Masterworks Broadway to record Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Encores! cast)

Masterworks Broadway will release the Encores! cast recording of the classic musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Starring Megan Hilty – Sony recording artist and star of NBC’s Smash

Masterworks Broadway will release the Encores! cast recording of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The album will be recorded in New York City this week, and will feature  “A Little Girl From Little Rock,” “Bye Bye Baby,” and of course, the classic made famous by Marilyn Monroe, “Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend.”

Starring as Lorelei Lee is Sony recording artist and star of NBC’s hit series Smash – Megan Hilty. The cast also includes Rachel York as Dorothy, Clarke Thorell as Gus, Aaron Lazar as Henry plus Simon Jones, Stephen R. Buntrock, Phillip Attmore and Jared Grimes. Hilty is in the process of recording her first solo album for Sony Masterworks/Columbia Records which will come out in early 2013.
The first stage version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes debuted on Broadway in 1926 adapted from the novel by Anita Loos. The musical version, featuring music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Leo Robin and book by Loos and Joseph Fields, debuted at the Ziegfeld Theatre on December 8, 1949, making a star of Carol Channing and eventually ran for 740 performances.  It was made into a hit 1953 film by director Howard Hawks and starred Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell. The recent critically acclaimed Encores! production ran May 9 to May 13, 2012 at New York’s City Center.

 

THE ALCHEMIST TO RELEASE “RUSSIAN ROULETTE” ON DECON JULY 17TH

30-TRACK, NON-STOP BEAT/RAP COLLAGE TO FEATURE SCHOOLBOY Q, ACTION BRONSON, MR. MUTHAFUCKIN’ EXQUIRE, DANNY BROWN, ROC MARCIANO, AND MANY MORE

Heavy lidded, conceptual ambition personified, Los Angeles producer The Alchemist has announced his next project, Russian Roulette, dropping on record label/production house/idea shop Decon on July 17th. A collection of 30 tracks woven into a tapestry of insanely obscure samples and jaw-dropping verses from the top names of indie-rap’s recent resurgence (Danny Brown, Schoolboy Q, Action Bronson, Evidence, Roc Marciano, Mr. Motherfuckin’ eXquire,  Boldy James, and more) The Alchemist creates a cinematic musical experience interwoven through a continuous soundscape demonstrating the vast array of his musical palette.

The latest notch in the belt of one of rap music’s most prolific enablers, Russian Roulette is the third official release this year from the producer responsible for hits from Rick Ross, Eminem, Mobb Deep, and myriad others. Gangrene, his collaborative project with Oh No, generated critical praise in January for Vodka & Ayahuaska, their grimy, prismatic shroom-bap opus, and his ongoing Rapper’s Best Friend series continues to serve instrumentals to aspiring spitters regularly. Not content with merely placing beats on records by rap’s elite and remaining in the shadows, 2012 is proving to be the year that The Alchemist is separating himself from the crowded pack of beat smiths.

RUSSIAN ROULETTE TRACK LISTING:

1. Soundcheck
2. Apollo’s Last Stand feat. Ag Da Coroner
3. Crushed Kremlin feat. Mayhem Lauren
4. Decisions Over Veal Orloff feat. Action Bronson
5. Learned by Listening
6. Training Montage – Getting Stronger
7. Ivan’s Workout Plan
8. Never Grow Up feat. Evidence
9. The Turning Point feat. Roc Marciano
10. Live From Dynamo Stadium 2
11. Don Seymour’s Theme feat. Midaz
12. Before The Fight Prelude
13. Adrian’s Words – Champion Song
14. Flight Of The Bumblebee
15. Kalashnekov Guns feat. Guilty Simpson
16. Fight Confirmation feat. Danny Brown and Schoolboy Q
17. Press Conference Prelude
18. Freakish Strength
19. Junkyard Fight Scene feat. DRDC
20. Oleg’s Flight feat. Fashawn
21. Moscow Mornings – Sunrise
22. Moscow Evenings – Sunset
23. The Kosmos Pt 1 – Liftoff feat. Chuuwee
24. The Kosmos Pt 2 – Power Glove feat. Boldy James
25. The Kosmos Pt 3 – In Orbit
26. The Kosmos Pt 4 – Moon Probe feat. Big Twinz
27. The Kosmos Pt 5 – 1st Contact – The Chase
28. The Kosmos Pt 6 – Life On Another Planet feat. Willie The Kid
29. The Kosmos Pt 7 – The Explanation feat. Mr. Motherfucking Exquire
30. The Kosmos Pt 8 – Return To Earth Outro Master

