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Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorDealmaking and double-crossing ran deep in the third season of HBO’s “Succession.” Power dynamics shifted as did loyalties to patriarch Logan Roy, played by Brian Cox. For composer Nicholas Britell, that meant finding a score with a lot of movement.“In season three, there’s a lot of this feeling of things being a little off-kilter,” says Britell of his approach to the score.

“We have our own superheroes here at Focus Feature and they are going to bring older filmgoers back to your movie theaters,” Lisa Bunnell, Focus Features distribution chief, promised thousands of cinema execs at the Universal presentation today.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticGerman composer and musician Klaus Schulze, a pioneer in the field of electronic music and leading figure in what came to be known as “Kraut-rock,” died Tuesday. He was 74 and the death was described in an announcement from his record label as coming “after a long disease, but all of a sudden.”Schulze was an early member of the groups Tangerine Dream, the Cosmic Joker and Ash Ra Tempel, in the beginnings of a career that grew to include more than 60 albums.Despite his illness, Schulze had new music in the pipeline.

The 'Old North' is perhaps the lesser known region of Wales when it comes to looking at Welsh history.

Natalie Holt has been set as the composer for Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi, becoming the first woman to score a live-action Star Wars project. She broke the news in an interview with Vanity Fair published on Friday, also confirming previous reports that longtime Star Wars composer John Williams will provide the new show’s main title theme.

Aberdeen chairman Dave Cormack has revealed a prominent SFA refereeing figure spoke at length to the club about decisions made in a match against Rangers.

EXCLUSIVE: Scott Bakula (Quantum Leap, NCIS: New Orleans) and Bella Thorne (Big Love, The DUFF) are among the final cast to be announced for the indie film Divinity, the latest collaboration between Steven Soderbergh and Eddie Alcazar. Cypress Hills’ DJ Muggs will serve as musical composer.

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has an exclusive track recorded for Netflix’s Russian Doll, which is set for digital release on a Seasons 1 & 2 soundtrack tomorrow via Gardener Recordings, as the show returns for its second season.

He's the man behind some of the most well-known theme tunes in showbiz, including the ear-worm that kicks off every episode of long-running cartoon favourite The Simpsons. But not that many people probably know what celebrated composer Danny Elfman looks like.

Lise Pedersen “Like an Island” (“L’îlot”), a hybrid documentary fable tinged with magical realism by Swiss director Tizian Büchi, has won the Grand Jury Prize at international documentary film festival Visions du Réel in Nyon, Switzerland. The debut feature had its world premiere at the festival, bearing testimony to the event’s reputation as a launchpad for new talent and its tradition for hybrid fiction-reality films.

Switched-on Jeanfield Swifts enjoyed their Friday night under the lights.

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has the first pair of exclusive tracks from Thomas Newman’s score for Operation Mincemeat, which is set for digital release via Lakeshore Records tomorrow, as Warner Bros. releases the film in the UK and Ireland.

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has the first pair of exclusive tracks from Sonya Belousova and Giona Ostinelli’s score for The Thing About Pam, which is set for release via Milan Records on April 15, following the airing of the NBC true-crime ratings hit’s finale.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticComposer Brian Tyler is set to receive BMI’s top honor, the Icon Award, as the BMI Film, TV and Visual Media Awards resume the tradition of in-person ceremonies with a dinner in May in Beverly Hills.Also being bestowed as part of the 38th annual awards will be a BMI Impact Award given out to six female composers and lyricists — Amy Andersson, Isolde Fair, Lolita Ritmanis, Miriam Cutler, Penka Kouneva and Starr Parodi — who collectively scored “Women Warriors: The Voices of Change,” a project about women activists.The honorary awards are in addition to dozens of competitive medallions, whose winners will be announced on the night of May 11.The resumption of BMI’s screen awards will take place in Beverly Hills one night after the BMI Pop Awards,. Earlier this week, the performing rights organization announced that Mike Stoller and Carole Bayer Sager will be receiving Icon Awards on May 10.

Katharine McPhee is a natural! One year after welcoming son Rennie, David Foster is gushing about how proud he is of his wife’s parenting.

Lise Pedersen Swiss sales agent Lightdox has added competition titles “Kapr Code” by Lucie Králová and “Garçonnières” by Céline Pernet to its lineup at international doc festival Visions du Réel, which runs April 7-17 in Nyon, Switzerland.Competing in the Burning Lights category, “Kapr Code” is described as a “documentary opera” that traces the life of controversial avant-garde Czech composer Jan Kapr (1914-1988), a Stalin Award laureate who was later banned in communist Czechoslovakia and erased from public memory. Director Lucie Králová transfers the composer’s life into musical composition, playfully mixing modern opera songs with Kapr’s never-before-seen private archive, revealing his humor, inner struggles and desire to be remembered.

Naman Ramachandran This year’s nominees for the Ivor Novello Awards — which honor outstanding songwriting and composing — include Adele, who is in the running for two awards, and Ed Sheeran, who is nominated for three Ivors.Up for four awards, Dean “Inflo” Josiah Cover is this year’s most nominated songwriter. He is recognized for his work with fellow nominees Cleo Sol and Little Simz.Named after the late Welsh actor, dramatist, singer and composer, the Ivor Novello awards have been presented since 1956.Shaznay Lewis,  Ivor Novello award winner and  judge for the Ivors, said in a statement: “It’s been a standout year for music and I am full of admiration for the 77 talented songwriters and composers we are celebrating this year.

Adele, Ed Sheeran, Dave and Dean 'Inflo' Josiah Cover lead nominations for the 2022 Ivor Novello Awards.

Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler sure seems to be in love with his partner of six years.On Sunday evening at his annualGrammy Awards viewing party benefiting his non-profit organization Janie's Fund in Los Angeles, he showed the world he is smitten with Aimee Preston, who used to be his assistant.The 74-year-old rock star planted a kiss on his 33-year-old better half while posing on the red carpet. So thrilled:Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler sure seems to be in love with his longtime partner.

Critics of Manchester City's 1-0 win over Atletico Madrid should go back to the training pitch, says matchwinner Kevin De Bruyne.

SZA has revealed that she broke her ankle rolling out of bed before attending the Grammy Awards but soldiered on only because she thought it was sprained at the time.The 32-year-old singer - bornSolána Imani Rowe - was on crutches as she hobbled while making her way to the podium to accept Best Pop Duo alongside Doja Cat for their hit Kiss Me More during the ceremony at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday.She was later seen leaving the star-studded event in a wheelchair but on Monday morning took to her Instagram Story to reveal that she actually had broken her ankle. Dedication: SZA has revealed that she broke her ankle rolling out of bed before attending the Grammy Awards but soldiered on only because she thought it was sprained at the time Worth it: The 32-year-old singer - born Solána Imani Rowe - was on crutches as she hobbled while making her way to the podium to accept Best Pop Duo alongside Doja Cat for their hit Kiss Me More during the ceremony at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on SundaySZA shared a video of a physician wrapping up her leg presumably before casting as she captioned it: 'Lmao its confirmed broken...