Many of the writers whose songs I listen to at my workshops work long and hard on their lyrics, striving to find unique, fresh ways to tell their stories and express their concepts. But they sometimes forget that we’re not writing poems, but songs—and if we hope to create songs… Read more...
The New York Songwriters Circle (NYSC) is currently accepting submissions for the organization’s 2009 Songwriting Contest. While each entry’s lyrics must be in English, NYSC encourages composers from all over the world, who create original tunes in every genre—and every musical gray area in between—to enter. 2008 2nd-place winner Gillian… Read more...
The Billboard/Hollywood Reporter Film & TV Music Conference was held November 1-2 at the Beverly Hills Hilton in Los Angeles, where BMI sponsored the opening keynote with composer Alan Menken, who wrote the score and music for the upcoming Disney Pictures film Enchanted, and moderator Richard Kraft of Kraft-Engel management.… Read more...
The Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL), in conjunction with BMI, held coast-to-coast screenings of The Hottest State, held at the Directors Guild both in Los Angeles (July 31) and New York (August 7). The film written and directed by Ethan Hawke, features a soundtrack composed by Grammy-winning BMI singer/songwriter… Read more...
The New York Songwriters Circle, home to such artists and writers as Norah Jones, Vanessa Carlton, Lisa Loeb, Jesse Harris and many more, is now accepting submissions for its 2007 Songwriting Contest. Vanessa Carlton Lisa Loeb Jesse Harris Founded and directed… Read more...
Her voice ranges from haunting, delicate beauty to an explosion of shattering, soaring soul. Her lyrics bloom from a place of uncompromising honesty and raw emotion, wise beyond her years. Her roots are the blues, classic soul and R&B, rock, gospel and folk, and the result is a personal brand… Read more...
It's been eight years between Madeleine Peyroux's first and second albums, but the time hasn't slowed her momentum. She was hailed by Time magazine on her first 1996 release, Dreamland , for creating "the most exciting, involving vocal performance by a new singer this year." Since Careless Love was… Read more...
Grammy in the Schools, a national outreach program that provides insight to students about careers that are available in music and direction on how to prepare for them, held its annual event at Pace University on March 22 with over 1000 New York area high school… Read more...
BMI singer/songwriter Norah Jones will headline a benefit concert for ailing guitarist and friend Jason Crigler, who suffered a brain aneurysm last year. The line-up will feature Jones and her Handsome Band, along with fellow New York musicians and friends Dennis Brennan, Amy Correia… Read more...
Authentic, warm, understated and old-fashioned aren’t adjectives that are often attached to top-selling recording artists in the “whoever shouts the loudest wins” world of contemporary music. Big production values and even bigger marketing campaigns usually help fuel top-selling artists in the digital age. What makes Norah… Read more...
Captured at BMI Pop Awards 2004
