UCLA's Royce Hall is to play host to a concert celebrating music composed for television this month. The event will include many guest composers conducting their work and the bestowal of a special career achievement award to composer Mark Snow. Click here to learn more.
Announced this week were new composer assignments for: Benjamin Wallfisch (Crawlspace), Daniel Hart (Comet), James Newton Howard (Pawn Sacrifice), among many others. For the full list of composer and music supervisor assignments from this week, click here.
There were 38 new soundtrack albums released this week. Click here for the full schedule.
Opening nationwide today are (with music by): Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (Toby Chu), Moms' Night Out (Marc & Steffan Fantini), and Neighbors (Michael Andrews).
Among all new theatrical releases, we are tracking song credits for:
- Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (7 songs)
- Moms' Night Out (20 songs)
- Neighbors (29 songs)
- Cyber Seniors (4 songs)
- Devil's Knot (5 songs)
- The Double (7 songs)
- Fed Up (6 songs)
- Stage Fright (11 songs)
Finally, the following composer will be celebrating an upcoming birthday:
- Saturday: Jay Ferguson (The Office) will turn 67.
- Monday: Burt Bacharach (Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid) will turn 86.
- Wednesday: David Byrne (The Last Emperor) will turn 62.
- Thursday: Brian Eno (Heat) will turn 66.