In David John Farinella's article, "Scoring to Survive," it talks about making hit series music and how that affects a show's ratings. Farinella starts the article off by talking about composer Russ Landau and how he was chosen to right the theme song for CBS hit Survivor and how he knew that Richard was going to win the million dollars. He then talks about how Landau went about writing the theme song and all the trials and tribulations that are behind writing music. Landau first wrote 14 to 15 orchestra themes, but decided that the show needed something dramatic, serious, dangerous, and adventurous to represent it.
Farinella explains that Landau finally came up with the theme from being on a ski vacation in Mammoth, Cali
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