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
Frenemies
08/01/2026
You may be familiar with the expression: “With friends like these, who needs enemies?” If so, then you know what a “Frenemy” is. Today on The Score we’re looking at films filled with “Frenemies” - relationships that can be charming… or chafing. Enjoy the on-screen rivalries of Buzz and Woody in Toy Story, Thor and Star Lord in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Davidge and Drac in Enemy Mine.
Summer Blockbusters 2026
08/08/2026
Get ready for some of the biggest films of the year with Edmund Stone's annual celebration of Summer Blockbusters on The Score! Match wits with The Sheep Detectives, step into myths and legends with The Odyssey, join the Force with The Mandalorian and Grogu - and more. The lineup is packed with great entertainment and great music.
Fantastic Flora
08/15/2026
Do you talk to your plants? You just might, after the next episode of The Score. Edmund Stone branches out with a show that's all about sentient plants. From Audrey of The Little Shop of Horrors to that Guardian of the Galaxy Groot, to the Ents of Fangorn Forest in The Lord of the Rings, it's a show filled with Fantastic Flora, rooted in myth and mystery, all set to fantastic film music.
When the Muse Visits
08/22/2026
In this episode of The Score, Edmund Stone takes a look and a listen to movies that ponder the question "where does inspiration come from?" Enjoy depictions of inspiration including classical influences from the Muses in The Odyssey, divine inspiration for Joan of Arc, and mysterious whispers in the cornfield in Field of Dreams.
Kid Power
08/29/2026
It's a salute to Kid Power on this episode of The Score. Gather your friends together for adventures with The Goonies, fight for your District in The Hunger Games, and revisit Harry Potter and mates in the Order of the Phoenix. It's the power of young people to shake things up, change things - all accompanied by great music.
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