THE ALCHEMIST ON TWITTER:

http://twitter.com/#!/Alchemist

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DECON OFFICIAL WEBSITE:

http://www.deconrecords.com/

 

Ben Folds Five Invites Fans to Participate in the Promotion & Release of Their New Album While Raising Awareness For Music Education & Therapy

New York City, New York – May 11, 2012 – Alt-rock trio Ben Folds Five have launched an interactive pre-sale campaign on PledgeMusic to enable fans to participate in the release of their forthcoming album. Fans will receive exclusive videos, tracks, photos and blogs and will be the first to receive the new album. Throughout the campaign, Ben Folds Five will be raising awareness and funding for Music Education and Music Therapy through PledgeMusic’s unique system which offers a percentage of funds collected by an artist to a charity of their choosing.

PledgeMusic is a full-service company offering a direct-to-fan system that maximizes an artist’s exposure, getting their music out to the world while engaging fans through exclusives and a level of backstage access they wouldn’t otherwise receive. Launched in 2009 by independent artist and social media guru Benji Rogers, PledgeMusic works with a wide range of artists from acts just starting out to more well-known bands on labels. Successful campaigns include Rachael Yamagata, Rhett Miller, The Libertines, Juliana Hatfield, Luscious Jackson, David Lynch Foundation Music, The Damnwells, Funeral For A Friend, Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s, Madi Diaz, The Lumineers, Kopecky Family Band and more, with over 600 successful campaigns launched since its inception. The platform has generated five Top 40 albums, and is currently launching and releasing 2 albums per day.

Ben Folds Five has an important relationship with their fans and PledgeMusic is dedicated to helping to maximize this connection through their campaigns. Says Ben Folds himself from the band’s project updates, “Most exciting to me is the potential to utilize the talent of our fan base. My audience has always been a talented buncha mothers. The “Ahs” in our song “Not The Same’ originally came spontaneously from our audience. “Rock This Bitch” was hollered by some dude in Chicago as was “Do It Anyway”. It was our fans who insisted we put together The Bens. I’ve always had that kind of relationship with the smart asses who listen to my music…some of my favorite versions of my songs have been done by fans, and it sometimes hurts my feelings when it’s better. Bastards.”

PledgeMusic provides a sophisticated but user-friendly platform through advanced web and mobile technology to target fans through websites, fansites, Facebook and other networks, creating the thinnest skin possible between the artist and the fan. Also unique to PledgeMusic is its ability to create campaigns in different languages and collect funds in different currencies, allowing the artist to have access to fans across the world.

To Pledge on the Ben Folds Five campaign, please visit:
www.pledgemusic.com/projects/benfoldsfive

For more on PledgeMusic, please visit:
www.pledgemusic.com

 

MASTERWORKS BROADWAY RELEASES THE NEW BROADWAY CAST RECORDING OF “EVITA THE COMPLETE RECORDING” AVAILABLE JUNE 26, 2012

Album Features Grammy Award-Winning Superstar Ricky Martin,
Olivier Award Winner Elena Roger and Tony Award Winner Michael Cerveris

MASTERWORKS BROADWAY is pleased to announce the release of the complete New Broadway Cast Recording of Evita, the first complete English language stage recording of the show since the original 1979 Broadway cast album.   The two-CD set, produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Nigel Wright, with Tim Rice as Executive Producer, will be released on June 26, 2012. Visit MasterworksBroadway.com for more information as it develops.

Scott Sanders, Co-Producer of the Broadway production, says: “The all new Broadway production of EVITA is already a huge hit.  There is a genuine hunger from our audience members – expressed at the theatre merchandise stands, on the show’s website and through its social media outlets – for us to deliver a complete recording of this beloved show and its score. We’re proud and excited to partner with Masterworks Broadway to release an historic two-CD event recording of Evita.”

