David Buckley’s main title theme music for The Good Fight earned CBS All Access its first Emmy nomination last year. It lost to Stranger Things, but it should get another shot this year. The piece has drawn rave reviews from fans on YouTube. The harpsichord-like notes that open the piece, joined by violins, get things off […]
Fresh Air’s Terry Gross interviews Todd Purdum about his new book, Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution. Before there was Rodgers& Hammerstein there was Rodgers & Hart. When a dissipated lyricist Lorenz Hart could no longer work, composer Richard Rodgers teamed with Oscar Hammerstein. Their first play, Oklahoma!, which opened on Broadway in 1943 and […]
Fans of the Nintendo 64 classic The Legend of Zelda can relive the magic with a musical tribute themed around the beloved videogame release Majora’s Mask. The 79-track collection of newly arranged music, Fate: A Tribute to Majora’s Mask, is from Seattle-based Materia Collective. The Legend of Zelda debuted in 1986, and the 19 titles in the franchise have sold […]
Deadpool 2 music maker Tyler Bates is set as anchor for the keynote session at the 5th Annual Production Music Conference, taking place Sept. 26-28 at the Loews Hollywood Hotel. Bates will be interviewed by Variety reporter Jon Burlingame at the Sept. 27 session focusing on the composer’s experience creating music for film, TV, and videogames. Bates’ […]
Getting inside the head of painter Pablo Picasso presented an interesting challenge for composer Lorne Balfe, who thought in terms of the “color” of instruments for the second season series score to National Geographic’s critically acclaimed series Genius. Balfe utilized flamenco guitar and the accordion to brush in both the episodic music and a reimagined theme, collaborating […]
Timed to their latest collaboration on BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee’s go-to composer Terence Blanchard talks to VICE about everything from his childhood studying piano in New Orleans and his first partnership with Lee on 1991’s Jungle Fever to the director’s love of orchestral music to complete a score. In addition to music, the VICE’s Noel Ransome […]
Musicians have better “working memory” than even bilingual speakers, according to a study published in the journal Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences and reported in Pacific Standard magazine. “Given that decreased activity in this region has been linked with cognitive deterioration, this suggests ‘musical training and bilingualism might be protective factors against […]
Jeff Russo’s Legion Season Two – Original Television Series Soundtrack will be released digitally from Lakeshore Records on May 25. Russo’s synth-accented score highlights the story of David Haller (Dan Stevens), a man who believed himself to be schizophrenic only to discover that he may actually be a powerful mutant savant. Lakeshore also released the […]
Germaine Franco’s star turn as ASCAP’s Shirley Walker Award honoree had people wanting to learn more about Shirley Walker. As it turns out, she was a trailblazing female film and television composer at a time when there were even fewer than there are now. Mentor to Hans Zimmer and Mark Watters, she had a bit […]
It was a night of art and social awareness for ASCAP members at the 33rd annual ASCAP Screen Music Awards last night, with composers John Powell and Germaine Franco taking center stage. Powell, who created the mind-blowing music for The Bourne Identity and sequels, and Franco — his protege and one of the few women composing music for […]
