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NEW iTUNES : THE BIG YEAR
date: October 16th, 2011
Theodore Shapiro's score for THE BIG YEAR has been released on iTunes. You can buy it here. There are currently no news regarding possible CD or at least CD-R on demand release of the score. Click on the cover image for more details about this album.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THEODORE SHAPIRO
date: September 29th, 2011

NEW CD: A SYMPHONY OF HOPE: THE HAITI PROJECT
date: September 9th, 2011
Original symphony co-composed by 25 composers including Theodore Shapiro will be released on October 4th. Nettwerk Music Group will be handling the digital distribution through iTunes, Amazon MP3 and elsewhere, and physical discs (including a nice 8-page booklet) will be available through Amazon's CD-On-Demand service. You can already pre-order your copy at Amazon . For larger version of the cover, click on the image (it will load in a new window).

NEW TRAILER: THE BIG YEAR
date: September 9th, 2011
Trailer for upcoming THE BIG YEAR was finally released and you can watch it below. No soundtrack album has been announced yet, but some sources suggest it's in the works and hopefully will be announced shortly. It is not confirmed yet if the score will be available on CD or will be download only. Stay tuned for more information coming soon. The movie will be released on October 14th and official website has been also launched recently.

NEW PROJECT: GREAT HOPE SPRINGS
date: August 20th, 2011
Theodore Shapiro is currently working on his large orchestral score for THE PIRATES! (which should be also "colored with the playful elements of a pirate band" ) as well as finishing HBO movie GAME CHANGE about the 2008 elections. The third project is the next David Frankel (THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, MARLEY AND ME, THE BIG YEAR) movie GREAT HOPE SPRINGS, starring Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones and Steve Carrell. GREAT HOPE SPRINGS tells the story of a middle-aged couple attending an intense counseling weekend to decide the fate of their marriage. The movie is currently in production and no release date has been announced yet, except that it is coming in 2012.

NEW CD: THE CHANGE-UP
date: August 16th, 2011
Theodore Shapiro was originally set to score THE CHANGE-UP before he left the project and was replaced by John Debney. Today the score album was released on iTunes and features not only music by John Debney, but approximately 14 minutes by Theodore Shapiro as well. You can get the album at iTunes. Tracklist and a sample from Theodore Shapiro's score was added to the discography.

NEW TRAILER : THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS
date: July 20th, 2011
First trailer for upcoming THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS was recently released and you can watch it below. Aardman Animations' production features voice talents of Martin Freeman, David Tennant, Salma Hayedk, Hugh Grant or Brendan Gleeson among others. The film is set for release on March 30, 2012. More information coming soon.

NEW CD : MR. WOODCOCK
date: June 23th, 2011
Theodore Shapiro's unreleased score for 2007 comedy MR. WOODCOCK, starring Sean William Scott as a successful writer who is visiting his home town on tour to promote his new book and finds out that his mother (Susan Sarandon) is being banged and about to marry his former middle-school teacher, the title Mr. Woodcock (Billy Bob Thornton), who tormented him as a kid, recently appeared as a bootleg. The tracklist of this enjoyable score was added to the discography and you can check it on the CD's page and also listen to a number of sound clips there.

NEW INTERVIEW: Theodore Shapiro on ARTHUR
date: May 29st, 2011
Theodore Shapiro was recently interviewed by 'Gordon and the Whale' while visiting Dallas for his concert series and also visiting ARTHUR premiere there. Theodore Shapiro is discussing not only scoring ARTHUR and other comedies, but also following in Burt Bacharach's footsteps and incorporating the theme from original Arthur into his own score; his favorite scores and also upcoming THE BIRD YEAR. You can watch the interview at GordonandtheWhale's website.

NEW PROJECT: GAME CHANGE
date: May 1st, 2011
As reported by various parties already, Theodore Shapiro is no longer working on THE CHANGE-UP, which ultimately went to John Debney who is currently working on the score. Theodore Shapiro is currently working on another project, HBO TV movie GAME CHANGE directed by Jay Roach and featuring an impressive cast including Ed Harris, Woody Harrelson, Danny Strong, Peter MacNicol and Julianne Moore. The movie follows Sarah Palin's failed Republican campaign for presidency in 2008. The TV movie is expected to debut later in the year.

NEW CD : ARTHUR
date: April 23th, 2011
As mentioned earlier ARTHUR soundtrack was recently released as digital download and CD-R on demand by Amazon. The album features unfortunately only a single score cue. Tracklist was added to the discography (click on the image). You can check samples from the score cue at Amazon.

NEW PROJECT : PIRATES!
date: April 20th, 2011
The new project of Aardman animation, PIRATES!, will get the original score from Theodore Shapiro. The movie, which is set to open in September 2012. is based on the best-selling series of books by Gideon Defoe and is intended to be a swashbuckling adventure with both surreal and broad comedy. The story follows a group of pirates who journey to London, meet Charles Darwin and a talking chimp named Mister Bobo, and an enemy looking to wipe them out. The movie is directed by Peter Lord, co-founder of Aardman Animation and responsible for some of their greatest hits including CHICKEN RUN and WALLACE & GROMIT series.

