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The ASCAP film music family has done it again! The World Soundtrack Academy has nominated 10 ASCAP members and international affiliates for its 2019 World Soundtrack Awards, one of the most prestigious film music honors in Europe.
The ASCAP Golden Note Award is presented to songwriters, composers and artists who have achieved extraordinary career milestones. Past recipients include Michael W. Smith, Bob McDill, Don Williams, Mary Mary, JD Souther and Reba McEntire.
The Netflix series Our Planet is a sensory feast. Viewers are treated to eight hours of stunning footage of hundreds of species of plant and animal life, many of which are seldom seen on camera at all, let alone this intimately. The vastness of the series’ subject matter – and its clarion call for action to combat global warming – requires an equally panoramic score. Few composers are as fit for the task as Steven Price, whose Oscar-winning score for Gravity captured both the terror and the beauty of space. Price’s music for Our Planet does the same for the earthly realm, conjuring musical worlds every bit as vivid as the environments he’s scoring. We caught up with him during a late-night studio session, a couple weeks after he netted two Emmy nominations for the show’s main theme and first episode, “One Planet.”
The lovers, the dreamers and me. We were all there singing “The Rainbow Connection” together with Kermit the Frog and Jim James of My Morning Jacket at the close of this year’s Newport Folk Festival.
