Michael, Lolita and Kristopher attended the 2014 BMI Film/TV Awards at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel this past Wednesday evening. The awards recognize the composers of the top-grossing film and TV productions from the past year. Composer Mychael Danna received the Richard Kirk Career Achievement Award and noted journalist Jon Burlingame received a special citation for his extensive work writing about film music and the composers who create it.

Lolita recently returned from Hamilton, ON, where she had the great honor of conducting at the XIV Latvian Song Festival in Canada. The composition: “Dziesmu Pinu, Deju Pinu” (translation: I wove a song, I wove a dance) is a work specifically composed for this festival (text by Andris Ritmanis.) Lolita was thrilled to work with the 450 voice massed choir, comprised of singers from around the world, along with the chamber orchestra, comprised of Canadian musicians, along with several international guest musicians. The choirs had been preparing for the concert throughout this past year. Lolita has dual citizenship (USA and Latvia.) Latvian Song Festivals are held yearly, with the largest festivals happening in Riga, Latvia every 5 years, where the size of the massed choir exceeds 10,000 singers.

V/H/S VIRAL, which will mark the third and final film in the found footage anthology series, will be hitting VOD on October 23rd, followed by a limited theatrical release beginning November 21st.

The film features segments from Nacho Vigalondo (TIMECRIMES, EXTRATERRESTRIAL), Marcel Sarmiento (DEADGIRL),  Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (RESOLUTION) and Gregg Bishop (DANCE OF THE DEAD). Kristopher composed the score to the “Dante the Great” segment and marks his fourth collaboration with director/writer Gregg Bishop.

Michael, Lolita and Kristopher are excited to be traveling to Austin, TX, in March to attend the premiere of a suite of music from “Justice League” by the Cinematic Symphony. The performance will be in the Rotunda of the Texas Capitol building on Saturday, March 15, at 12:00pm.  While in Texas, DMP will be giving seminars on the art and business of film composition (details forthcoming), as well as taking in the sights and sounds of the South By Southwest (SXSW) Music and Film Festivals.

Kristopher is honored to continue his collaboration with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, serving as a special consultant to their film music nights. This summer marks his 17th year working with the Bowl, supervising the technology that keeps the conductor and orchestra in synchronization with film clips projected on a giant screen suspended above the stage.  Kristopher contributed to five concerts this season: the Dreamworks Animation 20th Anniversary Celebration, “Noche de Cine” conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, the annual Film Night conducted by David Newman (which this year celebrated music from the films of Alfred Hitchcock), the Jazz Night celebrating the “Black Music Soundtrack”, and the Fireworks Finale (this year’s theme is “The Simpsons Take The Bowl”).

DMP is thrilled that the complete first season of “Batman Brave and the Bold” is being released on Blu-ray this Thursday, December 5th! Included in this set is the first-ever Batman musical, “Mayhem of the Music Meister,” featuring our Primetime Emmy Award-nominated music (soundtrack CD also available on Amazon here).