Producers Hal Luftig and Scott Sanders present the first new production of the seven-time Tony Award-winning Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musical EVITA, since it debuted on Broadway over 30 years ago. The production stars Grammy-winning international pop icon Ricky Martin as Che, Olivier Award-winning Argentinean actress Elena Roger making her Broadway debut as Eva Perón—a role that earned her critical acclaim in the 2006 production in London‘s West End—and Tony Award-winner Michael Cerveris as Juan Perón. The cast also features Max von Essen as Magaldi and Rachel Potter as the Mistress. Directed by Tony and Olivier Award-winner Michael Grandage and choreographed by Tony Award-winner Rob Ashford, EVITA opened April 5, 2012 at The Marquis Theatre to rave reviews.
The creative team includes Tony Award-winning Scenic and Costume Designer Christopher Oram (Red), Tony Award-winning Lighting Designer Neil Austin (Red), Olivier Award-winning Sound Designer Mick Potter (Woman In White), Wig and Hair Designer Richard Mawbey (Frost/Nixon), Projection Designer Zachary Borovay (Rock of Ages), and Music Supervisor/Director Kristen Blodgette (The Phantom of the Opera), Orchestrations are by Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Cullen (Sunset Boulevard), and dance arrangements are by David Chase (Billy Elliot).

EVITA tells Eva Peron’s passionate and tragic story through Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s most dazzling and beloved score, including “Don‘t Cry for Me Argentina,” “Another Suitcase in Another Hall” and “High Flying Adored,” together with “You Must Love Me,” the Oscar-winning hit from the film EVITA.

After researching the life of Eva Perón for many years, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber released EVITA in 1976 as a concept album with Julie Covington as Evita and it became a world-wide hit. Soon after, the production debuted on stage in London’s West End starring Elaine Paige and directed by Hal Prince. The production transferred to Broadway and opened in 1979 starring Patti LuPone, who went on to win one of the seven 1980 Tony Awards the show earned. A major 1996 film of the musical was made starring Madonna as Evita and Antonio Banderas as Ché. Michael Grandage‘s production of EVITA, which opened in 2006, took London by storm and garnered critical acclaim for the show and its leading lady, Elena Roger.

Masterworks Broadway is a label of Sony Masterworks.  For email updates and information on Masterworks Broadway please visit www.masterworksbroadway.com.  For more information on the musical, please visit www.evitaonbroadway.com/.

 

DANNY ELFMAN’S DARK SHADOWS ORIGINAL SCORE MAY 8

Film Marks 14th Collaboration Between Composer Danny Elfman And Director Tim Burton

(April 17, 2012 – Los Angeles, CA) – WaterTower Music will release Dark Shadows – Original Score digitally and in stores on May 8, 2012. The album features original music by Grammy Award-winning and four-time Oscar®-nominated composer Danny Elfman, which is featured in director Tim Burton’s new gothic comedy Dark Shadows.

For more than 25 years, Burton and Elfman have collaborated on some of the cinema’s most beloved and recognizable films and soundtracks, including Big Fish, for which Elfman received an Oscar® nomination; Beetlejuice; Batman; Edward Scissorhands; Sleepy Hollow; Corpse Bride; and, more recently, Alice in Wonderland.

“Tim had some specific ideas about the music on Dark Shadows,” says Elfman. “I knew that the bigger dramatic scenes would be played in a rather grand theatrical manner, but the real treat was tapping into the retro pallet Tim had imagined. He wanted something that payed homage to both the original TV series and other ’70s horror genres as well. For that we kept it minimal, eerie, and atmospheric with only electronics and a few solo instruments carrying the melodies.”

Elfman has also received Oscar® nominations for his scores for Barry Sonnenfeld’s Men in Black, and Gus Van Sant’s Good Will Hunting and Milk. Movie audiences worldwide have also heard Danny Elfman’s unique sound and style in some 80 film scores, including Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man; Brian De Palma’s Mission: Impossible; Martin Brest’s Midnight Run; Jon Amiel’s Sommersby; the Hughes Brothers’ Dead Presidents; Rob Marshall’s Academy Award-winning Chicago; and Shawn Levy’s Real Steel.

In the year 1750, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet—or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy…until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin and the dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets.

