John Gromada & Tony Angelini talk about expressing meaning in sound craft for the theatre and audio drama. A “must listen” not just for theatre artists, but all artists who want to explore deeper meaning in their work.
John Gromada (Composer/Sound Designer) has composed music or designed sound for more 40 Broadway productions, including All My Sons, Torch Song, The Elephant Man, The Trip to Bountiful with Cicely Tyson (Tony nomination), Gore Vidal's The Best Man (Drama Desk Award), Clybourne Park, Seminar, Man and Boy, The Columnist, Next Fall, A Bronx Tale, Prelude to a Kiss, Proof, A Streetcar Named Desire, Twelve Angry Men, and the original A Few Good Men. His other New York credits include Amy and the Orphans, Bruce Norris' Domesticated, Old Hats, Measure for Measure (Delacorte Theater), The Orphans? Home Cycle (Drama Desk and Henry Hewes Awards), Shipwrecked! (Lucille Lortel Award), The Singing Forest, Julius Caesar, The Skriker (Drama Desk Award), Machinal (OBIE Award) and many more. His television and film credits include a score for the Emmy nominated The Trip to Bountiful, and Showing Roots . Gromada has received the National Endowment for the Arts Opera/Music Theatre Fellowship and grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
All music in this podcast was written by John Gromada, and here is the order in which the pieces are heard:
Bobadeepadoobop (Twelfth Night at the Long Wharf Theatre)
To Kill a Mockingbird - Main Theme
Bronx Tale: Lorenzos Theme
Valentine’s Day (The Orphans Home Cycle / Mockingbird)
Drive (The Orphans Home Cycle / Mockingbird)
Jeeves and Wooster Travel Music (Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense)
Listen to his music and audio dramas on Soundcloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/qGvsa
The Orphans Home Cycle / Mockingbird album available on amazon here: https://amazon.com/music/player/albums/B003DYG7GG?marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER&musicTerritory=US&ref=dm\_sh\_D2q7bpLMCRbLNaz5wsGvXk1h7
I'm your host, Tony Angelini. Thanks for listening. Find out more at www.creativemindset.org
