Sentences with phrase «music directors who»

There are simply too few congregations vs. willing and able music directors who actually want a wide spectrum of style, emotion, and text.

As a music director who has worked extensively in an international capacity, I am a good choice if you are in the market to hire someone who has diverse musical composition and direction abilities.

Not exact matches

But they also wanted someone who could eventually be a musical director, teach him to make music, and just be a good influence.

The Director of The Institute of Ismaili Studies, Professor Azim Nanji, who chaired the conference, said: «the purpose of the conference was to explore how music enables a deeper understanding and appreciation of the parallels and exchanges among the three traditions.»

This Church has fired a well known music composer as choir director because he prayed and was «too spiritual» at choir practice, Fired an amazing organist (who played with one hand because of a disability) for reasons unknown.

Raise Your Hand's director Wendy Katten, who assembled the coalition of 16 parent and community groups to oppose Emanuel's initial 7 1/2 hour school day proposal, said that while the mayor shortened his proposal to 7 hours the group plans to keep pressing for more arts, music and foreign language programs...

[Music] Robin Kaplan: So we're back with Michelle Hickman, who is the Director of Activism for Best for Babes, and we are talking about ways to combat nursing in public harassment.

«We are eager to meet the families in Orland Park who are looking for quality music lessons for their children,» director Janet Kuester said on the company's website.

Mrs. Griffin, who taught music at the Catholic school from 1948 to 1973, was also director of the church choir.

Vying for the nomination are Dan Liedka, the mayor of East Syracuse who works in sales at Doubletree Hotel in Syracuse and as a broadcaster for Time Warner Cable Sports, and Andrew Russo, an accomplished pianist and music director at Le Moyne College.

Tim, who has co-written over 400 commercial treatments and music videos with directors including: Wim Wenders, Richard Ayoade and Jonas Ackerlund, for clients and artists such as: Lady Gaga, Honda, and Louis Vuitton, opined that, though he haven't watched Ghanaian movies before, he likes African stories and since he's in Ghana to learn and see how to assist both the needy through Obiba Foundation and people in film - making, he has started watching Ghanaian films.

«Your brain takes all this information and extracts from it not just what the sounds are and where the sources are, but a sense of what the environment is around you,» says Agnieszka Roginska, associate director of New York University's music technology program, who is also working on spatially realistic sound.

The best parts of the movie are the music and the visual style, but that is to be expected considering who the director is.

Music video director Geremy Jasper's debut feature stars Danielle Macdonald as Patricia «Killa P» Dombrowski, a bartender in New Jersey who hopes her rap skills can lead her to fame and fortune.

A music - oriented director who made the much - criticized Alien 3, Fincher hit it big with Se7en and moved on to other complex / gimmicky thrillers like The Game and Fight Club.

This melodrama, with a few comic overtones, was not the finest moment for either star Bebe Daniels or director Victor Schertzinger (who also composed the music and songs).

While the choreography is generally fairly minimal (at least for this sort of mega-production), first time film director Phyllida Lloyd (who helmed the original stage version) has woven together a tightly edited and exceedingly well shot film that capitalizes on the music wonderfully while never worrying too much about such nettlesome items as character or motivation, providing enough other movement that one ultimately doesn't miss huge dance numbers a la Robbins or Fosse that much in the long run.

Its time, I think, is the 1970s, when directors like Alejandro Jodorowsky («El Topo,» «The Holy Mountain») and Nicolas Roeg («Don't Look Now,» «The Man Who Fell to Earth») made viscerally intense features with subjective visuals and sound effects and music and dissociative editing.

Oliver's extra-curricular activities are supervised by the assured hand and eye of Ayoade, the British TV comedy triple threat best known for his role in The IT Crowd, who has also been a series comedy writer - director and helmed music videos for Arctic Monkeys, Vampire Weekend and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

But Corbijn, a former music video director who made a promising debut in 2007 with «Control,» an equally elegant biopic about 1970s British band Joy Division, plays it straight, treating Jack's every move and glance with fetishistic reverence.

The director was also hurt by the sudden departure of composer Bernard Herrmann (who had scored every Hitchcock's movie since 1957) during the making of Torn Curtain, as Herrmann's music had become a key element of the success of Hitchcock's films.

The former music video director's first feature film since 2004's Birth is based on the satirical debut novel by Michel Faber, which centers on an extraterrestrial who comes to Scotland to pick up unsuspecting hitchhikers and bring them to her corporate bosses for use as meat.

The director of the new version is Craig Brewer, an accomplished filmmaker who showed a talent for syncing movies and music with Hustle & Flow and Black Snake Moan.

Mr. Crowe, who started out as a teen - age journalist writing about rock music, has arrived as a screenwriter and director with a distinctively touching, quirky style.

Maybe director Renny Harlin, who's her husband, rattled her saber enough to make her want to play the part with such pert zeal that «Cutthroat Island» seems at times like a dizzy Gilbert & Sullivan costume show without any saucy music.

