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 […]
Jeff Beal has collected his fifth Emmy, winning composition for a series for his House of Cards score, while the third time proved a charm for Jeff Russo, who collected his first Emmy for Fargo in the limited series category tonight at the 2017 Creative Arts Emmy Awards, night two, at the Microsoft Theater. Beal […]
Rickey Minor has won the Emmy for music direction for the epic ABC special Taking The Stage: African American Music And Stories That Changed America, with rapper Common taking the trophy for music and lyrics for the song “Letter to the Free” at the 2017 Creative Arts Emmy Awards Saturday night. In an extremely competitive category, […]
The SCL Emmy Nominees Reception drew nearly 200 TV music heavyweights to a Hollywood terrace Friday on the eve of the Annual Creative Arts Emmys and at the start of a week of celebration leading up to the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards Sept. 16 at the Microsoft Theater. The event, sponsored by the Society of […]
The Television Academy announced today that the six music-specific Emmy awards categories will be presented at the 2017 Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremonies. The Creative Arts ceremonies, honoring outstanding artistic and technical achievements in television, will take place over two consecutive nights — Saturday, September 9, and Sunday, September 10 — at the Microsoft Theater in […]
Who’s got the clout when it comes to TV music? As it turns out, this year, ASCAP and BMI are almost evenly divided, with ASCAP representing 24 of the nominees in the six music categories, and BMI laying claim to 21. “We are thrilled that ASCAP has taken the lion’s share of this year’s Emmy […]
In the 1920s, a nascent radio revolution changed popular culture by offering a new way to disseminate music. In search of new styles and markets, record company executives began reaching out beyond city confines in search of new styles and markets. Traveling the mountains, prairies, rural villages and urban ghettos, this intrepid band of early A&R men discovered a wealth […]
From the Mississippi Delta to monarchical Victorian England, this year’s crop of Emmy music nominees are a diverse group who share one thing in common: outstanding work that has been recognized in the eyes of their peers. MaxTheTrax reached out to nominees across a broad range of music functions, from composers to lyricists, music […]
NBC’s The Voice, Hairspray Live! and Hulu’s The Beatles: Eight Days a Week are among the music shows packing a big Emmy presence outside the composing categories. The singing competition show was the big standout with nine nominations as it heads into its thirteenth season, while the John Waters tuner about racial tolerance in the ’60s styled seven, including technical direction for […]
Martin Phipps, Mac Quayle and Rickey Minor are the only multiple nominees in Emmy’s six dedicated music categories, with two each in a field where more than half the contenders are first-timers. Netflix leads the music race, with 10 entries in five categories, followed by PBS and FX with four each and HBO with three. Phipps earned a solo nomination […]
