organ preserves the legacy of movie music

In an unassuming Minneapolis storefront, the newly started Resonance Box aims to expand and challenge how we listen to the world around us. Founder Aida Shahghasemi explains how her roots in Persian music drive her efforts.


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