In these days of low budgets and high technology, it’s unusual for a weekly episodic television show to have an orchestral soundtrack performed by a live orchestra. For many years, the only show in Hollywood to feature a live orchestral score every week was The Simpsons, composed and orchestrated by Sibelius user Alf Clausen. Though there […]
One of the charitable organisations that Sibelius, and now Avid, has always been proud to support is the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus, which travels around the United States providing opportunities to children all over the country to get their hands on some seriously cool kit for media creation. Along with stations running Sibelius and […]
Just before Christmas, I posted about the sleeve art for guitarist, composer and Sibelius user Pat Metheny’s new album, Orchestrion, which features a Sibelius 6 box lurking amidst the huge variety of musical instruments that cram the picture. (If you look really closely you can see Pat himself at the left-hand side, hiding behind his […]
The Palm Beach Arts Paper recently ran a profile of Pulitzer-prize winning composer and Sibelius user Ellen Zwilich, in advance of the Florida premiere of her acclaimed Septet for piano trio and string quartet (2009). As the article says: Zwilich, 70, is a native South Floridian and one of the most honored American composers of […]
Sibelius includes some simple but powerful features for working with text wildcards. Wildcards are text tokens that are automatically substituted with text from elsewhere. They’re useful for situations where you want the same information to be shown in lots of different places, allowing you to change that information once and have it updated automatically everywhere […]
My good friend Philip Rothman at NYC Music Services has been creating a number of tutorial videos about Sibelius and Finale and posting them at YouTube. Philip is an expert user of both Sibelius and Finale, and has some valuable tips to share. The video above shows how to synchronise Sibelius’s playback with Logic Pro […]
If you’re within easy reach of London and have Sibelius 4 or later, you may be interested in spending an afternoon at Somerset House in the company of Neil Luck, a lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire and an editor and engraver for Faber Music. Neil will be running a Sibelius workshop on Tuesday 16 […]
Composer Kampadi Okpa has written a head-to-head comparison of Finale and Sibelius for the web site SonicStrategy.net. It’s a pretty detailed write-up, breaking down his impressions of both applications into a number of categories, including logic, flexibility, multimedia integration, ability as a creative aid, and customer service and support. Sibelius comes out on top in […]
Mexican-born composer Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon was recently interviewed by Tom Moore of Opera Today. Zohn-Muldoon is Associated Professor of Composition at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. The interview is a genuinely interesting and engaging read, describing the composer’s early tuition from his father, his rock band in Guadalajara, his studies with George Crumb, […]
On the eve of this year’s BETT show, education technology journalist Hugh John has written a piece about the development of Sibelius 6, based on an interview I gave last year at the time of the product’s launch. Although it’s taken a while to appear, it’s timely that it appears today, with Sibelius 6 about […]