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Starring Leonardo di Caprio and Claire Danes, new director Baz Luhrmann made waves with William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (1996), an unconventional rework of one of the world’s most popular plays. Armstrong worked with Nellee Hooper and Marius de Vries on the film to produce a 21st century score for a very modern Romeo and Juliet. In ...
The new album ‘It’s Nearly Tomorrow’ by Craig Armstrong is out October 13th on CD, Double Vinyl & Digital. Pre-Order: CD Deluxe Packaging 180g Heavyweight Vinyl iTunes (17 Tracks) iTunes Deluxe Edition (20 Tracks)
Feb 14, 2020 · The modern orchestral maestro Craig Armstrong is revered in both classical and popular music circles. He is equally at home with film scores, arrangements and electronica. Born in Glasgow in 1959 ...
Love Actually. Love Actually, directed by Richard Curtis and starring an award-winning ensemble cast, quickly became one of the world’s favourite romantic comedies for its depiction of intertwining London love stories. For Armstrong, the film represented the first opportunity to write music for this genre, and his score has become as well ...
The Quiet American. Starring Michael Caine, The Quiet American (2002) is a dramatisation of the seminal Graham Greene novel, depicting the febrile surroundings of 1950s Saigon as it struggles to emerge from colonial rule. For the composer, such expectation meant hours of absorption in the traditional music of Vietnam to come up with music that ...
Born in 1959 in the east end of Glasgow, the musician and composer headed to London in 1977 to train at the Royal Academy of Music. Under the tutelage of such greats as Cornelius Cardew and Malcolm MacDonald, he developed an approach that evokes the most delicate shifts in atmosphere and emotion.
The Great Gatsby, directed by Baz Lurhmann and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Joel Edgerton, Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan. The film is based on the great American novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the spring of New York, 1922. It’s a beautiful, tragic, universally themed film and continues the incredible experience that a Baz Lurhmann ...
