Shaiman started his career as a theatre/cabaret musical director. He started working at SNL as an arranger/writer and also became vocal arranger for Bette Midler, eventually becoming her musical director and co-producer of many of her recordings, including "The Wind Beneath My Wings" and "From a Distance." He helped create the material for her performance on the penultimate "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson". His work with both Bette Midler and Billy Crystal led to his involvement on their films. His film credits include "Broadcast News", "Beaches", "When Harry Met Sally...", "City Slickers", "The Addams Family", "Sister Act", "Sleepless in Seattle", "A Few Good Men", "The American President", "The First Wives Club", "George of the Jungle", "In & Out", "Patch Adams", "", "", "Hairspray", "Flipped", "Mary Poppins Returns" and HBO's "From the Earth to the Moon" and "61*".
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Marc Shaiman | Career
Numerous, including "Broadcast News", "Beaches", "When Harry Met Sally...", etc. "Hairspray" Hairspray, When Harry Met Sally, We Are in Love, Smash to name a few. "Broadcast News", "Beaches", "When Harry Met Sally...", "City Slickers", "The Addams Family", "Sister Act" and others
what is the new mary poppins movie rated
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On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 79% based on 371 reviews, with an average rating of 7.28/10.
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when was this film released?
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2018
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who directed it?
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Rob Marshall
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what is the genre of this motion picture?
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Musical fantasy film
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what is this motion picture all about?
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Set in London during the Great Depression, some twenty-five years after the events of the original film, the film sees Mary Poppins, the former nanny of Jane and Michael Banks, return to them in the wake of the death of Michael's wife.
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which actress played the role of the protagonist?
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Emily Blunt
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how were the protagonist's nature and personality depicted in the film?
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where were the scenes filmed at?
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Shepperton Studios in Surrey, England
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is there someone who owns the above studios?
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Yes, the Pinewood Studios Group
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who composed that film's music score?
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Marc Shaiman
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from where did he study music?
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is he an activist?
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To protest the passage of California Proposition 8 in November 2008, he wrote a satiric mini-musical called "Prop 8 — The Musical."
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apart from this film, what other films/tv shows has he composed music for?
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In 2008, a controversy erupted nationwide when California Musical Theatre's then artistic director resigned over the revelation of his personal donation of $1000 to a political campaign to support California proposition 8, which was an amendment to change the California Constitution to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry in California. After the amendment was passed, donor information became public. Shaiman and other Broadway artists who had previously worked with the director became critical and called for a boycott of the theatre by all gay artists and performers, ending in the director's resignation days later. To protest the passage of California Proposition 8 in November 2008, Shaiman wrote a satiric mini-musical called "Prop 8 — The Musical." The 3-minute video was distributed on the internet at FunnyOrDie.com, beginning on December 3, 2008.
Marc Shaiman | Activism
Marc Shaiman (; born October 22, 1959) is an American composer and lyricist for films, television, and theatre, best known for his collaborations with lyricist and director Scott Wittman. He wrote the music and co-wrote the lyrics for the Broadway musical version of the John Waters film "Hairspray". He has won a Grammy, an Emmy and a Tony, and been nominated for seven Oscars.
Marc Shaiman | Introduction
To protest the passage of Proposition 8, musical theatre composer Marc Shaiman wrote a satiric mini-musical called "Prop 8 — The Musical". The three-minute video was distributed on the internet at FunnyOrDie.com. The cast includes Jack Black (who plays Jesus), Nicole Parker, Neil Patrick Harris, John C. Reilly, Allison Janney, Andy Richter, Maya Rudolph, Margaret Cho, Rashida Jones, Kathy Najimy, Sarah Chalke, Jennifer Lewis, John Hill and other celebrities. It was directed by Adam Shankman. The video satirizes Christian churches that selectively pick and choose biblical doctrines to follow. It received 1.2 million internet hits in its first day, won the 2009 Webby Award category Comedy: Individual Short or Episode, and won a GLAAD media award.
2008 California Proposition 8 | Media
He is the first recipient of the Film & TV Music Award for Best Score for a Comedy Feature Film.
Marc Shaiman | Career
He has directed several shorts for Funny or Die, including "Prop 8, The Musical" starring Jack Black and written by composer Marc Shaiman. According to "TIME" magazine, "Prop 8, The Musical" was Marc Shaiman's attempt to pick apart the anti-gay marriage lobby's logic. Lending support to the cause were actors Jack Black, John C. Reilly, Maya Rudolph, Craig Robinson, Neil Patrick Harris and Allison Janney.
Adam Shankman | Directing career
Zuckerman composed the music to playwright Juli Crockett's theatre pieces "[or, the whale]", a spoken word opera which debuted in Los Angeles in 2001, and "Orpheus Crawling", an experimental opera which premiered in 2007 at the New Original Works (NOW) Fest at REDCAT.
Jeremy Zuckerman | Theatre
Besides "Bajo California: El Límite del Tiempo", he also wrote the score for About the Living (2001), premiered in 2002 at the AFI Festival in L.A., for the documentary Der umgekehrte Blick, and for Two Embraces, winner of the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.
