Film & TV

ASCAP composer Geoff Zanelli won an Emmy for his score to the acclaimed mini-series Into the West. Eight years later, the soundtrack has finally been released. Zanelli explains what took so long, and offers some great advice about how to release your own soundtrack a bit quicker than he did.

Pandora recently purchased radio station KXMZ-FM in Rapid City, South Dakota, in a bid to lower the licensing fees it pays songwriters and composers. Pandora says this will help creators and listeners. But the facts tell a different story.

Over an acclaimed composing career stretching nearly 25 years, Scottish composer Patrick Doyle has brought many of the world's most beloved characters to musical life on the silver screen, from Hamlet to Harry Potter. Just before he earned the prestigious ASCAP Henry Mancini Award, we asked him to reflect on his journey so far.

Pandora ran an op-ed in The Hill yesterday attacking ASCAP's efforts to protect fair compensation for its members from the online music streaming service. Read ASCAP President and Chairman and songwriter Paul Williams's response here.

The ASCAP Foundation Broadway Conductors Program, which was made possible by an unrestricted bequest from Marvin Hamlisch to The ASCAP Foundation, launched in early June and celebrated the memory of the famed conductor and composer.

It’s the end of the world as we know it, and Joachim Horsley feels fine. He’s the ASCAP composer behind the apocalyptic romp Rapture-Palooza, out now in theaters. We asked Horsley about his wide-ranging music for the hilarious film while doing our best to avoid fiery meteors and flesh-eating zombies.

Acclaimed ASCAP composer Sharon Farber continued her longtime dedication to education by presenting a film scoring master class, hosted by LA Women in Music. The class went deep into the art and business of writing to picture, and was attended by several distinguished musical guests.

The premise of The Purge is as simple as it is horrifying: the American government has instituted an annual 12-hour period where all criminal activity is legal. It’s a nightmarish future that ASCAP composer Nathan Whitehead was asked to set to music. We sent him a few questions to find out how he did it.

Elite ASCAP composers gathered to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Varèse Sarabande, the leading label for recorded film music. Composers Hans Zimmer, Michael Giacchino, John Debney, Austin Wintory, Mike Einziger (Incubus) and more were on hand to pay tribute to the venerable imprint.

Before Midnight, the final film in a trilogy that has narrated a nearly 20-year relationship between director Richard Linklater’s characters Celine and Jesse, hit theaters on May 24th. Giving those characters a musical voice for the first time was Austin-based composer Graham Reynolds, who spoke with us about his score and collaboration.

Drew will be responsible for overseeing the ASCAP Membership Creative Services staff in all musical genres and will also oversee the operations of the LA, New York and Nashville membership offices. The promotion was announced on May 21st by ASCAP CEO John LoFrumento.

ASCAP composer Michael Giacchino could have relied on Trekkie nostalgia for his score to Star Trek: Into Darkness. Instead, he did what he's always done: he wrote the right music for the story. Before the film's release, Giacchino told us how he did it.

The Great Gatsby enjoyed one of the year's biggest opening weekends at the box office so far. The Monday after Gatsby debuted in theaters, the Recording Academy and Warner Bros. Pictures co-presented a screening and panel discussion with ASCAP writer-producer Rick Nowels and music executives Darren Higman and Tony Seyler, all of whom contributed to the film's ambitious soundtrack.

When director Baz Luhrmann decided to bring about his screen adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, he turned to his longtime collaborator, ASCAP composer Craig Armstrong. ASCAP's Jeff Jernigan spoke with Armstrong about his involvement with the ambitious project.

For yet another year, our composers and songwriters dominated the nominations field for daytime TV’s highest honor. ASCAP members Jack Allocco, David Kurtz, Joey Mazzarino and Bill Sherman lead the pack with three nods each.

ASCAP's 2013 General Annual Membership Meeting was held on Thursday, April 18th at the Loews Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles, CA. The meeting kicked off the 2013 ASCAP "I Create Music" EXPO, the annual three-day conference for music creators featuring educational and inspiring panels, networking opportunities and exhibits.

ASCAP composer Atli Örvarsson highlighted the all-star Evolution of Film & TV Music panel at this year's Newport Beach Film Festival. The award-winning composer of Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters and NBC's Chicago Fire is a graduate of the ASCAP TV & Film Scoring Workshop with Richard Bellis.