The Stopping Place

Hoday!

I just finished a film score this week and it's on its way to The Sundance Film Festival. I had to compose 32 pieces of music in 48 hours to complete my end of the film. I composed the opening credits, transitional music, emotive music, and ending credits. What a great time and it was nice to use a little of my education of music composition.

The film is called The Stopping Place and is about a married couple who is newly retired and wanting to contribute to society by directing a home for people in need of human services. It's a drama/comedy and features a cast of new actors. Cheryl Hammer is he writer and overall director of operations.

You can get more info at their website: http://www.sweetpicturefilms.com/

Keep up with me on this and I'll post it on quicktime when I get the files.

Later

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Hoday,

I'd like to elaborate more on the previous two blogs. I don't intend to be disrespectful to the great composers of our past. I just want to be disrespectful to those who think their music, no matter what level of composition, is original. To think that music today is original is arrogant. So why should anyone continue to compose? Well, there is an outside chance that you can come up with something never done before. Anything can happen.


Let the young have their opportunity and watch them grow. Let the old continue to try. Keep trying to improve yourself in whatever it is that you love. But always remember the masters before you that enabled you to do what it is that you do. Study your history, and give the past its unbidden respect.

Later