Antonio Fernandez Ros | Music for films
Zigman has composed both chamber and full orchestral works on commission, including a viola sonata; a 1994 tone poem "Rabin: An Orchestral Work in Five Movements" (premiered at Los Angeles' Westside Pavillion on December 25, 1997, repeated in Spring 1999 by the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony under the direction of Noreen Green in memory of Yitzhak Rabin, and recorded live on the Bernard Milken Jewish Community Campus in March 1999); "Martyrology: A Tribute to Those Who Have Died in the Face of Persecution"; "Impressions", a 2004 suite for wind ensemble (premiered by Richard Todd and the USC Symphony Orchestra); "Vis Vitae" (mixed octet, featured at the historic Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church on Rodeo Drive as part of the "Voices of Hollywood" concert at the Third Annual Beverly Hills International Music Festival in 2006 and in Zigman's score for "Flash of Genius"; "No Strings Attached", a 2007 horn sextet for Brian O’ Connor (1951-2016) at UCLA; and a "Rhapsody for Cello and Piano" (premiered/recorded in 2015 by Andrew Shulman and Robert Thies).
Aaron Zigman | Concert music
On December 17, 2013, it was announced that Marc Shaiman had composed the music for the film.
And So It Goes (film) | Music
One of the few Los Angeles-born composers, Cliff Eidelman (born 1964) began his formal musical training at the age of 8, studying the violin. A few years later he switched to guitar as his main instrument and began performing and writing songs for his band, playing at local Los Angeles clubs before age 14. He studied Jazz guitar at the Guitar Institute of Technology before attending college and formally studying composition and conducting. Eidelman has been a long time resident in Santa Monica where he has a music composing/recording studio. Eidelman broke into film scoring at the age of 22 when a performance recording of one of the two concert music commissions, the ballet "Once Upon a Ruler" and "Celebration Symphony Overture" he composed while a student Santa Monica City College reached director Monica Teuber.
Cliff Eidelman | Biography
Fruchtman holds music history appointments at California State University, Long Beach and California Lutheran University. Fruchtman composed scores for the first two feature films directed by Amber Benson, (best known from her role as Tara Maclay on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"). "Chance" was the winner of the Audience Choice Award at the Sidewalk Film Festival and was followed by "Lovers, Liars & Lunatics". Following their film collaborations, Fruchtman produced and arranged Benson’s vocal debut on the album "You Are Light". Fruchtman was commissioned to write "The Journey", a four-movement piece for narrator, chorus, and orchestra. This epic piece, written expressly for the New York City Master Chorale, tells the historic tale of settlers migrating across the Oregon Trail to the Pacific Ocean.
Aaron Fruchtman | Biography and works
He frequently works on films by Billy Crystal and Rob Reiner. He also appeared in many of these films. Shaiman has earned seven Academy Award nominations, a Tony Award and a Grammy Award for his work on the musical "Hairspray", and an Emmy Award for co-writing Billy Crystal's Academy Award performances. He has also been Grammy-nominated for his arrangements for Harry Connick Jr.'s recordings "When Harry Met Sally..." and "We Are in Love" as well as "Hairspray" and "Smash" and Emmy-nominated for his work on "Saturday Night Live" and "Smash". In 2002, he was honored with the "Outstanding Achievement in Music-In-Film" award at The Hollywood Film Festival, and in 2007 he was honored with ASCAP's Henry Mancini Award in recognition of his outstanding achievements and contributions to the music of film and television.
Marc Shaiman | Career
A native of Los Angeles, Wyman studied composition, music history, and film scoring at the University of Southern California. His principal instructors included Ingolf Dahl and David Raksin. After graduate studies and work with electronic music pioneer, Paul Beaver, Wyman began composing for movies by joining producer-director John Carpenter to create the music for "Assault on Precinct 13, The Fog," and "Halloween". As a co-founder of the recording studio, Sound Arts, Wyman contributed to numerous soundtracks as electronic orchestrator and sound designer, including "Apocalypse Now, Fade to Black," and the stage musical "Baby". He has composed music for the Ice Capades, commercials, and contributed to numerous hit recordings by Earth, Wind & Fire, Donna Summer, Barbra Streisand, Black Sabbath, Devo, and many others.
Dan Wyman | Life & career
The rest of the 90s were dedicated to theater music, TV work (Musical Director of "Ad Eser", a weekly talk show with Merav Michaeli, music for Meni Peer's TV show, and many others). In 1999 he wrote the music for "Pgisha Leiyn Kets", a special CD dedicated to the poetry of Nathan Alterman, read by one Israel's leading actors Yossi Banai. That same year he composed Joseph Cedar's feature film "Time of Favor". It was a first in a series of more than 120 movie scores (TV dramas and documentaries included)he composed from 2000 on. On August 2018 the Tel Aviv, Jerusalem & Haifa Sinematheques held a special tribute to his work for films and television.
