

The show will include Eastman alumnus Jeff Beal’s music for “Go For the Moon,” a celebration in 2019 of the Apollo space program, with the original video that projected an image of the Saturn rocket onto the Washington Monument. Saturday’s program will be performed by a 30-piece section of the student-run Empire Film and Media Ensemble. He has been a guest conductor for prestigious orchestras such as the Boston Pops, and has ventured into pop music with Trisha Yearwood, Carrie Underwood, Beyoncé, Mary Jo Blige and John Legend. Watters has been the music director of two Olympic games, and his television work has won six Emmys.

And that’s where it’s frustrating, because there’s rarely a scene where there is only one way to do it.” “But they are not real good at telling you what it is they want. “Everyone will have an opinion after they hear it,” Watters says of the soundtrack demands placed by filmmakers. It will also be offered as a livestream at.

It’s an evening of live music played to film at 8 p.m. “Visual Music 4.0: An Evening of World-Premiere Film and Music Collaborations,” presents a few answers to elusive directorial decrees that sometimes call for green music. That’s the kind of challenge often faced by Mark Watters, director of the Eastman School of Music’s Beal Institute for Film Music and Contemporary Media. When Disney’s animation studios tell you, “I want the music to be green,” what does that sound like?
