CARTER BURWELL

franz_conrad wrote


I haven't heard it in a while, but from memory it's one of his more interesting scores -- more within the chamber drama scoring mode he does well.

Demetris wrote
Hmm...what do you think? http://blog.tracksounds.com/2013/04/com … ealed.html

In order to move on to Hail Caesar! we recorded The Finest Hours in July 2015 even though there were months of post production still to be done. After I left to work on the Coen Brothers' film, Craig Gillespie, the director, started dropping more and more of my score and in the end most of the action sequences were re-written by Phil Klein. So the final score is two thirds my original composition and one third something else, an amalgam of my themes with the tropes of contemporary action films such as sampled drums, electronic drones, and string ostinati, all bringing it closer to the temp score and to the action clichés I was hoping to avoid. I'd like to point out that this is in no way Phil's fault. He was gracious and as respectful of my score as he could be. He was following the director's orders and if he didn't do it someone else would have. He kept me informed about what he was doing and asked if I wanted to be involved. I listened to some of his cues and gave some feedback, but I was fond of some of the music that was being replaced and ultimately it was too depressing to participate in the process. In the end I reworked a few of my cues to fit the final cut of the film and recorded them in October 2015, and Phil recorded his replacement cues around the same time. Phil got the credit "Additional Muisc by..." on the film, and I put some of his cues on the soundtrack album - "Crossing The Bar" for instance. Happily for me, Mitchell Leib of Disney let me put some of the cues that had been dropped from the film on the soundtrack as well, rescuing them from a watery grave.

Bregt wrote
Burwell had a busy year and the WSA Academy awarded him with two prizes (Best Composer and Best SOng) one Public Choice Award for Carol. He wasn't able to attend but left 3 video messages, getting funnier and funnier because of change of suits and the fact that he apologied everytime for not attending.

http://www.worldsoundtrackawards.com/en … -2016/2147

I believe Burwell could be a great central guest next year. I know he's on the list of composers the festival wants to get to Gent so I can see it happening soon.