Jonathan Bar Giora | Biography
A native of Southern California, Roy Zimmerman wrote a series of satirical musical reviews in the 1980s that were produced by the San Jose Repertory Theatre, including "YUP!" (1984), "UP the YUP" (1985), and "YUP It UP!" (1986). The musicals parodied the excesses of the evolving yuppie culture in Silicon Valley. The songs included "Teen-age Computer Tycoon", "The Bay Area Sprawl", and "I Want to Be in a Pepsi Commercial," which many Bay Area professionals have remembered since their young adult years. Zimmerman founded the Southern California satirical folk quartet, The Foremen. It performed at the national conventions of both major American political parties in 1996.
Roy Zimmerman (satirist) | Biography
Sean grew up in Santa Barbara, California, where he attended the Brooks Institute Film School. There he began studying film composing, by contributing music to dozens of student movies. Sean debuted as a composer when he was a teenager for the action film "Scorpion".
Sean Murray (composer) | Biography
).His most recent Hollywood credits are the top 5 worldwide hit movie "Shall We Dance?" starring Jennifer Lopez, Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon for Miramax, for which he won the ASCAP Film Award; the music for the CBS movie "Suburban Madness" with Sela Ward, and the controversial Emmy nominated miniseries, "The Reagans" starring Judy Davis and James Brolin. In the UK he scored "Mr Harvey Lights a Candle" for BBC Films, and the BAFTA nominated "The Queen’s Sister" for Channel 4.
John Altman (composer) | Film score composing
Shaiman started his career as a theatre/cabaret musical director. He started working at SNL as an arranger/writer and also became vocal arranger for Bette Midler, eventually becoming her musical director and co-producer of many of her recordings, including "The Wind Beneath My Wings" and "From a Distance." He helped create the material for her performance on the penultimate "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson". His work with both Bette Midler and Billy Crystal led to his involvement on their films. His film credits include "Broadcast News", "Beaches", "When Harry Met Sally...", "City Slickers", "The Addams Family", "Sister Act", "Sleepless in Seattle", "A Few Good Men", "The American President", "The First Wives Club", "George of the Jungle", "In & Out", "Patch Adams", "", "", "Hairspray", "Flipped", "Mary Poppins Returns" and HBO's "From the Earth to the Moon" and "61*".
Marc Shaiman | Career
His vocal music includes a setting of "Shir L'Shalom" (also recorded live on the Bernard Milken Jewish Community Campus in March 1999); two "Ave Maria" vocalises (one written with bassist Abraham Laboriel, Sr., composed as the main title song for the film "Virgin of Juarez" and one written for the main title song of the film "John Q", featuring Joshua Bell on violin); an Emmy Award-winning setting of the Hebrew prayer for peace"Sim Shalom" (from the Showtime TV film "Crown Heights", with Alex Brown); and an Italian aria with chorus ("La Donna in Viola," setting a translation of Ntozake Shange's poem “Pyramid”, for 3 soprano soloists and SSAAT choir, also featuring Joshua Bell) featured in the film "For Colored Girls" (2009-2010).
Aaron Zigman | Concert music
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Maurice Goldman | Compositions
He also composed the 1986 film "La Película del Rey" and conducted the score for Sidney Lumet's 1990 film, "Q & A".
Carlos Franzetti | Music career
The following list consists of select films for which Danny Elfman composed the score and/or songs.
List of compositions by Danny Elfman | Film scores
He has composed music for several films and documentaries including the Emmy Winning documentary Fallujah: Art, Healing and PTSD and feature films 12 Hour Shift and You Cannot Kill David Arquette. He has composed music for the marketing campaign of several Paramount Pictures films including Arrival and 10 Cloverfield Lane. His music has been featured on various television programs on NBC, FX and more.
Matt Glass | Music
It was written and produced in just a few days. The cast includes Jack Black (who plays Jesus), Neil Patrick Harris, John C. Reilly, Allison Janney, Andy Richter, Maya Rudolph, Margaret Cho, and Rashida Jones. Shaiman plays the piano and appears briefly in the video. It received 1.2 million internet hits in its first day. † = Emmy nominee
Marc Shaiman | Activism
He has composed music for film, writing more than 15 film scores, including:
Shlomo Gronich | Music for film
On November 12, Eckern resigned from California Musical Theatre. Executive producer of the CMT Richard Lewis stated that Eckern was not forced to resign but did so of his own accord. Richard Raddon, Director of the Los Angeles Film Festival, also resigned due to boycotts by the gay community. Protests in California were marred by racial incidents. Due to their support of Proposition 8, reported as high as 70 percent, some African Americans attending events were allegedly subjected to racial epithets and felt threatened. California Assembly Speaker Karen Bass stated she was disturbed by the treatment of African Americans in the aftermath of the passage of the proposition.
2008 California Proposition 8 | Boycotts
Wittman was raised in Nanuet, New York, graduated from Nanuet Senior High School in 1972 and attended Emerson College in Boston for two years before leaving to pursue a career in musical theatre in New York City. While directing a show for a Greenwich Village club he met Marc Shaiman, and the two became collaborators and professional partners. While Shaiman wrote for television shows, including "Saturday Night Live", Wittman directed concerts for such artists as Bette Midler, Christine Ebersole, Raquel Welch, Dame Edna Everage, and Lypsinka, among others. In 2002, Shaiman and Wittman wrote the music and lyrics for the musical "Hairspray", which won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics, the Tony Award for Best Original Score, and a Grammy Award.
