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Bear McCreary: Making Music for Godzilla & a String Quartet

Film/TVInterviewsPop CulturePop CultureArts Alive Blog

USC Thornton School alumnus Bear McCreary is currently enjoying a stellar career as a composer for motion pictures, television and video games. His soundtrack for the new movie The Professor and Madman was recently released, his score for Godzilla: King of the Monsters is about to come out, and he has four more projects in the works. He achieved early success in television with his music for the remake of Battlestar Galactica and The Walking Dead. McCreary told me it’s more than the genre or the medium that excites him.

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Bear McCreary: Making Music for Godzilla & a String Quartet
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In John’s long radio career, he’s been an on-air host, arts editor, VP of Programming & Operations, and even a station manager. He’s produced and conducted thousands of interviews, and over 500 live to air studio performances from Lang Lang to Sondra Radvanovsky to Tafelmusik. In his previous life, he was VP of Programming for Toronto’s commercial classical music station, now he programs much of the music you hear on-air and online and hosts several overnight show. The one thing John wishes everyone knew about classical music is that because the genre is so vast and varied, there really is something for everyone.
John Van Driel
Published on 06.03.2019

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