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Join BWG's Mailing List "Much of the credit for A Day at the Museum’s success, however, has to go to Brian Wilbur Grundstrom’s striking score. It’s a curious, often intoxicating mix of chamber ensemble and electronic timbres. No mere incidental music, Grundstrom’s score works very much like a modern Wagner opera in miniature — leitmotifs letting you know not just who’s on stage, but also if they’re good or bad, happy or sad. Syncing live motion to canned music is a notoriously difficult enterprise. If I had just one wish, it would be that one day, this specific Day will get the real accompaniment it rightfully deserves." "A Day at the Museum is an artful, surprising, and engaging Capital Fringe work .... Just as vital to this purpose is the score of Brian Wilbur Grundstrom who composed the music and also happens to be the play's producer. A celebrated composer, every step, shrug, head tilt, and double-take taken corresponds to the notes of Grundstrom's strong score." "It was a joy to work with Brian on my last two projects. His dedication to the collaborative nature of filmmaking and the creative process greatly increased the dramatic complexity of my films. Brian has an amazing talent for composing cinematic scores. I look forward to working with him on our next film." Edward Tyndall Writer-Director, Mobius Films |
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Brian Wilbur Grundstrom
Composer
Believe it or not...I've been conducting with the wand of He Who Should Not Be Named. When I was in LA visiting the Warner Brothers Studio last spring, I saw the wonderful Harry Potter wands at the gift store. I tried them all out, and Voldemort's wand was the only one that was balanced enough to serve as a baton...go figure. Not even Harry's wand would do for conducting. So I decided that I would pay homage to He Who Should Not Be Named.
2011 was a productive year. I scored two feature films in addition to producing A Day at the Musuem in the Capital Fringe Festival. Also, the Symphony of Arlington performed Suite for Chamber Orchestra.
Nocturnal Agony
Lois (Vernee Watson) a renowned evangelist on the verge of retirement has her dreams shattered when she discovers that her seemingly "perfect" daughter ("Patty", Deidra LaWan Starnes)has relapsed on drugs after many years of sobriety. This revelation uncovers years of hidden family secrets and forces her into painful examination of her many faults and shortcomings as a parent.
ARC OF LIGHT:A Portrait of Anna Campbell Bliss
ARC OF LIGHT: A Portrait of Anna Campbell Bliss traces the broad spectrum of this important artist's life and work, ranging from the aesthetic influences of her early childhood and her ground-breaking career as a Harvard-trained architect to her emergence as a cutting-edge artist whose work fuses an astonishing range of elements, including architecture, mathematics, computer technology, painting, printmaking and calligraphy. The documentary film examines the roots of Bliss's art in the Bauhaus school, which flourished in Germany in the 1920s, and how the Bauhaus artists influenced the development of Bliss's extensive contribution to American modern art.
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Listen to excerpt
A Day at the Museum
Sunshine portrays the three paintings in
"A Day at the Museum": "Innocence", "Motherhood" and "Sensuality". (photo:Chris Andersen)
Symphony of Arlington
Maestro Jeffrey Dokken and the Symphony of Arlington perform Brian Wilbur Grundstrom's Suite for Chamber Orchestra