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I just finished Mark McKenzie's new MAX AND ME. It's the best thing I've heard in years. Definitely on par with THE GREATEST MIRACLE. "Two Crowns Vision" gave me chills. "Heaven's Welcome" literally dropped my jaw. And there are so many highlights in between. I was hoping for more Joshua Bell. He only played for three cues. His performances are excellent, of course. His violin in "A Mother's Prayer" is achingly beautiful, and his double stop playing at the end of "I Love You" (a cue title that may well feature in every one of McKenzie's scores) is fabulous. But I was hoping for him to play something slightly more virtuosic. If there's another slight issue with the score, it might be that it's too beautiful. There is a dynamic range in the music, for sure, and there are some cues with a much more tragic and dark beauty to them, but there were 3-4 cues toward the end that were so gorgeous and all in about the same range that I can imagine some listeners growing a little tired of that sound. But that's a very minor quibble, and no problem at all for me! I can't get enough of McKenzie's music when he's in this mode. This is truly excellent music. I will be very pleasantly shocked if anything else composed this year can beat it for score of the year for me.