Warner Bros. Pictures, in association with Village Roadshow Pictures, presents an Infinitum Nihil/GK Films/Zanuck Company production, a Tim Burton Film Dark Shadows in theaters and IMAX on May 11, 2012. “Dark Shadows” stars Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Chloe Grace Moretz, Bella Heathcote and Gully McGrath.
The Dark Shadows — Original Score on WaterTower Music will be available digitally and in stores on May 8, 2012; and on the same date, WaterTower Music will also be releasing the Dark Shadows –Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, containing eleven songs from the film.

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www.darkshadowsmovie.com

 

Masterworks Broadway To Release New Cast Album of Evita

“A LARGE-SCALE, LAVISH, MODERN MASTERPIECE”
(New York Post)

MASTERWORKS BROADWAY SIGNS
THE NEW BROADWAY CAST RECORDING OF EVITA

RECORDING AVAILABLE JUNE 19, 2012

Album Features Grammy Award-Winning Superstar Ricky Martin,
Olivier Award Winner Elena Roger and Tony Award Winner Michael Cerveris

MASTERWORKS BROADWAY proudly announces the signing of the New Broadway Cast Recording of Evita. The album will be recorded in April in anticipation of a June 19th 2012 release and is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com. Visit MasterworksBroadway.com for more information as it develops.

Producers Hal Luftig and Scott Sanders present the first new production of the seven-time Tony Award-winning Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musical EVITA, since it debuted on Broadway over 30 years ago. The production stars Grammy-winning international pop icon Ricky Martin as Che, Olivier Award-winning Argentinean actress Elena Roger making her Broadway debut as Eva Perón—a role that earned her critical acclaim in the 2006 production in London‘s West End—and Tony Award-winner Michael Cerveris as Juan Perón. The cast also features Max von Essen as Magaldi and Rachel Potter as the Mistress. Directed by Tony and Olivier Award-winner Michael Grandage and choreographed by Tony Award-winner Rob Ashford, EVITA opened April 5, 2012 at The Marquis Theatre to rave reviews.

The creative team includes Tony Award-winning Scenic and Costume Designer Christopher Oram (Red), Tony Award-winning Lighting Designer Neil Austin (Red), Olivier Award-winning Sound Designer Mick Potter (Woman In White), Wig and Hair Designer Richard Mawbey (Frost/Nixon), Projection Designer Zachary Borovay (Rock of Ages), and Music Supervisor/Director Kristen Blodgette (The Phantom of the Opera), Orchestrations are by Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Cullen (Sunset Boulevard), and dance arrangements are by David Chase (Billy Elliot).

EVITA tells Eva Peron’s passionate and tragic story through Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s most dazzling and beloved score, including “Don‘t Cry for Me Argentina,” “Another Suitcase in Another Hall” and “High Flying Adored,” together with “You Must Love Me,” the Oscar-winning hit from the film EVITA.

After researching the life of Eva Perón for many years, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber released EVITA in 1976 as a concept album with Julie Covington as Evita and it became a world-wide hit. Soon after, the production debuted on stage in London’s West End starring Elaine Paige and directed by Hal Prince. The production transferred to Broadway and opened in 1979 starring Patti LuPone, who went on to win one of the seven 1980 Tony Awards the show earned. A major 1996 film of the musical was made starring Madonna as Evita and Antonio Banderas as Ché. Michael Grandage‘s production of EVITA, which opened in 2006, took London by storm and garnered critical acclaim for the show and its leading lady, Elena Roger.

Masterworks Broadway is a label of Sony Masterworks. For email updates and information on Masterworks Broadway please visit www.masterworksbroadway.com. For more information on the musical, please visit www.evitaonbroadway.com/.

 

BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA TO SPOTLIGHT MEMORIAL PLAQUE IN HONOR OF THE MUSICIANS WHO DROWNED WHILE STILL PLAYING AS THE TITANIC WENT DOWN; TRIBUTE TO TAKE PLACE AT SYMPHONY HALL DURING PERFORMANCES APRIL 12-14

