AVAILABLE NOW IN SELECT THEATERS, THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH PREMIERES GLOBALLY ON APPLE TV+ TODAY, JANUARY 14
NEW YORK, NY – Milan Records announces the release of THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (SOUNDTRACK FROM THE APPLE ORIGINAL FILM) by award-winning composer CARTER BURWELL. Available everywhere now, the album features music written by Burwell for the Apple Original Film based on the play by William Shakespeare, written for the screen and directed by Joel Coen. The film is the latest in a career-spanning partnership between Burwell and Coen, whose prolific partnership dates back to 1984 and has gone on to include almost every film from the four-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker including Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men, True Grit and more.
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Speaking of his approach to the score, composer CARTER BURWELL says, “Among the ways one might play Macbeth musically are to let the witches run the show, or make Lady Macbeth a bully, or play Macbeth as a blood-thirsty madman. I did none of these in The Tragedy of Macbeth. The way Joel Coen adapted the play, and the way the actors played it, the Macbeths are human and supportive of each other. Loving even. And culpable. But the music also plays the film as a thriller. A murder sets a mechanism in motion that will unwind with greater pace and greater stakes until the end.”
The soundtrack finds Burwell weaving string-heavy instrumentation with onscreen dialogues performed throughout the film, with vocal contributions by Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand and more featuring on nearly half of the album’s 13 tracks. Burwell’s orchestra of strings further showcase the melodic quality of the Shakespearean dialogue, of which the composer says:
“In any adaptation of Shakespeare, the language is the featured player, and Joel and I often discussed how much or little the music should play during the great monologues. We arrived at the maxim that, in these scenes, the dialogue was the melody and the score its accompaniment. With this in mind I tried to write around and below the words, placing much of the score in the lowest registers – cellos and basses – where it wouldn’t fight the speech. This also accentuates the darkness of a very dark story.”
The score’s ominous tone is punctuated by moments of solo violin Burwell describes as “taking flight out of the darkness.” Eerily alien and slightly off-kilter, these portions reflect a conscious decision by Burwell to find something “rough-hewn like a fiddle, but not a fiddle from any place we know.” Burwell enlisted award-winning violinist Tim Fain to help create a folk-style sound from unknown lands, crediting the musician for his ability to go “off the page” enough to give the compositions character and life. From Shakespearean speeches to simmering, otherworldly textures, Burwell’s score coalesces into a darkly foreboding and propulsive soundscape that ultimately captures the essence of the story as well as its nuances.
Starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, The Tragedy of Macbeth is available now in select theaters from A24 and premieres globally on Apple TV+ today, January 14.
ABOUT THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH
Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand star in Joel Coen’s bold and fierce adaptation; a tale of murder, madness, ambition and wrathful cunning.
Apple Original Films presents an A24 and IAC Films production, The Tragedy of Macbeth, based on the play by William Shakespeare and written for the screen and directed by Joel Coen. The film stars Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Bertie Carvel, Alex Hassell, Corey Hawkins, Harry Melling and Brendan Gleeson. The producers are Joel Coen, Frances McDormand and Robert Graf. The film features casting by Ellen Chenoweth, music by Carter Burwell, costumes by Mary Zophres, editing by Lucian Johnston and Reginald Jaynes, production design by Stefan Dechant and cinematography by Bruno Delbonnel.
THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (SOUNDTRACK FROM THE APPLE ORIGINAL FILM)
TRACKLISTING –
1. Fair Is Foul (feat. Kathryn Hunter)
2. My Black Desires
3. Come What Come May (feat. Denzel Washington)
4. Leave All the Rest to Me (feat. Denzel Washington & Frances McDormand)
5. Blood Will Have Blood
6. Is This a Dagger? (feat. Denzel Washington)
7. Something Wicked This Way Comes
8. Be Not Found Here
9. Out Damned Spot (feat. Frances McDormand, Nancy Daly & Jefferson Mays)
10. Birnam Wood
11. Come Seeling Night
12. Tomorrow and Tomorrow (feat. Denzel Washington)
13. The End of Macbeth
ABOUT CARTER BURWELL
Carter Burwell has composed the music for more than 90 feature films, including Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Rob Roy, Fargo, The Spanish Prisoner, Gods and Monsters, Velvet Goldmine, Three Kings, Being John Malkovich, O Brother, Where Art Thou? (BAFTA Nominee for Film Music), Before Night Falls, A Knight’s Tale, The Rookie, Adaptation., Intolerable Cruelty, No Country for Old Men, In Bruges, Burn After Reading, Twilight, Where the Wild Things Are (Golden Globe Nominee for Best Original Score), A Serious Man, The Blind Side, The Kids Are All Right, True Grit, Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 & 2, Mr. Holmes, Legend, Anomalisa, Hail, Caesar!, The Founder, Missing Link and The Good Liar.
