A Contradictory Composer’s Spiritual Devotion to Craft
British musicologist Emily Kilpatrick’s biography of French composer Maurice Ravel succeeds because it mirrors Ravel’s own approach to work. Source link
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Chloe Flower Celebrates Female Classical Composers With New Holiday Album ‘She Composed’
While female vocalists like Mariah Carey and Ariana Grande have a stronghold on modern holiday music playlists, pianist Chloe Flower wanted to highlight a lesser known group of women with…
The Towering Musical Integrity of Christoph von Dohnányi
In September, 1943, a thirteen-year-old German boy named Christoph von Dohnányi wrote an innocuous-seeming letter to his uncle Dietrich: Uncle Klaus is planning to come tomorrow.…
World Soundtrack Awards Celebrate Landmark 25th Edition by Promoting Orchestral Music as Film Composers Grow ‘Wary’ of AI
It is a landmark year for the World Soundtrack Awards, which are celebrating 25 years of recognizing the contributions of global film and television composers. The event spawned out of…
BMI Launches Lab for Aspiring Film, TV and Game Composers (EXCLUSIVE)
For more than two decades, performing-rights society BMI partnered with the Sundance Institute on a well-regarded Composers Lab, in which young filmmakers and composers collaborated and…
‘Thunderbolts*’ Composers Son Lux on Creating a New Superhero Theme and Foreshadowing It Early in the Film
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for “Thunderbolts*,” now playing in theaters. When “Thunderbolts*” director Jake Schreier was called on to helm the 36th film in the…
India’s Music Composers, Screenwriters Associations Ink Historic Fair Credit Deal; Vishal Bhardwaj Hails ‘Collaborative Future’ (EXCLUSIVE)
In a watershed moment for India‘s entertainment industry, the Music Composers Association of India (MCAI) and Screenwriters Association (SWA) have formalized a groundbreaking partnership…