Don't miss David Schiff's article in the April 22 NYTimes - I did, and even though it's getting "old," I wanted to call attention to it, just in case others overlooked it as well. FOR two years in a row, the Academy Award for best film score has gone to a classical composer: first John Corigliano for "The Red Violin," then Tan Dun for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." While cynics claim that this is the film industry's way of advertising its high-art pretensions, Hollywood may really be ahead of New York in acknowledging that the opposition between film music and concert music is a phantom of the last century. Today the two styles constantly interact. John Williams's scores for George Lucas's "Star Wars" movies and for Steven Spielberg's "Jaws" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," which resurrected the symphonic style for film in the 70's, have also exerted a huge influence on the work of young concert composers. Philip Glass's music for "Koyaanisqatsi" made Minimalism an essential component of any film composer's stylistic vocabulary... http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/22/arts/22SCHI.html?ex=989966751 Janos Gereben/SF, CA [log in to unmask]