Movie and TV composers are in greater demand than ever for, surprisingly, new music for the concert hall.
For decades, concert commissions for film composers were few and far between. The increasing popularity of John Williams’ film music, and his visibility as conductor of the Boston Pops in the 1980s and ’90s, led to his writing a number of concert works, but Williams was, for the most part, the exception to the rule.
That is changing, some composers say, because orchestra managers are reaching the belated conclusion that film music communicates immediately to audiences, and the current trend of live-to-picture concerts of movie hits (everything from “Star Wars” to “Lord of the Rings”) is bringing in big bucks. As a result, adventurous programmers are seeking new works by established film composers in hopes that audiences have developed a thirst for similarly melodic, even exciting, music by names they recognize even...
For decades, concert commissions for film composers were few and far between. The increasing popularity of John Williams’ film music, and his visibility as conductor of the Boston Pops in the 1980s and ’90s, led to his writing a number of concert works, but Williams was, for the most part, the exception to the rule.
That is changing, some composers say, because orchestra managers are reaching the belated conclusion that film music communicates immediately to audiences, and the current trend of live-to-picture concerts of movie hits (everything from “Star Wars” to “Lord of the Rings”) is bringing in big bucks. As a result, adventurous programmers are seeking new works by established film composers in hopes that audiences have developed a thirst for similarly melodic, even exciting, music by names they recognize even...
- 3/23/2019
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
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It's the shortest day of the year, so for all you folks who aren't kept in the Blungeon™ (I owe snicks a royalty for that), starting tomorrow you get more seconds of precious sunlight. Happy Solstice, to those who celebrate it. Lady GaGa was photographed by David Lachapelle for a booklet in a special, limited edition of Fame Monster. Most of the pictures are actually Nsfw, so we won't be printing them here, but she has lovely taste in bodies to be strewn at her feet. In the teaser photo on the front page, you see The Bold & The Beautiful's Brandon Beemer, who won basically every category in the Soap Hunks voting I asked you to go participate in a couple weeks ago. Gays won nada.
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