To celebrate their 30th Anniversary, Varèse Sarabande is holding the mother of all composer signings at Dark Delicacies in Burbank, California. The composers attending include:

Marc Shaiman, Edward Shearmur, Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, Trevor Rabin, Don Davis, Christophe Beck, Marco Beltrami, Charles Bernstein, Mychael Danna, John Debney, Cliff Eidelman, Michael Giacchino, Mark Isham, Joel McNeely, John Ottman, Lalo Schifrin, Brian Tyler, Christopher Young, plus Varese producer Robert Townson, film composer agent Robert Kraft and artist Matthew Joseph Peak! Read more…

‘I want to be a man without any past,” says Michel Legrand, who has perhaps the longest past in showbiz. Orchestrator, pianist, conductor, composer of countless soundtracks, who else has collaborated as widely - with Miles Davis and Kiri Te Kanawa, Barbra Streisand and Jean-Luc Godard, Gene Kelly, Joseph Losey and Edith Piaf?

On his mantelpiece in his splendid classical manoir 60 miles south of Paris, four familiar gilt statuettes stand sentry. The oldest is for Windmills of My Mind, the best original song of 1965. But there are no recordings.

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From Variety, by Jon Burlingame:

“Leonard Rosenman, a two-time Oscar-winning composer who was credited with helping to modernize film music in the 1950s and ’60s, died Tuesday of a heart attack at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, Calif. He was 83.

Rosenman composed the scores for about four dozen films including the James Dean classics “East of Eden” and “Rebel Without a Cause,” as well as such science-fiction films as “Fantastic Voyage” and “Beneath the Planet of the Apes” and period pieces including “A Man Called Horse.”

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