ON APRIL 26, 1912, BOSTON SYMPHONY WAS THE FIRST TO DO A MUSICAL TRIBUTE
IN HONOR OF THE LIVES LOST

In conjunction with this weekend’s commemorations of the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, the Boston Symphony will spotlight a memorial plaque in honor of the musicians who drowned while still playing (famously alleged as “Nearer, My God, to Thee”); the BSO tribute will take place during performances at Symphony Hall April 12-14.  Boston philanthropist and arts patron Isabella Stewart Gardner, a close friend of BSO founder Henry Lee Higginson, was so moved by the story of the musicians who continued to play while the ship was sinking that she commissioned a marble plaque in their memory. Though the musicians were not members of the BSO—nor were any of them connected to Boston (all Europeans, they were employed through a company out of Liverpool)—the poignant plaque was hung in the main hallway of Symphony Hall, where it remains today, in honor of their bravery.  A press clipping from the Boston Post dated September 23, 1912, describes the plaque, and states that the donor preferred to remain anonymous. It wasn’t until many years later that her identity was revealed.

The BSO is also presumed to be the first institution to do a musical tribute honoring the lives lost (this fact was referred to in a news clipping a day after the tribute), which took place on April 26, 1912  (see program page here). The BSO performed the Funeral March from Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony, Symphony No. 3, under the direction of Max Fiedler.

From April 12 through 14, the Boston Symphony will place flowers near the plaque, and a display case in the main hall of Symphony Hall will offer information about the installation of the plaque and the BSO’s musical tribute.

The full text of the plaque is:

In Memory of the Devoted Musicians

Wallace Henry Hartley, bandmaster
John Frederick Preston Clark
Percy Cornelius Taylor
John Wesley Woodward
W. Theodore Brailey
John Law Hume
George Krins
Roger Bricoux

Who were drowned still playing as the Titanic went down April 15, 1912

 

LIZA MINNELLI’S LEGENDARY LIVE AT THE WINTER GARDEN CONCERT AVAILABLE FROM MASTERWORKS BROADWAY

CD and Digital Releases Available For The First Time

Masterworks Broadway releases Liza Minnelli’s historic concert album Legends Of Broadway: Liza Minnelli Live At The Winter Garden.  The long-awaited Live At The Winter Garden recording is derived from the original master engineered by Phil Ramone. The concert recording includes performances from Minnelli’s truly legendary Broadway show in January 1974 as well as three recently discovered live bonus tracks that were recorded but not included on the original LP, including Stevie Wonder’s “You and I” and standards “It Had to Be You” and “My Shining Hour.”

The recording will be available for purchase on CD and digital download exclusively via www.MasterworksBroadway.com April 3, 2012.  The album will be available from all retailers and digital service providers on May 8, 2012.

The story behind the recording is an interesting one.  The 27-year-old dynamo had sold out an entire month’s run of 24 concerts in 36 hours, setting a house record for the Winter Garden Theater.  The show itself, which opened on January 6, was simply titled Liza. The album Liza Minnelli Live At The Winter Garden was quickly released by Columbia Records in April, but had to be withdrawn from the market due to contractual conflicts over her performance of songs from the Cabaret film score, which were available on the then-current soundtrack album. Only pirated versions of the album have circulated since.  This is the first time that the entire show will come out on CD and digital release.

Like Cabaret, Liza was directed by Bob Fosse, who choreographed it with Ron Lewis. Marvin Hamlisch served as musical director, and the celebrated songwriting team of John Kander and Fred Ebb supplied Minnelli with new songs for the shows.

“The thing about doing a show like Liza is that every song means something,” Minnelli reflects. “Fred and John were so brilliant at building a show, plus I had Marvin, so we tried all kinds of different rundowns and finally came up with what you hear on the album, and thank God it worked! But you keep trying, and don’t get satisfied with anything but the best.”

She pauses, then concludes: “It brings back so many memories. I always feel like I’ve never done anything. It’s true! So to have this come out, and to be reminded of how it was and how it was received, it’s just lovely!”

The Liza shows marked a triumphant return to Broadway for Minnelli.  She was already a veteran of the Great White Way and had won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 1965 for Flora the Red Menace.  These shows also followed a remarkable rush of career milestones including her Oscar in 1973 for her performance in Cabaret and her Emmy that year for her Liza With a Z TV special.

Opening night guests for Liza included her father Vincente Minnelli and sister Lorna Luft, Halston, Diane Von Furstenberg, Neil Simon, New York’s Mayor Abe Beame, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Dudley Moore, Kay Thompson, Ben Vereen and Kitty Carlisle Hart. The after-party was held at The Rainbow Grill in Rockefeller Center, and Minnelli was later rewarded with a Special Tony Award for “adding luster to the Broadway season.”

