Finally, after numerous flirtations and a tiff, Italian composer Ennio Morricone will officially team with director Quentin Tarantino, signing on for The Hateful Eight. The marks Morricone’s return to the Western — the genre that made him famous — in 40 years. The five-time Oscar winner’s haunting and hynotic scores vaulted him to international prominence […]
Kevin Kliesch hails from New Jersey and attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he had dual major in film scoring and music synthesis. Upon graduating, he was invited to joined the school’s staff. He moved to Los Angeles in 1996, and has since then worked as a composer and orchestrator on more than 100 […]
The PBS “Live from Lincoln Center” series presents “Danny Elfman’s Music from the Films of Tim Burton,” featuring scores from blockbuster films such as Batman, Beetlejuice, Alice in Wonderland and The Nightmare Before Christmas, among others. The program, which airs Oct. 30, was recorded with conductor John Mauceri leading the Concert Chorale of New York, […]
The new HBO series set in the world of New York’s 1970s music scene is causing a stir on the streets of metropolis, as tune boomers see haunts like the rock club Max’s Kansas City and the Sam Goody retail outlet recreated for filming. Described by HBO as “A ride through the sex- and drug-addled […]
Sharing – a beautiful word, a wondrous concept. One of the definitions of the word share from dictionary.com – To accord a share in (something) to another or others: shared her chocolate bar with a friend. File sharing is a beautiful sounding word too. To share that which you have acquired via the internet with […]
Founded in 1972, by a small group of television commercial production companies concerned with a single issue, today’s Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) has grown to represent exclusively, the interests of companies that specialize in producing commercials on various media – film, video, digital – for advertisers and agencies. AICP members account for 85 […]
“Charlie Chaplin composed his own music for City Lights (1931), Modern Times (1936) and Limelight (1952). That was the exception, and few film-makers would imitate him. He wasn’t clear at all whose job was to score the soundtracks…In the 1930s, after a few years of experimentation, scoring film soundtracks became an art in earnest thanks to […]
The American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP) Resource Guide is a handy compendium of research materials.
