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British film composer (born 1949)
- United Kingdom
- actor, composer, music teacher, film editor, film score composer, conductor
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2021-03-18 00:30:00
Variety.com: Two Black Composers Nominated for Best Original Score
[…] Black composer to be nominated twice (his “BlacKkKlansman” was nominated in 2018, duplicating Quincy Jones’ feat from 1967’s “In Cold Blood” and 1985’s “The Color Purple”). The late soul genius Isaac Hayes was nominated for his groundbreaking “Shaft” score in 1971; he lost the score award that year but won song honors for his now-iconic title theme. South African jazz musician Jonas Gwangwa was later nominated (along with composer George Fenton) for the anti-apartheid drama “Cry Freedom” in 1987.
2021-01-13 00:00:00
Decca Eloquence Part 3
E. Dohnanyi - Nursery VariationsF. Liszt - TotentanzS. Rachmaninov - Paganini Rhapsody W. Lutoslawski - Paganini Variations Andras Schiff piano Peter Jablonski piano Peter Katin piano G. Mahler Symphony No. 3 A. Schoenberg Pelleas und Melisande Iris Vermillion mezzosoprano Deutsches SO Berlin Vladimir Ashkenazy Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 Violin Concerto Rococo Variations Beethoven Triple Concerto Kyung-Wha Chung Myung-Wha Chung Myung-Whun Chung Los Angeles PO Charles Dutoit Giuseppe Verdi Falstaff (scenes) Falstaff: Fernando Corena Alice Ford: Ilva Ligabue Nanetta: Lydia Marimpietri Mistress Quickly: Regina Resnik Fenton: Luigi Alva New Symphony Orchestra of London Edward Downes plus Arias by Rossini and Donizetti M. Mussorgsky E. Chabrier: España P. Dukas: L´Aprenti Sorcier C. Debussy A. Borodin E. Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Concertgebouw Orchestra Jean Fournet Edward Elgar Enigma […]
2020-08-06 00:22:00
The Library of America: AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY: 250 Years of Struggle & Song
[…] in these pages, how an enslaved person like Phillis Wheatley confronted her legal status in verse and how an activist like Frances Ellen Watkins Harper voiced her own passionate resistance to slavery. Read nuanced, provocative poetic meditations on identity and self-assertion stretching from Paul Laurence Dunbar to Amiri Baraka to Lucille Clifton and beyond. Experience the transformation of poetic modernism in the works of Langston Hughes, Fenton Johnson, and Jean Toomer. Understand the threads of poetic history—in movements such as the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances, Black Arts, Cave Canem, Dark Noise Collective—and the complex bonds of solidarity and dialogue among poets across time and place. See how these poets have celebrated their African heritage and have connected with other communities in the African Diaspora. Enjoy the varied but distinctly black music of a tradition that […]
2020-02-10 11:42:28
[…] for the two-part adaptation – which was co-produced with Amazon – and that is Canadian-born composer Anne Nikitin. Following studies at Montréal’s McGill University, Nikitin completed a Masters in Composition at the Royal College of Music in London. Article: Who composed the music for Dracula? Article: Who composed the music for His Dark Materials? While here, she studied with the Oscar-winning composer Dario Marianelli and worked alongside veteran screen composer George Fenton on the likes of the natural history film One Life. With original music written for a number of critically-acclaimed films and television programmes, not to mention Damien Hirst’s 2017 Venice exhibition, it’s no wonder she was cited as a composer to watch by Classic FM in 2018. A versatile composer, Nikitin was nominated for both an Ivor Novello and a British Independent Film Award for her score for the film American Animals. Her […]
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