At ZMX Music we have just signed a blanket license with BMG, so we anticipate a great partnership and an expanded roster of artists in the near future! As of today we are now working with the bands Beach House,Metric, Anarbor, and Mustard Plug, and I expect there will be many more fantastic bands coming soon.
Boulder Symphony, Colorado
The Boulder Symphony will soon be playing a piece by Loretta Notareschi, a professor of music at Regis University and The Walden School. I prepared publication-ready scores for Loretta, and the symphony will perform the piece on Sept 21.
Esther Valentine big band
Singer/songwriter Esther Valentine has a big band album called “Go Where The Love Is”. We just completed revisions to her scores and parts so that she can tour the album live, and for a whole album of big band music that’s more paper than one person can carry comfortably alone!
ZMX signs City and Colour
ZMX just released the catalogue of our newest artist City And Colour. They are led by Dallas Green, formerly a member of Alexixonfire, and we’re happy to announce the new City And Colour sheet music.
Tell Tale Heart opera a success
We got another good review from the LA Times! Stewart Copeland’s newest opera “Tell-Tale Heart” is doing very well at the Long Beach Opera. It’s one of my recent score preparation projects. From the LA Times review:
“The production turns Copeland’s literal retelling of the short story into a flashy, grisly, sexy saga of a serial-killing Poe in a wheelchair.”
Buy tickets at LongBeachOpera.org. The show runs until May 19.
Hilary Hahn at Disney Hall
Violin virtuoso Hilary Hahn autographed some scores I made for her after her show at Disney Hall yesterday. The piece was one she commissioned from Rani Sharone. Congratulations Rani! I’m happy your composition was recognized in such a profound way. From the LA Times review:
“A very nice touch was Hahn’s actual encore. It was the world premiere of one of the competition’s runners-up, Rani Sharone’s `Tick.’ Tick it did, imaginatively.”
John Bobek album released
John Bobek is a Los Angeles based singer/songwriter with a great voice and equally great guitar chops. Today his album “Out Of Place” was released, a project produced by Jake Schaefer of Emphatic Entertainment. I did string orchestrations and music copyist work for the guys, both for the album and for their live shows.
Vicente Fernandez on DVD
“The Man Who Shook The Hand of Vicente Fernandez”, a film I orchestrated last year directed by Elia Petridis, is available today on BluRay and DVD. It stars the legendary Ernest Borgnine at age 94, and it was his last film before he died. It’s a very cute family comedy film, and you can find it on Amazon, Netflix, etc. The score was written by film composer Ruy Folguera.
Don Lardie book of transcriptions
Don Lardie was a blind composer and piano teacher who died several years ago. He recorded his compositions with a cheap old cassette player, and because of his blindness they were never written down. I had the honor of helping to preserve his legacy and recently completed transcribing his entire catalogue, a little more than 200 pages of solo piano music.