Last night, the Television Academy presented its first ever live concert, Score! A Concert Celebrating Music Composed for Television, at UCLA’s Royce Hall. The event was hosted by film music journalist Jon Burlingame and featured music from over 50 television series performed by a 70-piece orchestra and the LA Chorus. To start off, Mark Watters conducted a medley featuring 24 themes from current and recent TV shows following a video montage of numerous classic themes. The medley included music from Once Upon a Time (Mark Isham), Sherlock (David Arnold & Michael Price), The Newsroom (Thomas Newman), Revolution (Christopher Lennertz), The Americans (Nathan Barr), Camelot (Mychael & Jeff Danna), Law & Order (Mike Post), Modern Family (Gabriel Mann) and Breaking Bad (Dave Porter). The first composer to be featured on the program was John Lunn who flew in from London to perform a suite from his Emmy-winning score from Downton Abbey. Next up was Alf Clausen who holds the record of scoring the most amount of TV episodes on U.S. primetime television. The composer came to the stage for a brief conversation before Dell Hake conducted a suite of his music from The Simpsons, including The Stonecutters’ Song from the sixth season of the series. Also featured in the first half of the show was Jeff Beal who conducted a suite from his Emmy-nominated 
score from House of Cards and his Emmy-winning main titles theme from Monk, which the composer performed on flugelhorn himself. The music of Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman, who attended the concert in person, was celebrated with a suite of their music from Heroes, Nurse Jackie, Touch and Carnivale. The first half of the program concluded with the music of Emmy winner Bear McCreary who conducted a suite of his scores from Da Vinci’s Demons and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., as well as The Walking Dead, during which six zombies snuck through the crowd and leapt on-stage to attack and capture the composer (pictured on the left).
The second half of the show opened with a couple of remarks by ASCAP Board member and Academy Award nominee Bruce Broughton, following which Sean Callery came to the stage to conduct a suite featuring his music from The Kennedys, Elementary and 24. His performance was introduced by a video featuring 24 stars Kiefer Sutherland & Mary Lynn Rajskub. The evening also featured a Career Achievement Award from the Television Academy’s Music Peer Group, which was presented to 15-time Emmy nominee Mark Snow by actor Tim Daly who is also his brother-in-law. Snow then went on to perform a suite of his music from The X-Files and Millennium. James S. Levine made his concert performance debut with a suite of his scores for Ryan Murphy’s Glee and American 
Horror Story. Walter Murphy conducted two songs from Seth MacFarlane’s Family Guy, including the main titles theme, as well as All I Really Want for Christmas and Trevor Morris conducted the Emmy-winning main theme from The Borgias, as well as a cue from his score for The Tudors. The concert concluded with a suite from HBO’s Game of Thrones, which composer Ramin Djawadi conducted in person.
In addition to the featured composers, the concert was also attended by 24 producers Joel Surnow & Howard Gordon, composers Gabriel Mann (Modern Family, Rectify) and Dave Porter (Breaking Bad, The Blacklist). The event was executive produced by Television Academy Music Peer Group Governor, Michael A. Levine, Mark Watters and Lucas Cantor. Spike Jones, Jr. produced and directed the evening.