“It was thrilling,” Minnelli recalls. “I remember opening night with Bobby [Fosse] and Marvin [Hamlisch] and all the people I looked up to and went to because they were the best. And it was so exciting to go to that theater every night and walk through that stage door and up the stairs and see how excited everybody else was, because it really was a new thing to do a Broadway concert show.”

Minnelli would do similar concert show runs in New York at Radio City Music Hall and twice at Carnegie Hall.

Track listing:

1 Overture
Liza With A “Z”
Ring Them Bells
I Can See Clearly Now
Maybe This Time
Cabaret
2 If You Could Read My Mind/Come Back To Me
3 Shine On Harvest Moon
4 Exactly Like Me
5 The Circle
6 More Than You Know
7 I’m One Of The Smart Ones
8 Natural Man
9 I Can See Clearly Now
10 And I In My Chair (Et Moi Dans Mon Coin)
11 There Is A Time (Le Temps)
12 Quiet Thing
13 Anywhere You Are/ I Believe You
14 Cabaret Medley
Curtain Bows / Cabaret
15 You and I (Bonus Track)
16 It Had to Be You (Bonus Track)
17 My Shining Hour (Bonus Track)

 

Hans Zimmer’s All-Star Academy Awards® Band Releases “The 84th Academy Awards – Celebrate the Music” Collection on the iTunes Store

Beverly Hills, CA – A new compilation of music centered around Academy Award®-winning composer Hans Zimmer’s theme for this year’s Oscar® telecast is now available on the iTunes Store. Titled “The 84th Academy Awards – Celebrate the Music,” the collection includes the show’s musical theme plus six unique, inventive interpretations of the theme by other artists, and the “In Memoriam” choral rendition of “What a Wonderful World.”

In addition to both of the 84th Academy Awards music directors – Zimmer and musician/producer/composer Pharrell Williams (of The Neptunes) – the extraordinary group of international artists who contributed their talents includes: percussionist/drummer/composer Sheila E.; Grammy®-winning double bass player/singer Esperanza Spalding; guitarist/composer Stephane Wrembel (“Midnight in Paris”); three-time Oscar-winning composer Giorgio Moroder; two-time Oscar winning composer/musician A.R. Rahman; violin/cello virtuosi Ann Marie Calhoun and Martin Tillman; Dutch hit remixer/composer/electronic musician Junkie XL; and multiple Grammy-winning British musician/producer Peter Asher.

Each musician created their own piece of music inspired by or derived from Zimmer’s basic thematic framework. The compilation of these unique interpretations of the theme is available for download now at iTunes.com/oscars.

The credits and details of the tracks are as follows:

The 84th Academy Awards – Celebrate the Music

“Celebrate the Oscars”
[Written by Hans Zimmer]

Stephane Wrembel – Guitar solo
Sheila E. – Percussion
Ann Marie Calhoun – Violin
Martin Tillman – Cello
Produced by Hans Zimmer

“It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got Pharrell”
[Written by Pharrell Williams and Hans Zimmer]

Recorded by Mike Larson for i am OTHER entertainment at Circle House Studios, Miami, FL.
Assisted by Matthew Desrameaux and Gennaro Schiano. Digital Editing and Arrangement by Mike Larson.
Produced by Pharrell Williams for The Neptunes

“Sunrise on Bleecker Street”
[Written by Esperanza Spalding and Hans Zimmer]

Esperanza Spalding – double bass and vocal
J.R. Robinson – Drums
Satnam Ramgotra – Percussion and Human Beatbox
Dan Higgins – Soprano Saxophone
Ann Marie Calhoun – Violin
George Doering – Guitar
Randy Kerber – Keyboard
Arranged by Esperanza Spalding
Produced by Peter Asher

“Giorgio’s New Dancing Shoes”
[Written by Giorgio Moroder and Hans Zimmer]

Arranged by Giorgio Moroder
Special Thanks: Sheila E. and Junkie XL
Produced by Giorgio Moroder

“D_Generation”
[Written by Junkie XL and Hans Zimmer]

Arranged and remixed by Junkie XL @ the Computer Hell Cabin Santa Monica
Produced by Junkie XL

“Bump The E.”
[Written by Sheila E. and Hans Zimmer]

Featuring Sheila E.
Arranged and remixed by Sheila E.
All drums and percussion by Sheila E.
Engineer: Sir Mychael Davison
Recorded at at Blue 52 Studios, Sherman Oaks, CA
Production & Studio Manager: Raymond Mckinley
Assistant: Ia Cheveres
Managers: Lynn Mabry & Gilbert Davison Avid, Brian Carter
Produced by Sheila E.

