Sentences with phrase «than any other film composer»

Not exact matches

That's pretty prolific for someone who offers up quality work each and every time out, rather than coasting on simplicity like a few other hard - working film music composers out there.

Levinson always picks the perfect composer for each film he scores rather than rigidly sticking with the same one, and the roster of composers with whom he has worked is a virtual who's who of the film music business - Alex North, Bruce Broughton, John Williams, Randy Newman, Ennio Morricone, Hans Zimmer, Christopher Young, and others.

Of course, there is far more to Powell's music than drum loops, and the way he combines modern electronics and synths with an orchestra is as impressive as any other film composer.

You never quite know what you're going to get from Howard — I don't think there's ever been another major film composer who has gone through such a wide range of styles (of course lots of other film composers have written in a wide range of styles, but not like Howard, with no real sign of consistency of individual voice between them) and such a wide range of quality, with his music as likely to be dull and sometimes worse than that as it is to be compositionally and emotionally soaring and inspired.

Indeed, if the film gave us nothing other than a stellar introduction to the astonishing Debussy reworkings of Japanese electronica composer Isao Tomita (you better believe he is all up in my Spotify right this second), that would have been a great deal.

Among the highlights will be the social practice artist Theaster Gates singing his own rendition of «God Bless America,» «The Battle Hymn of the Republic» and other traditional patriotic tunes; the filmmaker Arthur Jafa presenting his lauded short movie about racism, «Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death»; the artist Shirin Neshat showing films about violence against women; the composer David Lang performing and also speaking about «danger and honesty in both pop and classical music»; the poet Elizabeth Alexander reading her own work; and the artist Hank Willis Thomas presenting and discussing his film «A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else» (2014) on James Baldwin.