film music

This week’s Dress Circle (6/8 7:00 p.m.) is a return to one of our favorite topics, “Involuntary Musical Imagery” otherwise known as stuck song syndrome, sticky music, and cognitive itch, or, as the Germans call them, orhwurm. Of course, their earworms. Those pesky songs that you love to hate. You hear them, and they stay with you for a very long time afterwards.

You know that we can’t pass up some “calendar art,” and on this week’s Dress Circle (5/11 7:00 p.m.), we’ve held true to our urges and compiled a show of songs about “mother” from the musicals for Mother’s Day.

The theme for this week’s Dress Circle (3/16 7:00 p.m.) came about as we were researching ideas for future programs. We noticed that almost all musicals feature songs where someone is leaving, telling someone else to leave, hinting someone else should leave, or is caught between leaving and staying. We came up with a list long enough to do several programs, so we thought we’d start this week with songs “Saying Goodbye or Not.”

In the past, we’ve “marched” into March, but we’ve decided to “Parade into March” on this week’s Dress Circle (3/9 7:00 p.m.) with songs from a variety of musicals from stage and screen. We’ve done a program of parades before, but this time, the titles must contain the word “parade.”

Paul J. Smith wrote or orchestrated over 55 scores for animated films and 25 live action projects for The Walt Disney Studios. We're going to introduce you to the man whose music you probably already know through three of his scores for animated features and three from live-action films.

Bill & Karrin are - for a second program- saving you a seat at the theater for an hour of great music for film

Bill & Karrin are saving you a seat at the theater for an hour of great music for film.

A Tempo this Saturday (5/27 at 7 pm) features a conversation with Michael Abels about writing and arranging music for the film Chevalier and sharing this year's Pulitzer Prize for Music with Rhiannon Giddens for their opera, Omar.