In the early 1980s, budding TV and movie composer Brad Fiedel landed a gig on a low-budget sci-fi film (from the up-and-coming director of Piranha 2) that seemed like the perfect way to flex his ...

A trusty maxim in the field of film composers states that one shouldn’t judge the artist by the filmography — or at least not only by that measure. Many famed Hollywood-linked composers have spent ...