Scott Wittman | Life and career
In the film and TV industry, Farber has been working with companies such as NBC (TV series "Starting Over" and "Passions"), Showtime ("In A Class Of His Own", "Call Me Sirr", and WB ("Superman & Batman"), as well as writing music for independent features and other projects. She won the Telly Award in 1998 for best score for the docu-drama series "California 2000" and her work can also be heard at the Museum of Sacramento, as part of the Museum's permanent exhibition. Her orchestral score for "When Nietzsche Wept", was released October 2008, and she has recently completed the score for "Folie a Deux".
Sharon Farber | Film and television music
His music tends toward songs or soundtracks. Recent recordings are "North" and "The Red Circle Line", released by Arctos Records. In 2009 a theatrical musical, "South", was commissioned by Dixon Place in New York City. Recent film scores include "The Bentfootes", directed by Kriota Willberg and "". Past music projects include the bands "Orson Welk", "Some Ambulants" and "The Secret Sons Of The Pope". He has composed music for numerous theatrical productions at The Western Stage in Salinas, California, including the 1989 production of "East of Eden".
Carmen Borgia | Music
Schyman graduated from the University of Southern California in 1978 with a degree in music composition. He intended to compose music for film and television, going so far as to present two student film scores at his senior recital, which was an unconventional move at the time. Upon graduation, through one of his friends' father, the actor Dennis Weaver, he was invited to watch a recording session for the music of a television show Weaver was working in. There, he met a ghost composer for the show, who in turn told him about a job composing for Lutheran television which he applied for and was hired.
Garry Schyman | Early life
Blitzstein also composed music for films, such as "Surf and Seaweed" (1931) and "The Spanish Earth" (1937), and he contributed two songs to the original 1960 production of Hellman's play "Toys in the Attic".
Marc Blitzstein | Introduction
Kopelman's project told the story of a Palestinian/Israeli Arab who is trying to become recognised in the Israeli culture, and all the ethnic and racial issues that it encompasses. In 2007 he composed, recorded and mixed music for theatre "Six Actors in Search of a Pilot". A production that involved Israeli Arabs and Jews that focused on the need for mutuality and not conflict. They performed throughout Israel in the Arab and Jewish communities and played on Broadway in Manhattan, NY.
Mark Smulian | Composer and record producer
Serra has composed the scores for the following films:
Éric Serra | Film scores
In 2010, Spelman served as music supervisor for Vidal Sassoon The Movie, a feature-length documentary about revolutionary hairstylist Vidal Sassoon. The soundtrack features music by American Music Club's Mark Eitzel (who contributed a cover of the Ira Gershwin song 'S Wonderful), post-rock chamber ensembles Clogs (featuring Padma Newsome and Bryce Dessner of The National), Redhooker, and Arcade Fire side project Bell Orchestre. The film had its premiere at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival. Spelman has commissioned scores by Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, James Blackshaw, Gyan Riley, David Bromberg, Steve Kimock, Alex de Grassi, and Chicha Libra, for classic silent films by Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harry Everett Smith, Yasujirō Ozu, Wu Yonggang, and Georges Méliès.
David Spelman | Film projects
“I was hooked and loved the freedom to put together all my talents, from the dramatic writing of theater, to the melodic and rhythmic world of songs, to the esoteric world of contemporary classical music. It just suddenly all came together at that moment.” One assignment led to another. Writing the title music for "California Reich", a 1975 documentary for Walter Parkes, led him to score a low-budget exploitation film called "The Great Texas Dynamite Chase" (1976), which began his long relationship with Michael Pressman, for whom he would score five more pictures through the 1990s. Meanwhile, he started studying film music and sought out the wisdom of Fred Steiner, Ernest Gold, and Elmer Bernstein.
Craig Safan | Career
The passage of Proposition 8 led to opponents responding by publicly shaming its supporters as bigots and boycotting supporters' businesses and employers. On November 7, 2008, a blogger revealed that Scott Eckern, then Artistic Director of California Musical Theatre, had made a personal donation of $1,000 to the "Yes on 8" campaign. All campaign contributions of $1,000 or more required a name, home and occupation be listed. On November 10, gay artists condemned Eckern and called for a boycott of California Musical Theatre. On November 11, Eckern issued an apology on the online site "Playbill" stating that a similar donation had been made to a human rights organization that includes gay rights as one of its causes.
2008 California Proposition 8 | Boycotts
Guiot participated as a musician, he did not compose the music.
Raymond Guiot | Original Film Scores
Jeff Atmajian (born 1960 in Fresno, California) is an arranger and orchestrator for films. His steady clientele are composers such as James Newton Howard, Marc Shaiman, Rachel Portman, Mark Watters, John Debney and Gabriel Yared. In the past two years Jeff has been pursuing a more high-profile composing career. Recently he scored the 90-minute documentary about the Armenian Genocide called "Screamers".
