Though the film score is by Carter Burwell, the trailer — produced for Fox Searchlight Pictures by Aspect Ratio — features music from two production libraries: Scorebird supplied the light piano music for the opening, which segues to orchestral swells Elephant Music. “We were looking for emotional, beautiful music that had a build and could carry […]
Gregorian chants, riffs on David Bowie and the interstellar adventures of a boy and his drunken grandfather —that’s the gist of Rick and Morty, the Adult Swim animated show that has drawn legions of fans since its 2013 debut. The season three premiere was watched by 2.86 million on July 30, according to TV by the Numbers, […]
Composer Michael Giacchino and songwriters Alan and Marilyn Bergman are among those who will be on hand to help celebrate the 85th birthday of legendary scoremaster Lalo Schifren, Oct. 7 at the historic Alex Theatre in downtown Glendale. The special event is the first in what is to become an annual tribute by the American […]
Composers Henry Jackman and Matthew Margeson ride the top of the box office charts this week with Kingsman 2: The Golden Circle, which mined $39 million on 4,000 screens for the weekend of Sept. 22. The 20th Century Fox action spy comedy saw the musical duo re-team with director Matthew Vaughn, with whom they worked […]
Musicians are focused on 2018 as the year they get included in the state production tax credit, and California Assembly Majority Leader Ian Calderon was on hand to support that effort Sunday at the RMALA Night fundraiser in Pacific Palisades. “I believe in you. I believe in your industry. Don’t forget that you are labor […]
The first of three fall films to feature music by composer Carter Burwell is Goodbye Christopher Robin, hitting U.S. screens Oct. 13 from Fox Searchlight, which also has Burwell in the queue for the Nov. 10 quirky whodunit Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Burwell — best know for his 15 collaborations with the Coen Brothers — will also […]
Born with a condition that left her virtually deaf Andie Aviv can now hear nearly everything anyone else can, thanks to the surgical addition of a Cochlear Nucleus Implant System the 12-year-old received as an infant. Although one of Andie’s biggest advantages is sport, the technology holds obvious promise for those whose circumstances impede the experience of music. The […]
Miley Cyrus goes where no pop star has gone before, with a weeklong gig on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, which has designated Oct. 2-6 t “Miley Week” to tie-in to her new album, Younger Now, set for release Sept. 29. NBC describes the stint as an “unprecedented weeklong celebration” of the music of “friend of the […]
Audi’s “Orchestra” TV campaign, which premiered during the 69th Emmy Awards and is now playing online, consists of three spots paying homage to classic TV shows that collected the coveted gold statuette during their heyday. The commercials use the theme songs to connect the programs with the orchestral vignette, featuring instrumentalists whose renditions of the […]
Recording in an abandoned railroad water tower called “the Tank” has become all the rage, drawing musicians from as far away as New York and even Germany, writes David Kelly in a Sept. 18 piece for the Los Angeles Times entitled “Forget Carnegie Hall. Musicians flock to rural Colorado to play the Tank.” A 65-foot high rusty […]
