For director Damien Chazelle and composer Justin Hurwitz, not much has changed since they attended Harvard together — at least not when it comes to how they work together. "So much of it is just like ...
Oscar-winning composer Justin Hurwitz has found himself back in the awards race this season, having garnered both a Golden Globe win and an Oscar nomination for his lavish Babylon score. Creating ...
Composer Justin Hurwitz talks to IndieWire about creating a score that's faithful to its dawn-of-the-talkies setting, yet feels completely modern. Writer-director Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon” is a ...
Justin Hurwitz was conducting the airborne “Planetarium” scene from La La Land at the Hollywood Bowl in 2017, keeping the orchestra in sync with Mia and Sebastian’s romantic waltz, projected on a sea ...
Damien Chazelle and Justin Hurwitz are one of the more exciting director-composer pairings of the new century — a millennial corollary to the likes of Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann or Steven ...
After several trips around the sun, the music of “La La Land” has made its way back to the city of stars. Oscar-winning composer Justin Hurwitz will conduct a 52-piece symphony orchestra and jazz band ...
EXCLUSIVE: To utilize an old colloquialism, the fat lady has finally sung in the legal drama between WME and La La Land composter Justin Hurwitz. Over two years after Oscar winner Hurwitz sued his ...
Composer Justin Hurwitz is perhaps best known for his longtime collaboration with director Damien Chazelle, scoring each of his films: Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, Whiplash, La La Land, First Man ...
Justin Hurwitz has never thrown a chair at the drummer in his “Whiplash in Concert” band. But the drummer does have to know the score inside and out — not just because some of the jazz solos are ...
EXCLUSIVE: Organizers of Whiplash in Concert said Thursday that the live concert series will have its world premiere October 28 at Boston’s Orpheum Theatre. In the concert, the film’s Oscar-winning ...