Jeff Atmajian | Introduction
Later, he moved to Los Angeles to work in the film industry. He wrote the music for over 50 feature films, including the western "Nate and the Colonel", Stephen King's "Sometimes They Come Back", the family film "Mr. Atlas", and the crime drama "One False Move". His score for One False Move was nominated for "Best Score" by the IFC Independent Spirit Awards.
Terry Plumeri | Career
He composed the music for the Kennedy Center Honors in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2019 which airs every year on CBS. In 2020, Calandra composed three nights of the music for the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
Peter Calandra | Television
Born in Munich, Germany, Streitenfeld relocated to Los Angeles at age 19 and initially assisted film composer Hans Zimmer. Director Ridley Scott offered Streitenfeld his first composing job when he asked him to write the score for "A Good Year" (2006). Streitenfeld has written five film scores for Scott, including the BAFTA nominated score for "American Gangster" (2007), for which he won the "Discovery of the Year" Award at the World Soundtrack Awards, the sci-fi adventure "Prometheus" (2012) and the action adventure "Robin Hood" (2010). He has also been recognized for his work with three ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards and two International Film Music Critics Association award nominations.
Marc Streitenfeld | Life and career
Craig Safan (born December 17, 1948 in Los Angeles, California) is an American composer for film and television, whose biggest scores include "The Last Starfighter", "Mr. Wrong", "Stand and Deliver", "Fade to Black", "Major Payne", "", and music to the TV series "Cheers", for which he won numerous ASCAP awards. His style consisted of often improvising as a form of composition that allowed him to quickly express himself.
Craig Safan | Introduction
He began his film-scoring career in Paris composing music for television and documentaries. He has worked with directors and writers such as Joël Santoni, Les Héroïques, and Jean Curtelin, La Marseillaise, and actors Michel Galabru, Stéphane Audran, Guy Marchand, Mort Schuman and Caroline Cellier. Moving to Los Angeles he composed music for the popular television series Falcon Crest as well as other series such as Monsters, Yellowthread Street (including the main title), Café Americain (including the main title), The New Adventures of Robin Hood (including the main title) and the award-winning cult series, .
Roger Bellon | Career
Mancina has worked primarily as a composer for Hollywood soundtracks, such as his collaboration with Trevor Rabin on the soundtrack for "Con Air". He arranged many of the songs behind Disney's "The Lion King" (while Hans Zimmer wrote the orchestral score with Nick Glennie-Smith and Lebo M. for the African chants) including the Broadway musical. He composed the score for the thriller "Twister" (1996) and the action films "Speed" (1994) and "Bad Boys" (1995). Mancina co-wrote several songs for Hanna-Barbera's 1990 animated film "". Mancina collaborated with John Van Tongeren to write the theme to the 1995 revival of "The Outer Limits".
Mark Mancina | Career
In 1996, Adelman composed for the 3rd season of Comedy Central's Viva Variety created by Michael Ian Black, Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon. His job involved composing & producing songs for guest stars to perform and/or sing including Ben Stiller, Shelley Long, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Carmen Electra, Whoopi Goldberg, Martha Stewart, David Cassidy, Buster Poindexter, Bobcat Goldthwait, Robin Leach, Abe Vigoda, Sandra Bernhard, and Erik Estrada. Jeremy collaborated with tomandandy on various film projects such as Fearless starring Jeff Bridges, Waking the Dead starring Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly & Arlington Road starring Tim Robbins.
Jeremy Adelman (composer) | Composing
Hendler was an accomplished musician and concert-level jazz trumpet player. He composed the original musical score for the acclaimed 1973 television series "The Ascent of Man" by Jacob Bronowski.
Sheldon Saul Hendler | Music
He also composed music for the movies "For Pete's Sake" and "The Love Machine", sung by Barbra Streisand and Dionne Warwick, respectively, and for a 1982 documentary, "The Killing of America", as well as a song for the movie "Savage Streets". In 1980 he dubbed a voice and co-wrote the musical score (with W. Michael Lewis) for the American version of the Japanese movie "Shogun Assassin". Lindsay made some appearances in 1985 in conjunction with the centennial of the Statue of Liberty, the Legends for Liberty tour (backed by the sixties jazz/rock band Spirit, and began to tour on his own again.
Mark Lindsay | After the Raiders
In 1993 Warren was hired to compose music for the film "". Although he intended to return to Nashville, job offers compelled him to remain in Los Angeles. He has composed and conducted orchestral scores for film and television; written, produced, and arranged songs for films and for Ron Fair, David Foster, and Quincy Jones; and has performed and recorded as a musician. He collaborated with Jeff Marx on "You Have More Friends Than You Know" for the It Gets Better organization. The song appeared on the television program "Glee" on April 18, 2013.
Mervyn Warren | Film and music career in Los Angeles
In 2011 Dom composed and produced the soundtrack for the Australian film "The Sleeping Warrior". (Source: Imdb ) which treats a philosophical-political issue and was directed by the Indian filmmaker Chayan Sarkar. In 2012 he composed and produced the soundtrack for the American film "Solid State" (source: Imdb ) starring Vivica A. Fox.
