Thunderscores

I wrote in a part for French horn in my film score of 'The Hunt', giving the direction 'play as from a distance'. I wanted an expressive distant sound of a horn sounding across the vales.  

The horn player never showed up.

The conductor, looking at the score, said to me "I see he's taken you literally."

Now, you could call us underwriters, we write what's often underneath the dialogue, simmering just below the surface, or even undertakers, moving a large body of sound from one place to another. At…