Edmund Stone
About The Score
Saturdays 8am, 6pm
The Score with Edmund Stone is a weekly celebration of symphonic music in film. Each program is crafted around specific composers, film genres, or themes. Tune in and enjoy the symphonic music that makes good movies great, including music of forgotten films! Following our broadcasts, listen again at www.thescore.org.
Program Schedule
Must-See List, Part Two: Groundbreakers and Industry Changers
05/30/2026
The Score is celebrating 20 years of great entertainment with a musical library of "Must-See Movies". This week, Part Two features groundbreakers and industry changers - what makes them great, how they changed cinema as we know it and of course, their fantastic music. Join Edmund Stone for a look back at amazing films such as The Godfather, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Toy Story and more.
Must See List, Part Three – Great Stories
06/06/2026
The Score is celebrating two decades of music in the movies with a musical library of “Must-See Movies”. In Part Three, Edmund Stone is spotlighting films that are truly great stories. From The Banshees of Inishirin to Forrest Gump, Schindler’s List and more, these are movies you really should see at least once in your life, all set to fantastic music.
Must See List, Part Four – Thought Provoking Cinema
06/13/2026
Part Four of Edmund Stone’s celebration of 20 years of The Score is a show filled with must-see films that are thought provoking gems. From Interstellar to Inception, An Inconvenient Truth to Arrival and Everything Everywhere All at Once, these are movies that will spark conversation and make you think. You just might not see things the same way ever again.
Must See List, Part Five – Amazing Entertainment
06/20/2026
Happy 20th Anniversary to The Score! Edmund Stone is wrapping up his special five-part series celebrating this milestone with a show called Amazing Entertainment - films that he has selected as being movies you should see at least once in your life. The spotlight is on movies that are exceptional entertainment including The Princess Bride, Young Frankenstein, Coco, Cinema Paradiso and more.
Great Detectives
06/27/2026
If you love a mystery, this week’s Score is for you as host Edmund Stone matches music and moments with the wit and wile of Great Detectives. Hunt hounds with Holmes in the Baskervilles, solve murder on the Orient Express, find the Maltese Falcon with Sam Spade, use detective tech with the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It’s mystery and mayhem, this week on The Score.
250 Years of Americana – Laughs, American Style, Part One
7/4/2026
Celebrate America’s 250th birthday with love and laughter with Edmund Stone in Part One of The Score’s two-part musical party called Laughs, American Style. Hear Benjamin Franklin compare the new country to an egg in the musical 1776. Smile with Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times. Get through the Great Depression with the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup, and look back at the ‘60s with American Graffiti. It’s Americana, as only the movies can do it.
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