The BMI composer behind the brilliant (and very memorable) scores to Mission: Impossible, Dirty Harry, Voyage of the Damned and Cool Hand Luke, in addition to many other popular films and TV series, was celebrated with an honorary Oscar Sunday night by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The… Read more...
The Society of Composers & Lyricists awarded prolific composer Randy Edelman with the SCL Ambassador honor at the organization’s 2017 annual holiday dinner Tuesday, December 5. The dinner, which took place at the Skirball Cultural Center in LA, included a performance by Edelman, who treated the audience to several of his… Read more...
The 85th birthday of venerated composer, conductor, pianist, and jazz musician Lalo Schifrin will be celebrated with a not-to-be-missed concert at the historic Alex Theatre in Glendale, CA, on Saturday, October 7, and BMI affiliates are invited to purchase tickets at a special discounted rate. Schifrin has written classic television themes… Read more...
BMI Vice President, Film, TV & Visual Media Relations, Doreen Ringer-Ross, was a special guest representing BMI’s partnership in this year’s renowned Kraków Film Music Festival, held May 17-23 in Poland. The Festival, which is now revered as one of the largest and most prestigious film music festivals in the world,… Read more...
The Society of Composers & Lyricists provided yet another milestone for renowned BMI composer Thomas Newman, who was inducted as an SCL Ambassador at the organization’s 28th annual holiday dinner Wednesday, December 14. The dinner, which took place at the Skirball Cultural Center in LA, was filled with tributes and performances… Read more...
BMI is proud to congratulate BMI composer, conductor and pianist Lalo Schifrin, who will be honored as Commandeur of Arts and Letters by France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres on November 8, 2016. Schifrin, who has written more than 100 film and TV scores including the iconic Mission Impossible theme,… Read more...
BMI composer/conductors John Williams and David Newman returned to the Hollywood Bowl for three nights over Labor Day weekend to give movie-loving audiences more groundbreaking performances of film music. During the magical night under the LA stars, which was aptly entitled “Maestro of the Movies,” Williams conducted his scores from blockbuster… Read more...
Ceremony also celebrated top film, TV and cable composers Read more...
Broadcast Music Inc. is proud to announce that five of its top-tier Latin music affiliates have been nominated for induction into the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014. Of the five, two BMI Icons were nominated: Gloria Estefan and Juan Luis Guerra, while Alvaro Torres, BMI’s 1994 Latin Songwriter of… Read more...
Sleep is not something iZLER is getting a lot of these days, but that’s fine by him. Not only is he father to a toddler, but when you’re one of the most in-demand composers in primetime television, insomnia just comes with the territory. As the musical brains behind ABC’s hit drama… Read more...
