Notes from the Fires: Earworm Alert! Her James Bond improvisations will stick with you … and her resilience will inspire you.

If there’s a tiny silver lining to Starr Parodi losing her home and studio in the Palisades fire, it’s that every morning she and her dog Dmitri - named for Shostakovich - take a long walk on the beach, which is now just yards from her front door in Playa Del Rey.

(left) Starr Parodi and her 1928 Steinway B, which burned in the Palisades fire. (right) Starr Parodi in the studio.

Gina Conte, Jeff Fair

So that’s where Notes from the Fires host John Rabe talked with the Gold Record-winning composer and keyboardist about her life, work, and future. And yes, about her haunting variations on Monty Norman’s iconic score for the James Bond movies. We close out today’s segment with a piece Starr wrote with her husband, Jeff Eden Fair, “Walk to the Ferry,” from the original soundtrack of “The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry.”