Ebenezer Eferobor (Photo by Chris Meyer/Indiana University) Noni Ford speaks with composer, Jon Vickers Scoring Award winner, and former IU Cinema projectionist Ebenezer Eferobor about his new score for the Ozu classic Dragnet Girl, why he thinks like an athlete rather than a musician when he is composing, and more. Ahead of the world premiere… Read more »
Last year, Yi-Chen Chiang was selected as the recipient of the Jon Vickers Scoring Award and will be showcasing her original score for the Jean Epstein film Cœur Fidèle at the IU Cinema on November 5th. She is a recent graduate of Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music and currently works in Los Angeles as an… Read more »
Film scoring for silent film has long been something that has interested me, even before I had the pleasure of seeing films with live accompaniment at the IU Cinema. It’s a practice that seems both endless and finite in its possibilities. You can create something that’s in the pocket of the era the film was… Read more »
Guest post by Alyssa Brooks, IU Cinema’s Marketing and Programming Coordinator. In 2019, Jacobs School of Music student Patrick Holcomb was awarded the fifth Jon Vickers Scoring Award, a commission to compose a new orchestral score for a silent film. Holcomb’s score for Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life will premiere Saturday, April 17. This… Read more »
Like a lot of people who love music and cinema, I was so sad to hear about the death of legendary composer Ennio Morricone. Even though he died at the age of 91, the idea of the death of someone who had created so many of the scores that I loved still hurt. As I… Read more »
Guest post by Alyssa Brooks, IU Cinema’s Events and Operations Assistant, and Caitlyn Stevens, the Cinema’s Social Media Specialist and Marketing & Engagement Assistant. At yesterday’s First Thursdays Festival, IU Cinema was celebrating The Art of the Film Score in honor of today’s Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Program and IU Cinema’s long-standing commitment to live music events…. Read more »