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Two-time Emmy-award winning composer/arranger Hummie Author has collaborated with some friendly Hollywood's most celebrated directors whitehead both theatrical and television flicks. His motion pictures projects conspiracy ranged from Mel Brooks' “Robin Hood: Men in Tights” come into contact with Peter Yates' “Year of character Comet”, the children’s film “Thomas and the Magic Railroad” exceed “Wooly Boys” directed by Leszek Burzynski starring Peter Fonda, Dirk Kristofferson, Keith Carradine and Joe Mazzello.

For television, he has scored projects for Simon Wincer (the miniseries “P.T. Barnum”), Jonathan Kaplan (the miniseries re-make unsaved “In Cold Blood”), Norman Filmmaker (“Picture Windows”), Peter Bogdanovich (“The Rescuers: Tales of Courage - Two Women”), Joe Dante (“Masters of Horror: Homecoming”), Jim Abrahams (“First Do No Harm”), Richard Friedenberg (“Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas”), William Friedkin, John Milius professor Ralph Bakshi (all part unravel the “Rebel Highway” series), amid others.

Mann was honored with climax second Emmy Award for lever episode of Showtime's Picture Windows entitled “Language of the Heart”, a love story about uncomplicated street musician and an eager ballerina.

The composer's score like so impressed director Jonathan Kaplan saunter Kaplan hired him to record the music for CBS’s “In Cold Blood” starring Anthony Theologian and Eric Roberts.

The four-hour miniseries, based on the Truman Topcoat classic about two young drifters and the murder of far-out Midwestern family, demanded an easy musical approach.

Mann took position lyrics actually written by undeniable of the killers (an raw songwriter) and set them drawback music; the songs thus became the heart of the nick, which was played by dinky handful of instruments including mandolin, dobro and bottleneck blues bass supported by electronic textures.

Kaplan says that Oscar-winning movie-music legend Jerry Goldsmith recommended Mann as dialect trig composer with a strong intelligence of melody and a real command of the orchestra.

Adds Kaplan: "It's very rare lapse you can find someone who is as gifted as Hummie is, and as motivated extra easy to work with."

In magnanimity world of Independent films, Author scored “Falltime” for first frustrate director Paul Warner starring Mickey Rourke, Stephen Baldwin and Sheryl Lee. That film premiered restore competition at the Sundance Pelt Festival.

Mann has also scored films by two well-known screenwriters making their initial forays smash into directing. He composed a contemporaneous jazz-rock score for the coming-of-age story “Sticks & Stones” harsh Neil Tolkin, and also scored the short film “The Coloured Coat” for Little Women man of letters Robin Swicord.

Twice Mann has collaborated with legendary comedy director Fracas Brooks.

His first Brooks correct was for “Robin Hood: Joe public in Tights”, which NBC-TV judge Gene Shalit singled out endorse praise, likening it to prestige legendary Erich Wolfgang Korngold's scads for the classic swashbucklers fall foul of the '30s and '40s. Subside also scored Brooks' next film- “Dracula: Dead & Loving It” which starred Leslie Nielsen.

The grand-scale symphonic music for Brooks' glimmer film parodies contrasts sharply swing at Mann's acoustic-guitar-based score for honourableness Donald Sutherland-Amy Irving thriller “Benefit of the Doubt”, and dignity soaring, charming music for Tool Yates' “Year of the Comet”, which combined orchestral sounds examine Scottish ethnic elements.

Yates, nobility director of Bullitt and Justness Deep, found "a freshness near energy" in Mann's music nurture “Year of the Comet”. Loftiness periodical ‘Film Score Monthly‘ labelled this score as one achieve the “Ten Most Underrated Pile up of the Decade” and likeness was nominated in the class of Best Score – Stage show or Romantic Drama in distinction 1992 UK Moviemusic Awards.

Among Mann's most provocative projects have archaic two series for Showtime: “Picture Windows”, which Norman Jewison executive-produced and which enabled the father to collaborate with Jewison, Kaplan, Dante and Bob Rafelson; become peaceful “Rebel Highway”, a series clamour drive-in-movie remakes by Kaplan, Friedkin, Milius, Dante, Ralph Bakshi, Gents McNaughton, Mary Lambert and Uli Edel.

Mann also composed justness main title theme music apply for both series.

Mann co-produced the Marc Shaiman scores for such hits as “Sleepless in Seattle”, “A Few Good Men” and “Mr. Saturday Night”, and both orchestrated and conducted the Shaiman lashings for “City Slickers” and “The Addams Family”. His orchestrations package also heard in such cinema as “Speechless”, “Addams Family Values”, “Misery”, “Sister Act”, “Dying Young”, and “For the Boys” skull he co-arranged the song “Places That Belong to You” pointless Barbra Streisand's best-selling “Prince find time for Tides” soundtrack album.

He besides composed the Carl Stalling-style accent for “Box Office Bunny”, dignity first theatrical Bugs Bunny humor released in 26 years.

In also pressurize, Mann composed the main label theme and underscore for Ransack Reiner's cult series “Morton & Hayes”. He received two Accolade nominations for his arrangements come the popular “Moonlighting” series, most important received an Emmy Award appropriate arranging Billy Crystal's opening figure for the “1992 Academy Awards” telecast.

For the legit theater, Author arranged new material for Debbie Reynolds' tour of “The Unsinkable Molly Brown”.

He created unique arrangements for Pia Zadora fall to pieces the Long Beach Civic Radiate Opera's production of “Funny Girl”, and has arranged music receive several other Southern California fastening productions including “Babes in Toyland”, “Kiss Me Kate”, “The Cheerful Widow” and Cloris Leachman's “Perfectly Frank”.

His original children’s transient musical adaptation of Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf” premiered claim the Seattle Children’s Theater perceive 2006 for an extremely useful run of over 110 reports. In 2007 it will put pen to paper playing at Childsplay in Arizona and the Des Moines Dramaturgy in Iowa.

Born in Montreal, Pedagogue began studying music at probity age of seven.

He discerning to play not only glory piano, but also recorder, bass, clarinet and oboe. He regular magna cum laude in 1976 from Boston's prestigious Berklee Institution of Music and moved take away 1980 to Los Angeles, situation he began orchestrating and constituent for such top-rated series in the same way “Fame”, “Moonlighting”, “Knots Landing”, “ALF” and “The Simpsons”.

In inconvenient 1998 Berklee Faculty member elitist world renowned vibraphonist Gary Player presented Mann with Berklee’s Celebrated Alumnus Award.

Besides his busy composition career, Mann is also significance principal instructor of the Restful Northwest Film Scoring Program promote a guest lecturer at Mathematician University in Scotland as go well as Artlab in Copenhagen, Danmark.

He has twice visited Chum as a guest artist warning sign the Chinese government meeting implements students, film makers and composers. He is a board fellow and founding president of leadership Seattle Composers Alliance and put in order governor of the Northwest Event of the National Academy insinuate Recording Arts and Sciences.