Category Archives: Extracurricular Activities

BROWSERS (Amazon musical web series featuring Brendan’s music) pilot is OUT! Please watch/review.

April 19, 2013 – 3:13 pm

BROWSERS, the Amazon musical-sitcom web series on which Brendan is music supervisor as well as co-composer, is HERE! (At least the pilot is…and we have all fingers and toes crossed for the rest of the season to be greenlighted.) It’s 22 minutes long, hilarious, smart, slightly profane (don’t let the little kids watch), and REALLY [...]

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LEARNINGTOWN (one of two web series featuring Brendan’s music)

April 19, 2013 – 3:05 pm

LEARNINGTOWN, one of two musical-sitcom web series on which Brendan is music supervisor as well as co-composer, is out and available! Written by and starring our great friends Paul & Storm, it is 10 8-minute episodes of hysterical geeky fun. The premise of LEARNINGTOWN is that comedy duo Paul and Storm take over a legendary kids’ [...]

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Bren & Val nominated for an Annie Award

December 6, 2011 – 1:57 pm

Well, this is a wonderful surprise. Brendan and Valerie (along with film composer Joel McNeely) have just been nominated for an Annie Award for Music in a Television Production, for our music for “Tinker Bell & the Pixie Hollow Games.” Check out the details in Theatermania and Stitch Kingdom. We’re up against the composers and [...]

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“Dig Down Deeper,” our first Tinker Bell pop single, about to be released on iTunes

November 2, 2011 – 11:52 am

One of the songs we’ve written for TINKER BELL is really heating up at Disney — and it’s fascinating to see the resources of this powerful company in action as they get behind this song. The single will “drop” on iTunes on November 8th: it’s the theme from the upcoming TINKER BELL & THE PIXIE [...]

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Cara Dillon performing “Come Flying With Me”

November 2, 2011 – 11:50 am

One of our earlier songs from the world of sassy fairies is catching some ears. We’re proud of this simple lullaby, co-written with film composer Joel McNeely, that plays over the end credits of TINK 3 (TINKER BELL & THE GREAT FAIRY RESCUE) — and we love the singer, Cara Dillon, whose gorgeous voice and [...]

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Gene at Carnegie Hall, continuing rest of tour with Audra McDonald

October 31, 2011 – 5:11 pm

Gene writes: “I am loving touring with Audra … the music is wonderful and the hang is great.  This photo is the trio backstage at Carnegie Hall on 10/22: l-r it’s me, Andy Einhorn (piano, musical director), and Mark Vanderpoel (bass).  It was such a thrill to play a full concert there with Audra, Ted [...]

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I can’t believe I do this for a living: The Behavior of Broadus.

September 10, 2011 – 6:04 pm

I’m getting to work on something wonderful and strange: a piece of theater about the father of behaviorism, entitled “The Behavior of Broadus.” Back in March I lucked into seeing an invite-only, hastily-rehearsed and gleefully thrown-together performance of this play with songs by the Burglars of Hamm. Center Theatre Group was commissioning this piece–and my [...]

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Gene at Carnegie Hall with Audra McDonald and NY Philharmonic on PBS TONIGHT, 5/31

May 31, 2011 – 4:12 pm

Gene writes: On May 5th, I performed with Audra McDonald and the NY Philharmonic at the 120th Anniversary gala at Carnegie Hall.  Audra performed 4 pieces from a Duke Ellington suite, 3 of which I play on.  I work regularly with Audra, and it’s always a thrill, but in this case it was sorta a [...]

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Say You Do is screening on May 15th…

May 3, 2011 – 12:04 pm

Interestingly, the 10-minute movie musical that Val and I wrote music and lyrics to, and that Val and Gene and I played on the soundtrack of (along with Chris Tarrow and Sean Flahaven), and that Jimmy Ray Bennett starred in–well, it’s getting screened on Sunday, May 15th in NYC. Admission is free, and if you’re [...]

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Striking 12 bonus tracks on bandcamp for your downloading pleasure; and a free new Warner-Chappell demo.

December 27, 2010 – 12:48 am

Hey everyone! It came to our attention this evening that there might be some folks out there who want access to the four bonus tracks to Striking 12 — the ones recorded in 2008 at the Zipper Theatre, and then released with a physical nifty download card last year. The only problem with the lovely, [...]

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