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! Find playlists and listen again at www.thescore.org.
Program Schedule
I Spy
8/2/2025
They live - and die - in the shadows. The intrigue of spy thrillers continues to captivate us with their exploration of international intrigue, moral dilemmas and gritty action. Join Stone, Edmund Stone in action in a show called I Spy and steal a peek behind the curtain of covert operations with music from Mission Impossible 8: The Final Reckoning, The 355, Notorious, Riley Ace of Spies and more.
Talisman
8/9/2025
They ward off evil, they bring you luck, they are imbued with magical powers… they are talismans. People have been using them for millennia, and movies love them. Join Edmund Stone for a Score filled with cinematic mojo of these mysterious charms including the One Ring from Lord of the Rings, the endlessly spinning top in Inception, the Time Stone from Doctor Strange and more.
Summer Blockbusters
8/16/2025
This week on The Score Edmund Stone has your ticket to music from Hollywood’s biggest films with the 2025 Summer Blockbusters. Relive the adrenaline rush from Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning, bond with an alien in Lilo and Stitch, plot with Wes Anderson and an all-star cast with The Phoenician Scheme, more. Grab some popcorn and celebrate summer cinema!
50 Years of Summer Blockbusters
8/23/2025
This week Edmund Stone, creator, host and producer of The Score marks TWO major milestones in film history - the 50th anniversary of the Summer Blockbuster and the 900th Score episode! Blockbusters started with Jaws in 1975, and The Score has been celebrating music in the movies 900 times… and counting. Hear music from some of the biggest summer movies EVER including The Dark Knight, ET, Finding Nemo, Alien and more.
Math Rocks
8/30/2025
It’s time to get Back to School! On this week’s episode Edmund Stone has a “number” of reasons to learn to love the subject of math - go figure! Listen to music from soundtracks of films that prove that school can be cool and math is awesome. Learn how to survive when stranded on Mars with The Martian, check out the team of codebreakers that saved Europe in WWII with The Enigma Game, match minds with Steven Hawking in A Brief History of Time, and more.
Support Our Radio Station
Help keep Classical 89 alive by making a charitable donation today!