by Charlie Barnett | Jan 31, 2020 | Film Scores, Reviews
By Ann Hornaday Movie critic Jan. 31, 2020 at 7:00 a.m. EST Can cinema break us out of our silos? That question occurred to me recently when I watched “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words,” a new documentary about the notoriously taciturn Supreme Court...
by Modern Songbook Records | Oct 12, 2015 | Charlie's Blog, Film Scores, News
I recently completed the score for a documentary about the dark and quixotic artist Miriam Beerman, who is 91 years old. The film, Miriam Beerman: Expressing the Chaos, is a passion project by the director Jonathan Gruber. It was an incredible challenge to match the...
by Modern Songbook Records | Dec 15, 2013 | Film Scores, Gallery, News, TV Work
Actor/director Paolo Costanzo, who plays Evan R. Lawson on the USA Network series Royal Pains, needed a collaborator to bring to life his vision: a musical production number to cap a five-episode summer 2013 series on the show’s website. Working with...
by Modern Songbook Records | Apr 19, 2013 | Charlie's Blog, Film Scores, News
I recently scored a feature-length documentary on post World War II printmaking in the American Midwest. Somehow, in my mind, Midwest printmaking meant clarinet. And that meant I got the pleasure of recording the principal clarinetist from the Kennedy Center’s...
by Modern Songbook Records | Mar 21, 2012 | Charlie's Blog, Film Scores, News
There are as many ways to score a film as there are…. well, to write music. We don’t all get to score the big orchestral films we want to on every job. In my case, I bounce around from feature films to TV docs to non-broadcast short films, mostly for...
by Modern Songbook Records | Feb 6, 2012 | Film Scores
[audio:https://charliebarnett.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/cba12.mp3|titles=Hudson River Blues – Main Titles][audio:https://charliebarnett.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/cba14.mp3|titles=Hudson River Blues – The Zen Zydeco Picnic] A feature film, aired...
