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
A feature film aired on The Romance Channel. One of the featured actresses in this film by Nell Cox is Jane Krakowski from 30 Rock. She sings in the film and has an amazing voice. Perhaps I will put that audio clip up sometime soon for her fans to hear. Hudson River...