Dom Capuano | Film scoring and Hollywood
As a composer, Chap was commissioned to score four silent films for New York City’s noted avant-garde film event, Cinema 16. She also performed original songs and incidental music for the theatrical piece File:Under, a series of short plays from award winning playwright, Bekah Brunstetter produced by the theatrical company SUPERWOLF. She regularly scores acts and is a featured performer with the infamous Bindlestiff Family Cirkus. Her song "Never Been a Bad Girl" was featured in the 2010 Sundance selection documentary, Too Much Pussy!
Sabrina Chap | Composer
In 2003, upon moving to Los Angeles, he began composing for television and movies. His first endeavor was "Lost Legends of the We"st, a 13-episode folk history of the American West that was nominated for two Emmy Awards. In 2006, he researched, composed, and orchestrated original and historic music for the documentary "Welcome Back Riders".
Robert Cutietta | Composer
In addition to his writing, directing, and editing, Winans also composes original music for film. Winans composed the musical score for "Ink" (2009), and his song, "The City Surf" from "Ink" was used in the climactic scene of the Liam Neeson film, "The Grey," in conjunction with a score composed by "Marc Streitenfeld." In Winans latest feature film, "The Frame" (2014), Winans again composed the score.
Jamin Winans | Musical composition
He composed the original music for the National Touring Show, "I Love Lucy Live on Stage", which ran from 2012 to 2016.
Peitor Angell | THEATER
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Jonathan Goldstein (composer) | Musical works
Misraki composed intermittently throughout the last two decades of his life. He composed his last score at age 85; by this point he had been working almost exclusively in television for several years. He died of natural causes at age 90 in Paris.
Paul Misraki | Biography and film career
Jeff Danos has contributed original music to motion picture soundtracks, including the cult film "Sleeping Pills" and the short film "Refraction".
Testube | Film composing
While not enamoured of the ideology behind the creation of a national musical style, Lavry found himself swept up by this tide. "I never attempted consciously to compose in the Israeli style," he wrote in his autobiography. "I didn’t try, upon arriving in Israel, to impose upon myself a specific conception. Yet, as soon as I became encompassed with the influence of the country, when I found myself to be an integral part of Israel, when I mastered the Hebrew language — in the most natural way — I began composing in that style which I write till today."
Marc Lavry | Music
Hidary composed the score for the documentary called REM about architect Rem Koolhaas which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2016.
Murray Hidary | Music career
During this time, he also wrote the score to the film "The Last Days of Chez Nous" and for television shows "Phoenix", "Janus" and "Fast Forward".
Paul Grabowsky | 1980s
In 2017 he composed the score for the independent film "Last Laugh" written by John Godber. His musical "GROWL!" with Tim Knapman is being premiered by the NYMT (National Youth Music Theatre) after development workshops in 2018. Their musical "DANNY HERO" was commissioned by the Core Theatre Corby in England and ran in 2016.
Laurence Mark Wythe | Introduction
In May 1984, Feldman collaborated with Steve LeGrand of the band Times Beach to compose and perform the score to Sam Shephard's "The Tooth of Crime" in an acclaimed production at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
Eric Drew Feldman | Introduction
He has mostly composed music for Sun TV serials.
D. Imman | Television
Marc Shaiman's score was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score. The film was also nominated for two Golden Globe Awards, for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (Robin Williams).
Patch Adams (film) | Awards
Thomas Newman composed the largely minimalist film score.
Citizen Cohn | Score
Marc Streitenfeld (born 1974) is a German composer of film scores. He has frequently collaborated with director Ridley Scott. Streitenfeld has composed the music for many high-profile Hollywood features as well as critically acclaimed independent films, including "American Gangster, Body of Lies, The Grey, Prometheus, Poltergeist" and "All I See Is You".
Marc Streitenfeld | Introduction
In 2016 he composed the soundtrack to the Adler Planetarium's sky show "Planet Nine".
Benn Jordan | Composing for television and film
Morrow has created feature film soundtracks for Frances Thompson’s NASA Moonwalk One, Ken Russell’s Altered States and Eleanor Antin's Man Without A World. He designed music and sound for the 13 parts of Time-Life's "America" series. His video "Paul's Story: A Sami in New York," premiered at The Margaret Mead Film Festival, December 1989. In 2007 he provided score and sound design for Jean-Jacques Lebel’s film "Les Avatars du Venus."
Charlie Morrow | Film, television and soundtracks
In addition to fully notated compositions, Grasse has collaborated with Los Angeles-based ensembles on structured improvisations and site-specific pieces as a composer and electric guitarist since the late 1990s. Grasse's four-hour-long piece "13 + 7 + one" (2006) for multiple ensembles was commissioned for the environs of the Frank Gehry-designed Edgemar complex in Santa Monica, California, where it was performed in 2006. The same year, his site-specific work "Curfew" for octet, covering four city blocks of the Long Beach Arts District, was performed for that city's Soundwalk festival. In 2003, the Los Angeles Times' critic Victoria Looseleaf reviewed his Skirball Cultural Center Siteworks electronic music collaboration with choreographer Parijat Desai: "Making felicitous use of the Mark Taper Courtyard in the site-specific series, choreographer Parijat Desai, in collaboration with Liam Clancy, Iddrisu Saaka and Denise Uyehara, performed “Water, Tree, Stone,” an elegiac take on the notion of peace.
