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May 8, 2023 · American music is a spectrum. MICHAEL ABELS It shows the importance of telling all of our stories through our fine art, that people are waking up to the truth of that statement and the importance ...
Mar 25, 2019 · Abels spent the past 30 years writing orchestral compositions, operas and commissions of all kinds. In 2017, Abels was running the music department of a private school in Santa Monica when Peele ...
4 days ago · Abels tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King is deliberately hopeful work, containing passages of contemplative elegy and nonviolent struggle, but emerging to an uplifting, almost naive conclusion. The piece features chanting by members of the orchestra, meant to evoke the image of people marching for a cause. The piece is performed regularly on MLK ...
May 30, 2024 · Watch on. ICONOCLASM (2017) is a piece written for pianist Lara Downes’ album “For Lenny” in honor of the Leonard Bernstein centennial. Although Abels never met the legendary composer/conductor, he attended New York Philharmonic concerts with the maestro on the podium, and observed him in rehearsal. This piece is meant to capture the ...
Us (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the 2019 film of the same name directed by Jordan Peele and featured musical score composed by Michael Abels in his second feature. The soundtrack was released by Back Lot Music on March 15, 2019, [1] featuring Abels' original score, and three tracks heard in the film—"I Like That ...
Music Department. Executive. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Michael Abels is well known for his genre-defying scores for the Jordan Peele films 'Get Out,' 'Us,' and 'Nope.'. The score for 'Us' won a World Soundtrack Award, the Jerry Goldsmith Award, a Critics Choice nomination, multiple critics awards, and was named ...
Jul 22, 2022 · Abels recorded in May with a 75-piece Los Angeles orchestra and 32-voice choir. Unlike Peele’s “Get Out” and “Us,” for which Abels prepared texts to be sung, “Nope” demanded wordless ...