For television, Burwell wrote the music for Apple’s drama series The Morning Show starring Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Billy Crudup and Steve Carell which had it first season premiere on November 1, 2019. The second season of The Morning Show premiered on September 17, 2021. Burwell also wrote the music for the first season of the comedy series Space Force starring Steve Carell which premiered on Netflix on May 29, 2020.
In 2017 Burwell wrote the music for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri starring Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell, written and directed by Martin McDonagh. Burwell received an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe Award nomination for his work for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and won the British Independent Film Award for Best Music on behalf of the film.
In 2015 Burwell wrote the music for the drama Carol starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara directed by Todd Haynes. Burwell received his first Oscar nomination for Best Original Score for Carol, as well as nominations for a Golden Globe and a Critics’ Choice Movie Award. Burwell won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s Award for Best Music Score for Carol and Anomalisa.
Other recent films include Wonderstruck which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2017 and was Burwell’s fourth collaboration with director Todd Haynes, and the Coen Brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, a six-part Western anthology film for Netflix which marked their 17th project together and premiered in November 2018. His original score for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs was named to the 2019 Oscar shortlist.
Burwell also previously worked with Todd Haynes on Velvet Goldmine and HBO’s mini-series Mildred Pierce starring Kate Winslet for which Burwell was nominated for two Emmy Awards, winning in the category of Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or Special (Original Dramatic Score).
His most recent project is the upcoming The Tragedy of Macbeth directed and adapted by Joel Coen starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand which opened in select theatres on December 25, 2021 and will be available to stream on Apple TV+ on January 14, 2022.
His theater work includes the chamber opera The Celestial Alphabet Event and the Mabou Mines productions Mother and Lucia’s Chapters of Coming Forth by Day.
In 2005 he developed a concert work for text and music titled Theater of the New Ear, presented in New York, London and Los Angeles. The text, by Joel and Ethan Coen and Charlie Kaufman, was performed by a dozen actors including Meryl Streep, Steve Buscemi, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Hope Davis, Peter Dinklage, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The music was performed by the 8-member Parabola Ensemble, conducted by Mr. Burwell.
Burwell’s dance compositions include the pieces The Return of Lot's Wife, choreographed by Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig, and RABL, choreographed by Patrice Regnier. He has performed around the world with his own ensembles as well as others, such as The Harmonic Choir.
His writing includes the essays "Music at Six: Scoring the News Then and Now," published in the inaugural issue of Esopus magazine in 2003 and reprinted in Harper's Magazine in 2004, “No Country For Old Music” in the 2013 Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics, and “How Nino Rota Saved Me from a Subterranean Freakout” in Arcana IX, 2021.
Burwell has taught and lectured at The Sundance Institute, New York University, Columbia University, and Harvard University.
BONG JOON HO’S ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED FILM, PARASITE, WILL BE SCREENED AT THE THEATER AT THE ACE HOTEL ALONGSIDE A LIVE PERFORMANCE OF THE FILM’S SCORE
PARASITE’S COMPOSER, JUNG JAEIL WILL CONDUCT THE HOLLYWOOD CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Los Angeles, January 21, 2020 – NEON is proud to present Bong Joon Ho’s six-time Oscar nominated film, PARASITE, to audiences in a one of a kind experience on Sunday, January 26th at The Theater at the Ace Hotel.
PARASITE’s composer, Jung Jaeil will conduct the Hollywood Chamber Orchestra as they play the film’s score alongside a screening of the film. Bong Joon Ho will introduce the film, which most recently earned a historic win at the SAG awards, becoming the first foreign language film to ever collect the Ensemble honor.
Bong Joon Ho’s PARASITE has been breaking records since it launched in May, most notably earning six Oscar nominations, three Golden Globe nominations and one win, and winning SAG Ensemble this past Sunday. The film also won the ACE Editing Award in addition to being nominated for PGA, WGA and DGA.
PARASITE recently expanded to over 800 theaters bringing in an additional 2.2mm, bringing its US cumulative box office to over 28mm.
TYLER BATES' SCORE FOR FAST & FURIOUS PRESENTS: HOBBS & SHAW OUT NOW
THE 11TH FEATURE FILM FEATURING MUSIC COMPOSED BY BATES TO REACH NO. 1 AT THE BOX OFFICE
Los Angeles (August 5, 2019) - Composer Tyler Bates' score for Universal Pictures' Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw is officially out now. Featuring orchestral elements, Samoan drums and hundreds of guitar & bass tracks performed by Bates himself, the collection of music matches the high-octane intensity of the summer blockbuster, which just debuted at number 1 at the box office this past weekend. The album is available now via major digital streaming platforms HERE and a complete tracklisting can be found below.