“Oscar Sangamam”
[Written by A.R. Rahman and Hans Zimmer]

Featuring A.R. Rahman on vocal
Arranged by A. R. Rahman
Recorded at Panchathan Hollywood Studios and AM Studios
Sound Engineers: Deepak Pa, Srinidhi Suresh, Tony Joy and Kevin Doucette
Vocals, Harpejji and Continuum Fingerboard: A.R. Rahman
Produced by A. R. Rahman

“What a Wonderful World”
[George David Weiss & Bob Thiele – Range Road Music Inc. & Quartet Music Inc. – George David Weiss, Assigned to Abilene Music Inc.]

Sung by Esperanza Spalding with the Southern California Children’s Chorus conducted by Carol Aspling
Additional choir – The KMMusic Conservatory Chamber Choir (recorded at Yashraj Studios, Mumbai, India)
Additional singers – Sally Stevens, Teri Koide, Susie Logan, Donna Medine, Suzanne Waters, Gerald White, Fletcher Sheridan, Eric Bradley and Peter Asher
Arranged by Nick Glennie-Smith
Produced by Hans Zimmer and Peter Asher

Album Produced by: Peter Asher

Music Supervisor: Bob Badami
Musical Director: Nick Glennie-Smith
Music Production Services: Steven Kofsky
Associate Music Producer: Andrew Zack
Technical Consultant: Chuck Choi
Music Editor: Jessica Weiss
Sound Engineers: Slamm Andrews, Daniel Kresco and Satoshi Noguchi
Album Mixed By: Daniel Kresco
Assistant Engineer: Christian Wenger
Orchestrators: Bruce Fowler and Rick Giovinazzo
Copyist: Booker White
Digital Instrument Design: Mark Wherry
Sample Library Development: Cladius Bruese, Sam Estes and Michael Hobe

Album Mastered by: Pat Sullivan of Bernie Grundman Mastering

Studio: Remote Control Productions, Santa Monica, California
2012

 

IN THE U.S., THE “GLEE” CAST IS A TOP 10-SELLING DIGITAL ARTIST OF ALL TIME

(New York, NY; Columbia Records; February 28, 2012) FOX’S smash hit GLEE has reached another amazing milestone this week: music performed by the show’s cast ranks No. 8 in the Top 10-selling digital U.S. artists of all time, according to SoundScan. With over 32 million GLEE songs digitally downloaded in the U.S., the show’s stellar cast is in the company of pop icons Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry and Black Eyed Peas.

 

Most recently, the GLEE cast’s versions of Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” (45,292 tracks sold to date), Michael Jackson’s “Bad” (48,766 tracks sold to date)  and “Smooth Criminal” (161,495 tracks sold to date) have been added to GLEE’s groundbreaking record for most charted songs by a single act in the Billboard Hot 100 chart history. These standout tracks bring the GLEE cast’s grand total of Hot 100 entries to 193, surpassing Elvis Presley, The Beatles and James Brown.

 

From the anthem hit “Don’t Stop Believin’” to the iconic rendition of “Vogue” to the pop phenomenon “Teenage Dream,” GLEE has sold more than 42 million songs and over 12 million albums worldwide. GLEE scored three consecutive No. 1 releases with “Glee: The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers,” “Glee: The Music, The Power of Madonna” and “Glee: The Music, Journey To Regionals.” The RIAA has certified Platinum (sales in excess of one million units) “Glee: The Music, Volume 1” and “Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album”; and certified Gold (sales in excess of 500,000 units) “Glee: The Music, Volume 2,” “Glee: The Music, Volume 3” and “Glee: The Music, Volume 4,” the latter of which also received a Grammy nomination for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media.

 

GLEE returns with all-new episodes on Tuesday, April 10 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on Fox.

 

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