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Performing rights organization Broadcast Music, Inc. is presenting its career achievement laurel, the BMI Icon Award, to composer James Newton Howard at its 2016 Film & Television Awards (May 11) at…
The COLCOA French Film Festival (April 18-26) is celebrating its 20th year with its most ambitious program yet, bolstered by it's first-ever TV competition, four world premieres, a special tribute to…
At around midpoint in her show at the Orpheum Theatre on Friday, the first of a two-night stint at the refurbished movie palace in downtown L.A., the audience spontaneously peppered Joanna Newsom…
At a newly stripped-down American Society for Composers, Authors and Publishers Screen Music Awards, its 31st annual, at the Beverly Hilton's International Ballroom on Thursday night, Craig Armstrong…
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For its 16th edition, the World Soundtrack Awards will introduce a new award: Best Original Score for Television Series & Miniseries, to be featured side by side with the program's traditional…
Keith Emerson, the flamboyant, English prog-rock pioneer who rose to fame as the keyboardist for supergroup Emerson, Lake & Palmer in the '70s, died in Santa Monica on Thursday at age 71. Although…
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