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May 07, 2010 Shown at the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation “Friend-raiser” fundraiser, held Wednesday, May 5 are Felice Mancini, Executive Director, Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation; Dave Koz; BMI’s Doreen Ringer Ross; and David Benoit. During the event, Dave Koz and David Benoit jammed with the children’s jazz band. View Photo

Apr 26, 2010 BMI composer Charles Sydnor recently completed the composition and recording of an orchestral tone poem entitled “Aeschylus.” Sydnor recorded the piece with a 51-piece orchestra at East West Studios, the historic site of United Western Studio 1. Pictured at the recording session are BMI’s Anne Cecere and Sydnor. Learn more about his work at charlessydnor.com. View Photo

Apr 26, 2010 Doreen Ringer Ross, BMI Vice President, Film/TV Relations, served as an advisor during the recent IFP Rough Cut Documentary Lab in New York. Ringer Ross was joined as an advisor by composer T. Griffin, who is also a Sundance Composers Lab alumnus. Pictured at the lab are Griffin, IFP Program Manager Rose Vincelli, Ringer Ross and Milton Tabbot, Senior Director… View Photo

Apr 21, 2010 Otavio Santos has been named the BMI/Jerry Goldsmith Film Scoring Scholarship recipient at UCLA Extension. The announcement was jointly made by Doreen Ringer Ross, Vice President, Film/TV Relations, BMI and Pascale Halm, Program Director, UCLA Extension. Pictured are Kristen Kang, Film Scoring Program, UCLA Extension; BMI’s Doreen Ringer Ross; Otavio Santos, 2010 BMI/Jerry Goldsmith Film Scoring Scholarship recipient; and Pascale… View Photo

Apr 20, 2010 YMF Composer-in-Residence Charles Fox and the YMF Debut Orchestra perform Fox’s newest gem, “Arabesque for Orchestra (2010).” View Photo

Apr 20, 2010 BMI composer Charles Fox conducts the YMF Debut Orchestra in a performance of his new piece, “Arabesque for Orchestra (2010).” View Photo

Apr 20, 2010 BMI joined the Young Musicians Foundation (YMF) to celebrate the latter’s Composer-in-Residence Charles Fox at a recent spring concert at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica, CA. The concert featured Fox performing and conducting his original work “Arabesque for Orchestra (2010)” with the YMF Debut Orchestra. Fox is the composer behind such TV themes as Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley,… View Photo

Apr 20, 2010 Emmy-winning composer Bruce Babcock recently debuted his new musical work, “This Is What I Know,” at UCLA. The musical performance piece featured four poems by Dorothy Parker and the soprano voice of Juliana Gondek, a UCLA Professor of Distinguished Voice. Babcock has scored such TV shows as Matlock and Murder She Wrote and has also created original music for films… View Photo

Apr 20, 2010 BMI composer Christopher Lennertz recently finished his score for the summer comedy Marmaduke. Based on the canine comic strip star, the family-friendly comedy stars Owen Wilson as the voice of Marmaduke the Great Dane. Also lending their voices to the 20th Century Fox production are Steve Coogan, pop star Fergie, George Lopez, and the brotherly duo of Damon and Marlon… View Photo

Apr 14, 2010 BMI composers Jeremy Zuckerman and Benjamin Wynn discuss their music for Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender. View Photo