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The Chattanooga Symphony & Opera, with support from the Osborne Foundation, presented the first Southeast Film Music Symposium on March 1-3, 2013 in Chattanooga, TN. Composers, musicians, music students, and film music lovers came from across the United States, including Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Idaho, New York, California and Arkansas, as…
BMI Celebrates the Creative Process at Sundance
Composers Terence Blanchard, George S. Clinton, Ed Shearnur Among Panelists BMI will present its annual Composer/Director Roundtable during the 2007 Sundance Film Festival being held Jan. 18-28 in Park City, Utah. Entitled "Music & Film: The Creative Process," the roundtable will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 24…
BMI Hears ‘Voices’ at Chamber Music Festival
BMI's Doreen Ringer Ross was on hand for a special performance of Bruce Babcock's "imagined/remembered," a sonata for cello and piano, as part of the "Voices of Hollywood" concert at the 3rd Annual Beverly Hills International Chamber Music Festival. The performance, held at the historic Beverly Hills…
‘Río de Sangre’ Premieres at Walt Disney Concert Hall
BMI's Linda Livingston and Ivanne Deneroff were on hand to congratulate composer Don Davis, whose new opera-in-progress Río de Sangre recently premiered at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Grant Gershon conducted the Los Angeles Master Chorale and Orchestra, with soloists Elissa Johston, Jonathan Mack, Hector Vasquez, Kerry Walsh…
BMI Hands Out Over 100 Awards at Annual Film/TV Gala
Mark Mothersbaugh Honored for Outstanding Career Achievement BMI honored the composers and songwriters of the music from the past year's top-grossing films, top-rated prime-time network television series and highest-ranking cable television shows at its annual Film & Television Awards dinner on May 12. Held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire…
Film Noir Composers Get Colorful Reception
BMI co-sponsored the grand opening reception for the exhibit, "Film Noir: The Music That Sets The Tone" at the Hollywood Entertainment Museum. The exhibit displays works from the Film Noir genre and features BMI composers Don Davis and Christopher Young, along with…
Q&A With ‘Matrix’ Composer Don Davis
BMI and The Society of Composers and Lyricists recently held a screening of The Matrix Revolutions, followed by a Q&A session with BMI composer Don Davis. The Emmy Award-winning composer and orchestrator, who scored all the movies from the sci-fi trilogy, also wrote the…
Film/TV Music Conference Offers Discount to BMI Songwriters
The Hollywood Reporter/Billboard Film & TV Music Conference is now offering a discounted registration fee of $199 to BMI songwriters. Full price, walk-up registration for the 2-day conference, to be held November 19-20 at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles, is $450.
Don Davis
The sci-fi trilogy The Matrix not only revealed a hidden world programmed by evil computers, it also cast a spotlight on Emmy-winning composer and orchestrator (“The Beauty and the Beast,” “Seaquest DSV”) Don Davis. "I knew these guys had quite a bit up their sleeves," says the…
Top Film, TV, Cable Composers Honored at BMI’s Annual Film/TV Awards
BMI honored the composers and songwriters of the music to the top-grossing films, the top-rated prime-time network television shows and the highest ranking cable television shows of the year at its annual Film & Television Awards dinner. Held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills on…
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Captured at Sundance Roundtable 2007