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Scoring Big with Shawn Murphy For this issue, I was lucky enough to talk to a scoring mixer who is a legend at this point. He was nominated for the Oscar for West Side Story, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and was a winner for Jurassic Park. He has 16 Emmy nominations, including one win for the XIX Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony. He also has five Grammy Awards, including one for Memoirs of a Geisha. He has worked extensively with John Williams. Here are some excerpts from our conversation. Do you want to talk a little about how you got into music? I know you studied theater design. I did. Yes, but prior to that I was a musician. I played brass. I'm a tuba player. I was a trumpet player. Playing music is great. It's a lot of fun, and it's a great education. But at a certain point in your music career, you realize that it probably isn't going to be your ultimate professional endeavor. You take it and enjoy it, and you take what knowledge you have in terms of being a musician and knowing about music, and apply it to other things, which is what I did, basically. I worked in theater sound for a long time. I put myself through college working at radio stations, and eventually found my way in live sound which, of course, goes hand in hand with theater sound. Ultimately, television and then films. So it was a progression, as with everyone. And b y D a v i d B o n d e l e v i t c h C A S M P S E