I’m doing the music to a short film by Mel Shapiro called INFRARED. Mel, as you may remember, wrote the book and lyrics to HOMER IN CYBERSPACE — a musical we premiered last years. I’m playing all the parts myself using Logic 9 (just arrived yesterday). It’s the smokiest, jazziest music I’ve composed to date, [...]
I had avoided watching the recent “Who the [bleep] is Jackson Pollock?” thinking the story and punchline were all too predictable: woman finds painting in thrift shop, doesn’t realize it is a Pollock, she sells it and becomes rich. Well, this doesn’t exactly happen that way.
The protagonists in the film are two world-renown experts on [...]
A man, who I’ll call Arthur, died in 2006 at age 60, leaving everything to his mother. He was a professor of zoology. In the case that he died before his mother, which he did, his mother was to give certain things to UCLA. Some were earmarked for the Music Department. His mother died recently [...]
Rosarium: A Drama for Chorus and Orchestra
Act 1: Flower and Song
1. Prologue
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2. The Arrival
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3. Tenochtitlan
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4. Tepeyac
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5. (Link)
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6. Santa Maria
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Music: [...]
The Crocodile’s Christmas Ball and other odd tales (2002)
Music: Roger Bourland
Lyrics: William MacDuff
UCLA Chorale, Donald Neuen, Director
UCLA Wind Ensemble, D. Thomas Lee, Director
Roger Bourland, conducting
1. Tropical Christmas
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2. A Proper Cat Reflects upon the Holidays
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3. After Halloween
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4. Santa [...]
Flashpoint/Stonewall (1994)
Music: Roger Bourland
Lyrics: John Hall
Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles
Jon Bailey, conductor
Recording by Chuck White
1. Invocation; Evocation; Flashpoint Stonewall
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2. DreamDrag
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3. A Different Child
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4. The Parade
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5. Shame
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Some good friends had dinner with Kathleen Turner last week. The conversation that stood out was KT relating one of her pet peeves: fans complimenting her.
“OH MISS TURNER, I LOVE YOU!”
(In a grouchy voice) “You don’t love me, you don’t know me; you love my work.”
Tell it like it is girlfriend!
A raw, angry, and provocative must-see interview from XXXXX, music critic of many publications, who has seen the need for and income from his reviews plummet. Bloggers (I guess, like me, although I have no plans of replacing a music critic: they’d have to pay me to do that) are doing it for free. It’s [...]
Yesterday, on my third day of staying home with the flu, I heard the mom next door trying to teach her son some Michael Jackson songs.
“Beat it… beat it…. beat it….” Hmm, not sure what the rest of the words are. Let’s try another. “Thriller…. thriller…. dum dum dum da da da de…” Hmm, [...]
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