Get the latest gossip
Composer Randy Edelman Reflects on His Career and Whether He’d Do One Last Score: ‘If it Were a Great Picture’
Randy Edelman reflects on his work as a musician and composer, and looks ahead to playing Carnegie Hall. And what would force him to do one last score.
He’s written hit songs (notably “Weekend in New England” for Barry Manilow), won an Emmy for contributing soaring anthems to televised sporting events, and back in his singer-songwriter days, even opened for such diverse acts as The Carpenters and Frank Zappa. So when he sits down at the piano on Dec. 8 at New York’s Carnegie Hall, audiences will be treated to a unique evening: Just the artist and a Steinway, playing some of his old hits, medleys of his movie themes and more recent songs (from his new album “Waltzing on a High Wire”), interspersed with off-the-cuff commentary on a wide-ranging life in music. “What I love about Randy’s music is that it’s extremely melodic,” says producer Roger Birnbaum, a longtime friend who has hired Edelman for such films as “Six Days, Seven Nights” and “Shanghai Noon.” “To write a theme that connects with the audience, it has to be emotional in some way.
Or read this on Variety