Fall Film & TV Music: Penny serenade

November 12, 2008 [...] to achieve that, he also needed to work with musicians who could pull it off -- and that meant recording in either London or Los Angeles, the two capitals of film music. Kaczmarek is one of innumerable composers, musicians and others toiling in the movie music arena who are being forced to find new solutions to an increasingly prevalent problem: a lack of money. From the biggest-budget studio ventures to the tiniest indies, the entire industry is dealing with an economic crunch that is making even the tight budgets of yore seem like a windfall.

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