Battle of the Brass Cue #1:
Battle of the Brass Cue #2:
I was working on the score for Johnny Mnemonic and a thought occurred to me. Often in big action scenes the through line of the music gets cut off by various loud sound efx. Explosions, crashes etc. In watching the scenes I
Play Eden End Credits:
In 1975 during the time when I was on the road with Hall and Oates, I had the opportunity to score my first feature film, Apple Pie. It was written and directed by my old friend Howard Goldberg. I was definitely learning on the job (though I
We left off last time with me blurting out….
Well, Jim and Gale didn’t seem offended by my outburst. We had a great conversation about the film and the musical possibilities, but I could tell that Jim wasn’t totally sold yet. It’s helpful for a composer to have insightful intellectual observations,
In the early 80’s I scored a number of prestigious television films starring the likes of Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander, Anthony Hopkins, Betty Davis and Jimmy Stewart. I had the privilege of working with writers like Arthur Miller and Garson Kanin. A number of those scores were period pieces and
Intro
A little over two years ago I started on a creative journey. I hadn’t scored a film or television project in over ten years. I’d moved on to creating several ambitious original projects, two musicals for the screen and a theatrical musical. The musicals sat on the shelf while I