June 23, 2017 • The conductor, who cut his tenure short as the New York Philharmonic's music director, finds a welcoming new home — with a glitzy new concert hall — in Hamburg, Germany.

He gets to play things a little bit smoother alongside Michael Fassbender and Maggie Gyllenhaal in director Lenny Abrahamson's forthcoming music odyssey Frank as a fledgling musician who joins an eccentric pop band.

Simmons, who played a sadistic music teacher in «Whiplash,» thanked the movie's two «boy wonders» — writer - director Damien Chazelle, 29, and costar Miles Teller, «a young actor of such maturity and brilliance that he inspired me every day to want to scream at him and hit him in the face.»

Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, who as longtime music - video directors relied on visuals for much of their careers, are back in the talking game with this weekend's tennis drama «Battle of the Sexes.»

We spoke with Lakeith Stanfield, who co-stars as Reggie, the church's music director and organist, about transforming from a non-singer to a church crooner for the film.

This is a high end analog synthesizer that will be used by composer and audio director Ludvig Forssell (who also composed music for Metal Gear Solid V).

Only once in DGA / Oscar history did only two directors from the DGA's list get Oscar nominations and of course, the one who won the DGA also won the Directing Oscar and Best Picture, Robert Wise and The Sound of Music.

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In Room (Grade: B), director Lenny Abrahamson's follow - up to the oddball music comedy Frank, Brie Larson plays a mother who's spent years locked away in a tool shed, a prisoner of the stranger who kidnapped her as a teenager.

Bodied is the new film from Joseph Kahn, a music video director who's become almost as famous for his outspoken Twitter presence as for his work.

Director Lee Unkrich («Toy Story 3») and screenwriters Adrian Molina (also a co-director) and Matthew Aldrich (who share story credit with Unkrich and Jason Katz) create a vibrant afterlife, brimming with color and light and music.

Much of the blame should be laid on longtime music director Dave Meyers, who would rather shoot fights and car crashes to look cool rather to set an atmosphere that suggests there is a surreal, existential nature to the dilemma of Jim and Grace.

All arrangements are by music director Michael Kosarin, who is joined by Jay Leonhart on bass; John Redsecker on drums; Kevin Kuhn on guitar and ukulele; and Lawrence Feldman on flute, clarinet and saxophone.

Although he became a star with three music - oriented films in quick succession — in addition to «Saturday Night Fever,» there were «Grease» and «Urban Cowboy» — Travolta was also quick to credit director Brian De Palma, who cast him in his first major film role in the Stephen King shocker «Carrie.»

First, I have to give credit to director Care, who spent much of his career as a director of music videos, for giving the film a nice look and many touches that show he is someone intimately familiar with the life and times of the era.

To celebrate the film's premiere at the Music Box Theatre, star Peyton Kennedy, producer Kishori Rajan and writer / director Anne Hamilton are accompanying the movie to Chicago and doing a Q&A for this drama - fantasy about an 11 - year - old girl who lives in a world that blends fables and reality.

Tinker around the Set Up menu and you'll find an alternate way to watch the film: a music-less cut, which is introduced by the directors aurally, who acknowledge that their movie is even darker and stranger and not so good with the music excised.

Perfecting his style of absurdist deadpan comedy, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth) introduces new rules, activities, and gruesome punishments at every turn: Matches are made based on arbitrary similarities; trial couples are assigned children; and time extensions can be earned by hunting down renegade singles who live in the woods and only listen to electronic music.

Radcliffe is a magical sidekick to Paul Dano's stranded protagonist in Swiss Army Man, the offbeat feature debut of «Daniels», a pair of unrelated writers - directors who have previously collaborated on a number of shorts, music videos, and television episodes.

He doesn't rely on an intrusive music score or shock tactics (as you'd maybe expect from a director who cut his teeth on a low - budget horror movie) but wisely pairs events down and allows the tension and suspense to build assuredly around natural characters, performances and events.

Matthew Lillard joins the ever - growing line of actors - turned - directors this weekend with Fat Kid Rules the World, an adaptation of KL Going's young adult novel about a suicidal, 296 - pound teen who finds salvation in rock music.

The movie does a terrific job of mimicking the sound and styles of the folk music era, attesting to the talent of the art directors, makeup artists, and songwriters / cast - members who created all of the original tunes featured in the film.

The cinematography was by Bernard Knowles (who had worked with Hitchcock on Sabotage) and features one of the director's trademark cameo appearances: Hitchcock and the screenwriter Charles Bennett can be seen walking past a bus that Robert Donat and Lucie Mannheim board outside a London music hall.

Alas, this bloody farce was directed by one Nash Edgerton — a stuntman and prolific music video director, and the big brother of star Joel Edgerton, who can currently be seen in the even - gnarlier spy drama Red Sparrow in the theater down the hall.

Robert Wise, the «I Can Do Any Genre» Director who brought us The Haunting, The Andromeda Strain, West Side Story, The Sound of Music, and was even editor of Citizen Kane, could also, sadly, helm -LSB-...]