My work has made it all the way up to the White House for the second time! The first time it was sheet music preparation for Fiesta Latina at the White House in 2013. Today in the White House screening room they showed Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer. I orchestrated the score for composer Boris Zelkin in 2016, and also conducted the recording sessions with a union orchestra at Castle Row Studios in Oklahoma City, OK. It’s a real surprise and honor to have an audience as prestigious as the White House staff, so many congrats to Ann McElhinney, Phelim McAleer, Magdalena Segieda, John Sullivan, Nick Searcy, Boris Zelkin, and the rest of the team.
Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer
Finally released today! In 2016 I orchestrated a film for composer Boris Zelkin called Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer. Today the movie from Hat Tip Films was released in 750 theaters nationwide. Kermit Gosnell was an abortion doctor who somehow escaped inspections of his facilities for 18 years. By the end of that time the conditions were dire and both women and babies were dying at a remarkable rate. He was convicted of three counts of murder and life in prison without parole. The story is not exclusively for the pro-life crowd. In 2013 Dayle Steinberg and Eric Ferrero, president and vice president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, wrote in an article “Gosnell ran a criminal enterprise, …
Recording the score for Gosnell
I was the orchestrator, music copyist, and conductor during the recording sessions for the film Gosnell: America’s Biggest Serial Killer. I worked with composer Boris Zelkin, and we had the good fortune to work with a fantastic union orchestra in Oklahoma City at Castle Row Studios. The score was almost entirely orchestral, and there are many more recording session photos here.