Mayday! Mayday! We are grooving right along, just hitting our stride, and the year is almost over! Last week, the mentors and mentees spent an incredible 2 hours on the Fox Scoring Stage, listening and watching while composer Christophe Beck scored “Garfield”, a new Fox film. The mentees were invited to stand silently in the [...]
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Is it April? (And why did T.S. Eliot write, “April is the cruelest month”?) Man, time flies when you are living a life filled with all those M’s: music, movies, mentors, mentees, magic, and M & M’s, (peanut, of course.) The entermusic FILM division is in full effect, casting and crewing up for the debut [...]
Our program has gained lots of momentum these past few weeks. In particular, the “mentor feedback” session proved that there is a lot of passion and focus now, particularly in the area of preparing college strategies for the mentees. On a personal note, Elvis Garnett, Jr., spent some afternoons on the Fox Scoring Stage last [...]
What a great day we had yesterday. Mike Knobloch treated the entire group to a “Cliff Notes” summary of the world of film music, showing examples of scenes from recent films, played with and without music. I think the mentees all enjoyed the presentation of clips from Cheaper By The Dozen, X2, and Drumline. We [...]
We are blowing up! The mentor program started to get some “traction” (a big new word in Hollywood) as we met this week to discuss the Grammy Awards, the music business, and all of our favorite artists. 2004 looks like it is going to be a very creative year for everyone, mentors & mentees alike. [...]
I made some resolutions on New Year’s Eve, and one was about mentoring. I reminded myself that being a mentor is a commitment, and that it will take perseverance to remain consistent as a mentor. But as I am always reminded every year: the rewards are so great! Happy 2004, mentors and mentees.
Wow, am I surprised. Yesterday, I was wondering if I could get to Hamilton at 3:15, and then be back at Fox for a big meeting at 5pm,. I worried that it was tight, and wondered if I’d get anything out of the 90 minutes in between. As always, that hour-and-a-half with all of the [...]
Only two weeks until 2004! I have been trading e-mails with my mentee, Elvis, and I am learning alot through our “question-and-answer” process. …I hope everybody else is using e-mail – and this entermusic.org web-site – to communicate ideas, dreams, plans, and personal histories.
