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.
Cure for the Winter Blues 2
2/7/2026
Edmund Stone has a refreshing selection of films that will break up those winter blues. Travel to Ireland with The Banshees of Inishirn, Follow Paddington to London, take a different look at the world differently with Everything Everywhere All at Once, and more. It's a cinematic palate cleanser to rev up your imagination this winter.
Edmund's Valentine Day Soundtrack
2/14/2026
Edmund Stone has crafted a soundtrack for this Valentine's Day, with powerful and passionate music from some of his personal favorite romantic films. Fall in love again with Romeo and Juliet, be moved by unconditional love with the Notebook, and dance to your heart's content with LaLa Land. It's a musical Valentine.
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.
Stars of Black Cinema
2/28/2026
Join Edmund Stone as he honors Black History Month with a look at contemporary Black Cinema, a rich, vital tradition of films made by, for and about Black people. From legends Sidney Poitier in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and Samuel L. Jackson's versatility in The Incredibles to Cynthia Erivo's tour-de-force singing and acting in Wicked and Idris Elba's powerful performance in Beasts of No Nation, it's a look and a listen to some of the finest actors in the world.
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