Join us for a detailed exploration of John Williams' action music with film music scholar and educator, Mark Richards. Through several decades of study and published research Dr. Richards has uncovered an array of harmonic techniques Williams utilizes for his action writing, including the employment of more exotic scales such octatonic, hexatonic, an Hungarian minor…
We’re proud to partner with Thomas Goss of Orchestration Online on our 2023 Orchestration Challenge! This unique event offers our Los Angeles members the opportunity to have their orchestrations played by live musicians and critiqued by Thomas himself. Composers that wish to enter the challenge will be given a melody that they will orchestrate for…
We had a blast at our event on September 23rd at Laemmle Theater in North Hollywood! A huge thank you to Thomas Goss for his valuable insight, the musicians for playing beautifully, and all of the composers for completing the challenge. We had several composers who submitted pieces and the quality of work was incredibly…