Like many contemporary film composers, Carl Davis has found his way to Munich, taking advantage of the Graunke Symphony’s growing reputation as a film music recording orchestra. For Carl Davis, the Graunke Symphony recorded his score for Ken Russell’s period drama, RAINBOW, and in December 1989 Davis was back recording a pair of documentaries, THE…
David Newman is a self-declared pessimist. So he didn’t expect too much when coming to Munich for the first time to conduct and record his score for a 10-minute animated short called FLOWER PLANET. The film was produced by Bob Rogers, whose earlier film, RAINBOW WAR, was a hit at Vancouver’s Expo ‘86 and will…
There’s no business like show business. It’s a business of glamour, of stars and rainbows, of money and dreams come true, but above all it’s a business, with all its rules of supply and demand. Although Hollywood has always been famous for its greed, its superlatives, its appreciation and its perception of talent has sometimes…
Eric Tomlinson at the mixing console at CTS Studios in Bayswater during the early 1960s If there is a type of man we could call an ‘English Gentleman’ the name of Eric Tomlinson would come to mind. His distinct features, pleasant voice and fine and warmhearted way of dealing with others make him a person…
How can anybody who was around the theater from the age of six, seeing all the shows that came through his city and who had a father who was a pit musician not be destined for a career as a musician with great dramatic instincts? Frank de Vol’s work for motion pictures, television, shows and…
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