Jonathon Grasse | Composition
He composed music for more than 20 theatre shows, including –
Shlomo Gronich | Music for theatre
Over a lengthy career, he created musical arrangements for more than 50 artists and entertainers including Barbra Streisand, Bob Hope, Liza Minnelli and Olivia Newton-John.
Richard Hayman | Introduction
In 2010, he composed the music for the movie "London Boulevard", starring Colin Farrell, Ray Winstone and Keira Knightley.
Serge Pizzorno | Other work
Evren began violin lessons in grade school and took music theory, piano, and composition lessons at the New England Conservatory extension school at 11 years old. He graduated from Brandeis University in 1993, where he studied with Eric Chasalow and received an M.A. at Sussex University, where he studied with Michael Finnissy. Evren wrote the soundtrack to "Beyond Belief" (2007), a film that follows two widows of the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center in New York City. He has worked with many New York City based choreographers, including Ben Munisteri, Doug Elkins, and Murray Spalding, for whom he is currently composer-in-residence.
Evren Celimli | Biography
I felt that I landed where I belong and that I found a place worth fighting for. I felt that the country inspired me as a composer and that here I wrote my best compositions." He became resident composer of the Ohel Theater in Tel Aviv in 1941, and also served as conductor of the Palestine Folk Opera. There he composed the first Hebrew-language opera "Dan the Guard".
Marc Lavry | Biography
(The music is his APM cue "Fight! Fight! Fight! (a)"). He died of cancer in a nursing home in Cathedral City near Palm Springs, California.
Will Schaefer | Composer and arranger
Civange has also composed and produced music or supervised soundtracks for movies, theatre productions and art installations.
Julien Civange | Other artistic contributions
Returning to Los Angeles in 1985, he worked extensively in film soundtracks (including with Lalo Schifrin and Ira Newborn) and as a studio musician.
Stu Goldberg | Introduction
Currently his newest work 'Poster Boy' (2016) is being done at Williamstown theater festival in Williamstown MA. Carnelia's songs were heard with the work of other writers in the Stephen Schwartz conceptual revue "Working" (1978). From there he wrote full scores, both lyrics and music, for the short-lived Broadway musical "Is there life after high school?" (1982), which is still performed in stock, amateur, and regional theatres. He composed lyrics and music for "Three Postcards", with a book by Craig Lucas, which was staged off-Broadway by Playwrights Horizons in 1987 and revived by Circle Rep in 1994.
Craig Carnelia | Biography
His compositions include the musical score for "Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy", a film co-written by Quincy Newell of Codeblack Entertainment starring Steve Harvey, Eddie Murphy and Chris Rock ; and his composition, "Education," was featured as the theme song for the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) Telethon. His contribution as musical director include MTV's Super Bowl Jams Hosted by Busta Rhymes, and The Ladies of Jazz of New Orleans.
Ronald &quot;Ron&quot; Jones | Career/Studio Musician
He has composed music for the feature films "Beauty Shop", "Miami Vice," "American Hustle." and "Triple 9". Batson is also the writer of the graphic novel series "Loaded." He is developing the music for the series with Dr. Dre.
Mark Batson | Career
Grun composed the music for over 30 musicals, including:
Bernard Grun | Music
In the mid-1990s, Beal relocated to Los Angeles. His first critical notice came in 2001, for his "hypnotic combination of minimalist rhythmic drive and Americana" score to Ed Harris' directorial debut, "Pollock". He has since been nominated for nineteen primetime Emmy Awards, and has won five, His first statue was awarded in 2003 for his main theme to the USA Network detective series "Monk". Other Emmy nominations include HBO's evocative Depression era series, "Carnivàle" and epic drama "Rome", as well as four nominations and two wins for Netflix's "House of Cards". Beal is noted for composing most of his music at his home, without assistants or orchestrators, playing most of the instruments himself.
Jeff Beal | Film and television composing
In the United States, he became a television producer, founding Saban Entertainment in 1988. During that time, Haim Saban and partner Shuki Levy became known for soundtrack compositions for children's television programs of the 1980s. Although Levy and Saban composed for their own properties (such as "Kidd Video" and "Maple Town"), they scored for other production companies as well (such as "Inspector Gadget", "The Mysterious Cities of Gold", "M.A.S.K.", "Dinosaucers", "Dragon Quest", "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe", "", and "Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors"). In 1998, "The Hollywood Reporter" reported that he did not actually compose all the music (totalling 3,700 works in 2008) he is credited for; ten composers threatened to sue and Saban settled out of court.
Haim Saban | Saban Entertainment
Cassandra Clare reported in August 2012 that Yared was tapped to compose the score for "". However, he was eventually replaced on the project by Atli Örvarsson.
