The Kodak Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles is the home of Cirque du Soleil’s latest spectacular show, a journey through cinema entitled Iris featuring music by one of the film industry’s most celebrated composers, Danny Elfman. Overture, the monthly publication of Pro Music Local 47, the musicians’ union in Los Angeles, carries a story […]
Bob James is a jazz pianist, composer and arranger whose career has spanned five decades. Having been discovered by Quincy Jones in 1963, he has recorded 37 solo albums to date and played on countless more by other artists. Perhaps best known for Angela, the theme tune to 1970s US sitcom Taxi, an example of […]
Last week, Seattle Weekly’s Arts section ran a story by Gavin Borchert about the concert series currently being performed by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. As present musical director Gerard Schwarz prepares to leave his post at the end of the season, the SSO’s Gund/Simonyi Farewell Commissions series will see them take on no fewer than […]
New York-based copyist and orchestrator Bob Nowak has worked with some of the biggest names in the music business in a career spanning decades. In recent years he has developed a strong partnership with composer William Perry, who is most famous for composing and performing piano scores for more than three hundred silent films while […]