[Nick Zwar]

There are definitely “periods of interest” where I am more drawn to one type of music than another, but it usually doesn’t have anything to do whether it’s film music. Since film music can be anything — classical, jazz, pop, rock, electronic… it can be dramatic or ambient, atmospheric or specific — I don’t recall if I ever specifically avoided film music.

Also, I’d say that when I have certain “periods of interest”, I am more drawn towards a particular style of music, rather than being averse to any other type of music. I had phases where I was particularly drawn, let’s say, to Baroque Music, or to chamber works, or to solo piano music, so since few film scores are in that style, that meant I was listening to fewer film scores in those “phases”. For example, a few years ago I had a period where I was very much drawn to piano sonatas (or piano works), and, starting with Beethoven, I listened to sonatas by Mozart, Haydn, Brahms, Boulez, Rachmaninoff, etc.