Gabriel Yared | Film scores
Pech has produced, directed and performed in three separate programs of original creations for The Florence Gould Theater at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor's Summer Arts Series, The Neptune Society at the Columbarium of San Francisco, and the California Institute of the Arts Summer Program (Valencia). He earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He has written seven musical scores, including a three-movement piano suite, a song cycle for 16 a capella voices, and various chamber works. He has choreographed and performed in numerous musicals around the San Francisco Bay Area (such as Mountain Play's "Oklahoma!", which garnered him the Bay Area Theater Critics' Circle Awards for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical as Will Parker and Best Choreography, 1992).
Lawrence Pech | Other associations
In 1956, Amram was hired by producer Joseph Papp to compose scores for the New York Shakespeare Festival. Over the years, Amram composed scores for twenty-five of Papp's productions, including a number of Shakespeare in the Park presentations. In 1961 he served as guest composer in residence for the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont. In 1957, Amram, along with Jack Kerouac and poets Howard Hart and Philip Lamantia, staged one of the first poetry readings with jazz at the Brata Art Gallery on East 10th Street, in New York.
David Amram | Music projects
Between 1956 and 1994, Anton Garcia Abril created more than 150 compositions for movies and television. He has provided sound tracks for the films: He also created the sound tracks of the television series:
Antón García Abril | Music for films and television
the Snowman 3D" (2002). Television shows for which he wrote music include "Sex and the City", "The Wonder Years", and "The New Batman Adventures". He also arranged music for such recording artists as Kenny G and The Irish Tenors.
Harvey Cohen | Career
Premièred in June 2009, was his "About Time: Voices" at the San Francisco Public Library, performed by the Cornelius Cardew Choir. In 2012 "Vox Populi" was performed for the Totnes Festival and on Soundart Radio. In 2014 a new composition for string players and the marble run at the Bovey Tracey House or Marbles was premiered.
Sam Richards (writer) | Avant garde and jazz
Growing up in Alameda County, Evans spent much of his childhood in Oakland and San Leandro. From an early age he would play his family’s pots and pans as if they were drums, his musical tendencies eventually prompted his parents to purchase a Casio SK-8 keyboard. While a child, Evans saw Return of the Jedi during its theatrical release. He cites the scene in which Admiral Ackbar says, “It’s a trap!” as the moment he decided to become a composer. Evans's composing career began after a chance encounter with artist and animator Ciro Nieli while waiting in line for at Mann’s Chinese theater, Evans was offered an opportunity to compose the score for "Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!." This was his first professional job as a composer.
Sebastian Evans (composer) | Biography
Muir", "Cape Fear", "Fahrenheit 451", and "Taxi Driver". He worked extensively in radio drama (composing for Orson Welles), composed the scores for several fantasy films by Ray Harryhausen, and many TV programs, including Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone" and "Have Gun – Will Travel".
Bernard Herrmann | Introduction
He had composed music for director Dante Tomaselli. His music was featured in the horror film "Torture Chamber", for which he also created all of the promotional poster art. He also did a select few pieces of music for "Murder University" as well as posters and promotional material for other films from Scorpio Film Releasings.
Sean Hartter | Film
He has also experimented with compositions utilising unusually placed sound sources - his radical 2001 arrangement of the Sanctus from Guillaume de Machaut's "Messe de Nostre Dame" featured two instrumental groups separated as far as possible (a strategy which anecdotally once broke up a Sinfonia 21 rehearsal when a "burly, tattooed Fire Officer" took exception to one of the groups blocking a fire exit).
Richard Causton (composer) | Work as composer
Clifford Glen Eidelman (born December 5, 1964 in Los Angeles, California) is an American composer and conductor who has scored films including "", "", and "".
Cliff Eidelman | Introduction
He also compiled and edited "Encyclopedia of Quotations about Music" for Doubleday in 1978. Shapiro introduced Galt MacDermot to Gerome Ragni and Jim Rado, the writers of the musical "Hair", and MacDermot composed the score.
Nat Shapiro | Introduction
Jauchem is also developing a cabaret style musical based on the music of Stew and Heidi Rodewald and writing an adaptation of ""The Mad Woman of Chaillot"" set on the Venice Beach Boardwalk.
Esquire Jauchem | Recent projects
He composed musical scores for the feature-length documentary films, "The End of America" and "MoveOn: The Movie." He has scored short films like, "Raving," directed by Julia Stiles and starring Zooey Deschanel and Bring them Home, directed by Oliver Stone. Daron has written on popular culture for publications like The Wall Street Journal, Men’s Vogue, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Huffington Post, I.D., Entertainment Weekly, and Vibe. And before becoming a creative for social justice, he was an editor and producer of the pioneering mid-1990s web site Word.com, one of the earliest and most influential online magazines.
Daron Murphy | Introduction
The film's score was composed by Marc Shaiman.
Misery (film) | Music
Their untitled piece was selected to the Berkeley Repertory Theatre's 2014 Ground Floor Writer's Summer Residency Lab.
Manu Narayan | Musician
The following list consists of select films and television shows for which Eric Hester wrote the score and/or songs. 1990s 2000s
Eric Hester | Film and television scores
He composed the Paramount Pictures Fanfare used from 1976 through 2011.
Jerry Goldsmith | Introduction