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Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' soundtrack to the film Gone Girl comes out Sept. 30.

First Listen: Trent Reznor And Atticus Ross, ‘Gone Girl (Motion Picture Soundtrack)’

Gone Girl is Reznor and Ross’ third soundtrack collaboration under the direction of David Fincher. As with their past work together, the music suits the story that inspired it perfectly.

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Maria von Trapp in 2008 at the age of 93. The daughter of Austrian Baron Georg von Trapp, points to her father on an old family picture. She died on Tuesday at her home in Vermont.

Last Of The ‘Sound Of Music’ Von Trapps Dies At 99

Maria Von Trapp, the last of the seven-member Trapp Family Singers that inspired the play and film, died on Tuesday at her home in Vermont.

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Classical Music Piece Enhances Roald Dahl’s ‘Dirty Beasts’

On Sunday, the London Philharmonic debuted a new piece of music based on Roald Dahl’s Dirty Beasts. With Matilda playing to sold-out crowds on Broadway and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory running in London’s West End, this is just the latest work by the author to get a musical soundtrack.

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A Chinese student at the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, where speakers playing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony were rigged up to drown out government broadcasts.

The ‘Ode To Joy’ As A Call To Action

Melissa Block talks with Kerry Candaele, director of the documentary Following the Ninth. The film explores how Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony continues to “offer hope in an unhappy world.”

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