NEW CONCERT PIECE: Symphony of Hope: The Haiti Project (25 composers)
date: March 17th, 2011
"Symphony of Hope" is a musical fundraising project which was originally designed to help the people of Haiti in their desperate time of need. A year after the terrible earthquake which has destroyed the lives of thousands of Haitians, the need for assistance is even greater than ever. "Symphony of Hope" is a collaboration by 25 of today's leading Oscar, Tony, Grammy and Emmy winning composers to benefit Haiti Earthquake Relief. The "Symphony of Hope" begins with an original Haitian melody, then each composer contributes an additional 8-32 bars of music to the piece and then passes it along to the next composer. This is symbolic in the way that one lending hand passes on to another lending hand and so on and eventually a beautiful outcome is derived.
The orchestral piece is currently on track to be recorded later this spring, with everyone donating their time – the composers, orchestrators, copyists, musicians, scoring stage technicians, etc. Once the orchestral piece has been recorded, those finished tracks will be given to a range of producers, artists, and remixers, in order to create additional contemporary works based on the symphony in order to fill out the album and provide an eclectic listening experience. Plans for a DVD documenting the making of the piece as well as a full scale concert are also underway. All proceeds from the sale of the album and any related materials, such as videos, concerts, etc., will go directly to the people of Haiti and are considered tax deductible through our partner charity.
LIVE BLOGGING of the scoring session from Warner Brothers will take place on Saturday, March 26th. The session is supposed to be from 10a-1p, then 2p-5p (all times PST). So be sure to follow this event on Facebook and Twitter.
The composers involved are: Nathan Barr, Tyler Bates, Jeff Beal, Christophe Beck, Bruce Broughton, George S. Clinton, Elia Cmiral, Don Davis, John Debney, Randy Edelman, Andrew Gross, Dave Grusin, Marvin Hamlisch, David Kitay, Christopher Lennertz, Deborah Lurie, Lisbeth Scott, Pete Seibert, Theodore Shapiro, Ed Shearmur, John Swihart, Brian Tyler, Michael Wandmacher, Timothy Michael Wynn, and Christopher Young.