Hobbs & Shaw marks the 11th feature film that Tyler Bates has composed music for that has reached number 1 at the box office. Having also written the music for the entire Guardians of the Galaxy and John Wick series, as well as a number of notable movies including Deadpool 2 (2018), Watchmen (2009), 300 (2007), his scores continue to fuel some of the world's biggest films and franchises. Hobbs & Shaw is on target to push the cumulative worldwide box-office gross of Bates' projects over 5 billion dollars to-date.
"Creating the score for Hobbs & Shaw was an absolutely wild ride," says Bates. "David Leitch ran through a wall, and every department followed his lead to make an incredibly entertaining movie that has heart & humor, and that rocks hard with a thousand guitars from start to finish!"
On July 26th, Back Lot Music also released the original motion picture soundtrack to Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw. The soundtrack features new music by YUNGBLUD, Idris Elba feat. Cypress Hill, Aloe Blacc, and explores a variety of musical styles that reflect the eclectic energy of the film; everything from British Rock to hip-hop to electronic and even Samoan. Bates rounds out the soundtrack with a score suite aptly titled "Hobbs & Shaw Rocks!". Fans can listen to the album now via major digital streaming platforms here: https://backlotmusic.ffm.to/hobbsshaw
Bates' momentous year will continue this fall, as audiences will hear his and Joanne Higginbottom's music in Genndy Tartakovsky's upcoming animated series Primal on Adult Swim, the second season of The Purge on USA Network and Cirque Du Soleil's first-ever live action thriller entitled R.U.N., which debuts at the LUXOR in Las Vegas, NV this October. Tyler is also co-producing Bush's upcoming full-length album with Gavin Rossdale. The duo co-wrote four songs for the release, including the John Wick: Chapter 3 end title credits song "Bullet Holes", which cracked the Billboard charts Top 20 and crossed over to alternative radio as well as active rock. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (Original Motion Picture Score Tracklisting)
1. Hard Way or Easy Way 2. Descender 3. McClaren Chase 4. Dad's Code Red 5. Hot Spy Lady 6. Hack the News 7. You Might Learn Something 8. Samoa Siva Tau 9. Wasted So Much Time 10. Mike Oxmaul 11. Bring on the Moonshine 12. Family Heirlooms 13. Ring of Fire 14. Who the Hell Are You? 15. Drones and Explosions 16. Do the Honors 17. Shut Him Down 18. We Believe in People
About Tyler Bates: Tyler Bates regularly transitions from scoring some of the world's biggest film and television franchises, such as Guardians of the Galaxy and John Wick, to rocking massive audiences with Marilyn Manson, and back to the studio again writing and producing. In 2004, he made waves by creating the menacing audio backdrop for the popular Zack Snyder reboot of Dawn of the Dead, followed by his soundtrack for the filmmaker's 300. His oeuvre expanded to include films like Watchmen, Sucker Punch, The Devil's Rejects, and Halloween I & II, and TV Shows like Californication, Kingdom, Salem, The Purge and more. Bates co-wrote and produced Manson's 2015 epic, The Pale Emperor. As the band's lead guitarist, he dedicated over a year to touring in support of the album on the headline Hell Not Hallelujah Tour. In 2017, he once again joined forces in the studio with Manson on the follow-up album Heaven Upside Down and returned to the road for a string of high-profile touring. More recently, Bates scored the blockbuster Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde, The Spy Who Dumped Me, and The Punisher - Seasons 1 & 2. With more new projects on the horizon, Tyler Bates will undoubtedly continue to redefine what a composer is.
About Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw: After eight films that have amassed almost $5 billion worldwide, the Fast & Furious franchise now features its first stand-alone vehicle as Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham reprise their roles as Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw in Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw.
Ever since hulking lawman Hobbs (Johnson), a loyal agent of America's Diplomatic Security Service, and lawless outcast Shaw (Statham), a former British military elite operative, first faced off in 2015's Furious 7, the duo have swapped smack talk and body blows as they've tried to take each other down.
But when cyber-genetically enhanced anarchist Brixton Lorr (Idris Elba) gains control of an insidious bio-threat that could alter humanity forever - and bests a brilliant and fearless rogue MI6 agent (The Crown's Vanessa Kirby), who just happens to be Shaw's sister - these two sworn enemies will have to partner up to bring down the only guy who might be badder than themselves.
Hobbs & Shaw blasts open a new door in the Fast universe as it hurtles action across the globe, from Los Angeles to London and from the toxic wasteland of Chernobyl to the lush beauty of Samoa.
Directed by David Leitch (Deadpool 2) from a story by longtime Fast & Furious narrative architect Chris Morgan and a screenplay by Morgan and Drew Pearce (Mission: Impossible-Rogue Nation, Iron Man 3), the film is produced by Johnson, Statham, Morgan and Hiram Garcia. The executive producers are Dany Garcia, Kelly McCormick, Ethan Smith, Ainsley Davies and Steven Chasman.
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