NYU ‘BMI Day’ Featured Composer Guide To Career Development
New York University‘s Steinhardt Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions presented BMI Day April 3 at the Blackbox Theatre of Pless Hall. The informative “one-of-kind” event focused on career development for film and television composers. NYU’s Ron Sadoff, Associate Professor & Director of Scoring for Film and Multimedia moderated the discussion open to NYU students enrolled within the department.
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Songwriter Hall of Fame inductee Charles Fox, lectured during the first half of the event on his experience as a composer in the television and motion picture industries. Fox, a Grammy and Emmy-winning composer, is responsible for such hits as “Killing Me Softly”, “Ready To Take a Chance Again”, a slew of TV themes including The Love Boat, Happy Days, and Laverne and Shirley as well as film scores for Foul Play, Nine to Five and National Lampoon’s European Vacation.
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The second half of BMI Day focused on artist development strategies with instructors Doreen Ringer Ross, BMI’s Vice President Film/TV Relations; music supervisor Tracy McKnight, whose works include the films Hotel Rwanda, The Ten, El Cantante, Friends With Money and A Dirty Shame; and film composer manager Robert Urband, whose clients include Alexandre Desplat ( The Queen), Ed Shearmur ( Charlie’s Angels), and Alex Wurman (March of the Penguins).
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