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Biography \| Filmography \| Discography \| Multimedia \| Interviews \| News \| Links \| Guestbook
NEW iTUNES : THE BIG YEAR date: October 16th, 2011 Theodore Shapiro's score for THE BIG YEAR has been released on iTunes. You can buy it here. There are currently no news regarding possible CD or at least CD-R on demand release of the score. Click on the cover image for more details about this album. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THEODORE SHAPIRO date: September 29th, 2011 NEW CD: A SYMPHONY OF HOPE: THE HAITI PROJECT date: September 9th, 2011 Original symphony co-composed by 25 composers including Theodore Shapiro will be released on October 4th. Nettwerk Music Group will be handling the digital distribution through iTunes, Amazon MP3 and elsewhere, and physical discs (including a nice 8-page booklet) will be available through Amazon's CD-On-Demand service. You can already pre-order your copy at Amazon . For larger version of the cover, click on the image (it will load in a new window). NEW TRAILER: THE BIG YEAR date: September 9th, 2011 Trailer for upcoming THE BIG YEAR was finally released and you can watch it below. No soundtrack album has been announced yet, but some sources suggest it's in the works and hopefully will be announced shortly. It is not confirmed yet if the score will be available on CD or will be download only. Stay tuned for more information coming soon. The movie will be released on October 14th and official website has been also launched recently. NEW PROJECT: GREAT HOPE SPRINGS date: August 20th, 2011 Theodore Shapiro is currently working on his large orchestral score for THE PIRATES! (which should be also "colored with the playful elements of a pirate band" ) as well as finishing HBO movie GAME CHANGE about the 2008 elections. The third project is the next David Frankel (THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, MARLEY AND ME, THE BIG YEAR) movie GREAT HOPE SPRINGS, starring Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones and Steve Carrell. GREAT HOPE SPRINGS tells the story of a middle-aged couple attending an intense counseling weekend to decide the fate of their marriage. The movie is currently in production and no release date has been announced yet, except that it is coming in 2012. NEW CD: THE CHANGE-UP date: August 16th, 2011 Theodore Shapiro was originally set to score THE CHANGE-UP before he left the project and was replaced by John Debney. Today the score album was released on iTunes and features not only music by John Debney, but approximately 14 minutes by Theodore Shapiro as well. You can get the album at iTunes. Tracklist and a sample from Theodore Shapiro's score was added to the discography. NEW TRAILER : THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS date: July 20th, 2011 First trailer for upcoming THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS was recently released and you can watch it below. Aardman Animations' production features voice talents of Martin Freeman, David Tennant, Salma Hayedk, Hugh Grant or Brendan Gleeson among others. The film is set for release on March 30, 2012. More information coming soon. NEW CD : MR. WOODCOCK date: June 23th, 2011 Theodore Shapiro's unreleased score for 2007 comedy MR. WOODCOCK, starring Sean William Scott as a successful writer who is visiting his home town on tour to promote his new book and finds out that his mother (Susan Sarandon) is being banged and about to marry his former middle-school teacher, the title Mr. Woodcock (Billy Bob Thornton), who tormented him as a kid, recently appeared as a bootleg. The tracklist of this enjoyable score was added to the discography and you can check it on the CD's page and also listen to a number of sound clips there. NEW INTERVIEW: Theodore Shapiro on ARTHUR date: May 29st, 2011 Theodore Shapiro was recently interviewed by 'Gordon and the Whale' while visiting Dallas for his concert series and also visiting ARTHUR premiere there. Theodore Shapiro is discussing not only scoring ARTHUR and other comedies, but also following in Burt Bacharach's footsteps and incorporating the theme from original Arthur into his own score; his favorite scores and also upcoming THE BIRD YEAR. You can watch the interview at GordonandtheWhale's website. NEW PROJECT: GAME CHANGE date: May 1st, 2011 As reported by various parties already, Theodore Shapiro is no longer working on THE CHANGE-UP, which ultimately went to John Debney who is currently working on the score. Theodore Shapiro is currently working on another project, HBO TV movie GAME CHANGE directed by Jay Roach and featuring an impressive cast including Ed Harris, Woody Harrelson, Danny Strong, Peter MacNicol and Julianne Moore. The movie follows Sarah Palin's failed Republican campaign for presidency in 2008. The TV movie is expected to debut later in the year. NEW CD : ARTHUR date: April 23th, 2011 As mentioned earlier ARTHUR soundtrack was recently released as digital download and CD-R on demand by Amazon. The album features unfortunately only a single score cue. Tracklist was added to the discography (click on the image). You can check samples from the score cue at Amazon. NEW PROJECT : PIRATES! date: April 20th, 2011 The new project of Aardman animation, PIRATES!, will get the original score from Theodore Shapiro. The movie, which is set to open in September 2012. is based on the best-selling series of books by Gideon Defoe and is intended to be a swashbuckling adventure with both surreal and broad comedy. The story follows a group of pirates who journey to London, meet Charles Darwin and a talking chimp named Mister Bobo, and an enemy looking to wipe them out. The movie is directed by Peter Lord, co-founder of Aardman Animation and responsible for some of their greatest hits including CHICKEN RUN and WALLACE & GROMIT series. NEW CONCERT PIECE: Symphony of Hope: The Haiti Project (25 composers) date: March 17th, 2011 "Symphony of Hope" is a musical fundraising project which was originally designed to help the people of Haiti in their desperate time of need. A year after the terrible earthquake which has destroyed the lives of thousands of Haitians, the need for assistance is even greater than ever. "Symphony of Hope" is a collaboration by 25 of today's leading Oscar, Tony, Grammy and Emmy winning composers to benefit Haiti Earthquake Relief. The "Symphony of Hope" begins with an original Haitian melody, then each composer contributes an additional 8-32 bars of music to the piece and then passes it along to the next composer. This is symbolic in the way that one lending hand passes on to another lending hand and so on and eventually a beautiful outcome is derived. The orchestral piece is currently on track to be recorded later this spring, with everyone donating their time – the composers, orchestrators, copyists, musicians, scoring stage technicians, etc. Once the orchestral piece has been recorded, those finished tracks will be given to a range of producers, artists, and remixers, in order to create additional contemporary works based on the symphony in order to fill out the album and provide an eclectic listening experience. Plans for a DVD documenting the making of the piece as well as a full scale concert are also underway. All proceeds from the sale of the album and any related materials, such as videos, concerts, etc., will go directly to the people of Haiti and are considered tax deductible through our partner charity. LIVE BLOGGING of the scoring session from Warner Brothers will take place on Saturday, March 26th. The session is supposed to be from 10a-1p, then 2p-5p (all times PST). So be sure to follow this event on Facebook and Twitter. The composers involved are: Nathan Barr, Tyler Bates, Jeff Beal, Christophe Beck, Bruce Broughton, George S. Clinton, Elia Cmiral, Don Davis, John Debney, Randy Edelman, Andrew Gross, Dave Grusin, Marvin Hamlisch, David Kitay, Christopher Lennertz, Deborah Lurie, Lisbeth Scott, Pete Seibert, Theodore Shapiro, Ed Shearmur, John Swihart, Brian Tyler, Michael Wandmacher, Timothy Michael Wynn, and Christopher Young. news archive ===>	NEW RELEASES
(c) 2010 Petr Kocanda . All content is intended for promotional use of the composer only and shouldn't be used for any commercial purposes.