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This morning I was presented with two nice surprises. First, the Berklee College of Music Berklee Blogs did a really nice feature about me. Second, Dream Gallery made it to Amazon’s Hot New Releases list. Not a bad way to start the day!
I’m also beginning some work for another show with Stewart Copeland and D’Drum, this time at the Royal College of Music in London. What a great day!
Dan Spurgeon, the writer of Bugbaby which I scored last year, has a nice feature in Disarray Magazine in which he is interviewed about the film. It has played in about 15 festivals so far and we expect another good run this Halloween. Bugbaby was produced by The Visceral Company.
The physical release of Dream Gallery is today, and the album is still on sale for HALF PRICE through iTunes for the rest of this month. Buy it before the price doubles!
It’s 70 minutes of classical/rock full orchestra art songs, nothing like anything you have in your collection. Check it out on iTunes, Amazon, our label Delos, Arkiv Music, Classics Online, or a store near you.
Another nice album review by John J. Puccio is available on Classical Candor.
Composer Brian Ralston had his scoring session today for Crooked Arrows, his latest feature film, and I prepared the sheet music for his recording session. It’s a story centered on a Native American lacrosse team making its way through a prep school league tournament.
The live music and dance show “Don’ts For Dancers,” a theatrical dance and live music performance, begins its Australian tour today. I arranged and produced some music for the show and for clarinet virtuoso Nicole Canham who directs it. Playing first in Canberra, Brisbane, and Cairns, the show takes a satirical look at the conventions of social dancing. Singer Vanessa Jourdan was collaborating with us in the music production.
The Dream Gallery’s release was not long ago, and we’re already getting some very favorable press:
La Jolla Light – album & artist profile
Richmond Confidential – album & artist profile
Midwest Records – album review
Boing Boing – album review
I’m very pleased to announce the March 6 release by the Delos label of “The Dream Gallery: Seven California Portraits”, a massive song cycle for solo singers and full orchestra that depicts a group of archetypal Californians and the regions in which they live.
My first major label release, I co-produced the album and co-orchestrated the music with composer Mark Abel. I also played the piano throughout and we did some of the smaller recording sessions in my Torrance studio. Sharon Lavery, one of the Los Angeles area’s leading conductors, directed an ensemble of distinguished Hollywood session players.
The product of an intense year-and-a-half of composing and recording, Dream Gallery exposes both the state’s varied landscape and the fault lines of its characters’ internal worlds. Dispensing with postcard themes and stressing stark realism, the piece highlights these complexities through music that melds elements of classical, rock and jazz, and is performed by high caliber musicians from across California. Many thanks to Carol Rosenberger, the head of the Delos label, who has been extremely supportive!
Our film Bugbaby, with Mink Stole as the lead and myself as composer, has been featured by the local PBS in San Diego and will be playing this Saturday, Feb 11, at the Horrible Imaginings Film Festival. I think this is festival #20 for Bugbaby, the little film that could!
A nice review of The Magic Hourglass and my score for it was written by Mark Sevi for the Orange County Screenwriters. The Magic Hourglass is a mystery/fantasy film that I scored last year, written and directed by Robert Rollins.