Last night, the Television Academy presented its second live concert, Words + Music – A Concert Celebrating Music Written for Television. The event, which celebrated the importance of original songs and scores in television and was conceived and organized by Television Academy Music Governor Michael A. Levine, music director Rickey Minor and produced by Ben Carter, took place at the Saban Media Center’s Wolf Theatre at the Television Academy’s campus in North Hollywood. Mark Watters conducted several performances throughout the evening.
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Television Academy to Host ‘Words + Music – A Concert Celebrating Music Written for Television’
This coming Thursday, June 29, the Television Academy will be hosting a concert celebrating music written for television. Words + Music will feature the live performance of original songs and scores from the composers of top shows from the past TV season. Participating composers include Mac Quayle (Mr. Robot), Siddhartha Khosla (This Is Us), Jeff Russo (Fargo, The Night Of), Sean Callery (Homeland), Nathan Barr (The Americans) and Pedro Bromfman (Narcos).
Television Academy Celebrates TV Music at Live Concert
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).