Description: A musical road trip. My parents used to drive us up Route 1 from Virginia to Maine each summer. This is my memory of that journey. Some orchestras have chosen to program individual movements of this piece, especially “The Detour, the Argument, and Finally, the Map” (Movement 3) and “Home” (Movement 4).
Description: These tracks are from a huge multi-screen project at the Newseum when it was in Arlington, Virginia. It was a powerful exhibit featuring images shown on a 112-foot screen that was sometimes divided into nine parts, sometimes divided into three parts, and sometimes left as one giant screen. The images conveyed an incredibly powerful anti-war message.
Description: These pieces are from Paper Clips, a wonderful documentary that I scored. The film tells the story of the town of Whitwell, Tennessee, and its junior high school’s project designed to teach their kids the scale of the Holocaust by collecting 6 million paper clips — a project that involves the whole town and beyond. I tried to match the somber but hopeful tone of the story with compositions to reflect the Appalachian setting, with the overtones of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. Our team traveled to Nashville to record singer Alison Krauss on several songs, including a haunting version of the traditional dance tune “Jubilee.”
Paper Clips Orchestral Theme
Paper Clips – Cues featuring Janice Martin (violin), Greg Watkins (bass), Robert Sullivan (guitar), and Lukasz Czyner (cello)
Paper Clips – Cues featuring vocalist Alison Krauss
Description: In my film music career, I have always wanted only two things: 1. To score a sweeping Western, and 2. To score a pirate movie. This is the pirate movie…without the visuals. It is programmatic, although I have yet to determine how much of that information to share with an audience.
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