John adams biography movies sheet music

In 2002, David McCullough\'s riveting book John Adams was awarded the Pulitzer prize for biography.

John adams biography movies sheet music

In 2008, the Playtone/HBO miniseries based on McCullough\'s biography and bearing the same name won the Emmy award for Outstanding Miniseries along with seven other awards. Both book and miniseries were praised for their attention to detail and their ability to put the reader and viewer in Colonial American; more than once critic\'s espoused that John Adams presented life the way it actually was.

Unfortunately, the producers and directors neglected to demand the same level of verisimilitude from the score for John Adams, ably written by television and miniseries veterans Rob Lane and Joseph Vitarelli.

As they have shown in the past, both men understand the demands of television scoring and write beautiful music, but in this case, their music undercuts the drama and intrudes upon the listener when it should recede into the background.

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