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
The Best of Us, Part Two: Cinematic Inspirations
1/31/2026
It's Part Two of Edmund Stone's The Score, "The Best of Us," an uplifting show featuring some of cinema's most inspiring characters and stories including Casablanca, Forest Gump, Wonka and more.
Alternate Realities
2/21/2026
We've all said it, and film directors love to film it: "What if?" Next time on The Score join Edmund Stone on a mind-bending journey of paradoxes, puzzles and plausibilities as he looks at movies centered around alternate realities, including Back to the Future, The Butterfly Effect, The Matrix and Inception.
Black History Month
2/28/2026
Enjoy music and moments great films and film greats including Idris Elba in Mandela: A Long Walk to Freedom, Viola Davis in Ma Rainy’s Black Bottom, Sidney Poitier In The Heat of the Night and more. Next time on The Score.
Women Who Changed the World
3/4/2026
In honor of Women's History Month Edmund Stone has crafted a show highlighting some of the most influential women in the world. Celebrate powerful women with music from films including philosopher and mathematician Hypatia in Agora to Ruth Bader Ginsberg in On the Basis of Sex, and Academy Award winning film director Chloe Zhao's powerful Nomadland.
2026 Academy Awards
3/11/2026
Take a trip down the red carpet with Edmund Stone, creator, host and producer of The Score as he looks at the five films nominated for Best Score. Early contenders include Hamnet, Wicked for Good, One Battle After Another, Frankenstein and Sinners. Will your favorite be among them?
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