Award-winning composer James Edward Barker has signed on to score Endor Productions and BFI’s upcoming Gothic mystery-thriller Gwen, by first time feature director William McGregor. Gwen is produced by Tom Nash and Hilary Bevan Jones for Endor, Lizzie Francke (’71) for the BFI, and stars BAFTA-nominated actress Maxine Peake (Funny Cow, The Theory of Everything) alongside Eleanor Worthington-Cox (Britannia) […]
Bradley Cooper will direct and star in a biographical film about Leonard Bernstein, according to Variety, which reports Paramount Pictures and Amblin Partners will co-finance the project. The legendary conductor is now the subject of dueling biopics, with actor Jake Gyllenhaal developing a competing project that he will star in, with Cary Fukunaga set to direct. That […]
Writing lyrically that “Some of the greatest written works of our time have been inspired by music,” New York Times reporter Natalie Proulx goes on to cite Walt Whitman conceptualizing and writing “Leaves of Grass” while listening to opera, and Alice Walker, Langston Hughes, Ntozake Shange and Ralph Ellison “all moved by spirituals, jazz and blues”A […]
Katharine McPhee performs “Living in the Moment,” the theme song to Paramount Pictures’ Book Club, an ensemble comedy starring Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen, Jane Fonda, and Mary Steenburgen. McPhee was the runner-up on the fifth season of American Idol, and released her debut album on RCA Records in 2007.The tune was written by Carole Bayer Sager with Walter […]
Composer John Williams’ acceptance of an inaugural BMI award named in his honor was the high note in an evening of historic proportions as BMI celebrated 79 years of service at the 34th Annual BMI Film, TV & Visual Media Awards. The event drew about 500 attendees to the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills Wednesday […]
The introduction of the Music Modernization Act (S. 2823) in the Senate was indeed music to the record industry’s ears, raising a chorus of support. Among those to lend positive comments: Steve Bogard, Nashville Songwriters Association International President “The Music Modernization Act, Classics Act and AMP Act will together create the most comprehensive and important copyright […]
Eleven-year-old music prodigy Olivia Amiri presents the concert Prism with the National Children’s Chorus Thursday, May 17th, at UCLA’s Royce Hall. Musical selections of the evening will chant the praises of diversity from across the globe in a season finale as the National Children’s Choir prepares for its 4th International Tour to Berlin, Prague, Vienna […]
Continuing the music law reform momentum started in the House last month, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) introduced the Music Modernization Act in the Senate today. Realizing the hopes of the recording industry, the Senate bill, S.2823, was identical to that passed by a 415-0 vote in the House last month, which should greatly streamline it’s passage. […]
They went to outer space, but instead of finding a shooting star, they found… a circus tent. That’s how the world welcomed Killer Klowns From Outer Space, a 1988 cult classic that is getting high-class treatment for its 30th anniversary, with a live-to-picture performance of composer John Massari’s score by the Hollywood Chamber Orchestra. The film, […]
Film and television score composer Germaine Franco will receive the prestigious ASCAP Shirley Walker Award at the 33rd annual ASCAP Screen Music Awards in Los Angeles on May 23. The Shirley Walker Award honors those whose achievements have contributed to the diversity of film and television music. Franco is the first Latina composer invited to […]
