Composer & Conductor
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John Williams & The Boston Pops with Joan Baez | P.B.S. |
Rich Man, Poor Man II | Universal Studios |
Little Women | Universal Studios |
Bionic Woman | Universal Studios |
Hawaii Five-O | C.B.S. |
Time Travelers | Disney Studios |
Days of Our Lives | Columbia Pictures-T.V. |
Michael Isaacson has been associated with the following composers in
orchestrating, arranging, conducting or compositional capacities: Alex
North, Elmer Bernstein, Walter Scharf, David Shire, Charles Fox, Gerald
Fried, Fred Karlin, Lee Holdridge, John Rubenstein, Earle Hagen, William
Goldstein, Jack Elliot, Allyn Ferguson, Mark Snow and Chris Stone on the
following productions:
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Liberty Heights | Baltimore Pictures |
National Lampoon's European Vacation | Warner Bros. Productions |
Strange Brew | M.G.M. Productions |
Trenchcoat | Walt Disney Productions |
Casey's Shadow | Ray Stark Productions |
Billy Jack Goes To Washington | Billy Jack Productions |
The Passover Plot | Oaktree Productions |
A Summer To Remember | C.B.S. Entertainment |
Robert Kennedy - His Life and Times | Columbia Pictures |
Love Boat Goes To China | Spelling/Cramer Productions |
Mystic Warrier | Warner Bros. Productions |
Casablanca | Warner Bros. Productions |
Hollywood - The Gift Of Laughter | Jack Haley, Jr. Productions |
Aloha Paradise | Spelling Productions |
Midnight Offerings | Stephan Cannell Productions |
Hart To Hart | Spelling - Goldberg |
Charlie's Angels | Spelling -Goldberg |
Captains And Kings | Universal Studios |
Three Thousand Mile Chase (pilot) | Universal Studios |
Little Women | Universal Studios |
Young Daniel Boone | Twentieth Century Fox Studios |
Julie Farr, M.D. | Paramount Studios |
Man-Beast | Alan Landsberg Productions |
The Chisholms | Alan Landsberg Productions |
To Race The Wind | Warner Bros. Productions |
Chairperson of the Society of Composers and Lyricists Visiting Educational Seminars Program. |
Columnist for the Society of Composers and Lyricist's SCORE Magazine |
Arranged and produced The Promise of Time CD for Roslyn Kind. Five of his songs are included. |
Produced CD of his musical Covenant of Wonders: The Giving & Receiving of the Ten Commandments |
Composed & produced To Recreate The World, a childrenis Sabbath sacred service in response to the millennium, co-commissioned by 40 American temples & simultaneously premiered January 21, 2000. |
Conducted and Produced Joyful Light Holiday CD with The Bulgarian National Symphony |
Composed, arranged and conducted The Israel Philharmonic in all the film and permanent exhibition music for New Yorkis Museum of Jewish Heritage overlooking The Statue of Liberty. |
Authored and produced cassette course: Ten Lessons in Composing Jewish Music Producing a double CD for Arabesque Recordings of two operas and choral music from Terezin. |
Producer of Israel Philharmonic recordings for the new Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles |
Composer & lyricist of Maccabi Olympic Youth Theme produced for L.A. Opening Ceremony |
Music Director for Walter Scharf Music and Cinema Songs, L.A. |
Tower Air -Narr. & prod. in- flight musical programming for international & domestic flights. |
Founding Artistic Director of The Milken Archive of 20th Century American Jewish Music, conceived, administered, conducted & produced 14 choral and orchestral CDs |
Additional in - house scoring for Foundation video presentations. |
Music Director, The Jewish National Fund Gala Concerts - Dorothy Chandler Pavilion |
Ride A Purple Pelican - comp. & prod. 28 mu. settings of childrenis poems by Jack Prelutsky. |
Chair Dancing - comp. & prod. aerobics music for Kaiser Permanente less ambulatory patients. |
Blue Ribbon Panel Member of Music Judges, Emmy Awards, annually since 1981 |
Head Judge of The American Jewish Song Festival since 1992. |
Joan Baez and Cathy Lee Crosby - Arrangements and orchestrations |
The Bob Hope Show - Vocal arrangement and orchestration |
Loyola Marymount University - Creation of syllabus for media music course |
Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company - Arrangements for national distributors' convention |
National Campaign songscore for 50th Birthday of March of Dimes campaign. |
An Orchestral Tribute to Shlomo Bardin - Commissioned by Brandeis-Bardin Institute |
A Video Guide To The Jewish Holidays - Arranged and produced background score |
Theodore Bikel Sings Holiday Songs - Music director and arranger |
Regeneration CD - Composed and conducted with Ed Asner, Nathan Lam, orch. & chorus |
Legacy CD- Composed and conducted with Nathan Lam and the Israel Philharmonic |
Opening Night CD- Conducted and produced "Michael Isaacson and The Israel Pops" |
Halcyon CD- Cond. & produced "Michael Isaacson and The Hollywood Pops" |
Time Capsule - Theme and concept music for U.A.H.C., T.V. interview series |
Music production albums composed and conducted for John Parry Production Music |
Jewish Federation, L.A. - Prod. and cond. four new musical works for 6505 pilot series |
Musical Direction and orchestrations for Charles Fox & Hal David's "The Chosen" |
Musical Direction For Walter Scharf's "Willie Wonka" and "Maharajah" |
Music Supervision for Split Second, Mayfair Theatre, Santa Monica |
Produced original dramatic score for False Witness: The Trial of Adolph Hitler, Boca Raton, Florida. |
Music. Direction and original music composed for Number Our Days, Mark Taper Forum, L.A. |
New orchestrations for Kiss Me Kate, Old Globe Theatre, San Diego |
Musical Direction for N. Y. Prods. of The Boyfriend, Pal Joey, My Fair Lady and Milk And Honey |
Original music for N. Y. productions of Under Milk Wood, Madwoman Of Chaillot and The Golem |
Composed new musicals - Momma, Babe!, Old And Free , Is This A Great Life? & X-masworld, Covenant of Wonders, and Two Hans Please! |
A showcased writer in Lehman Engel's BMI Musical Theater Workshop, 1967-1975 |
Four Plus Five - Houston, Texas Premiere |
The Daughters Of Lear - New York City Premiere |
Music articles published in the Society of Composer & Lyricists SCORE, Journal of the Cantors
Assembly, Journal of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and Guild of Temple Musicians
Newsletter.
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Over 40 CDs and albums and 400 publications of choral, instrumental, sacred
and educational works with Boosey & Hawkes, Shawnee Press, Lawson-Gould,
Music-70, Transcontinental, New Horizons, Music for Percussion, MCA, Plymouth
Music, Southern Music, John Parry Music, Alry Publications, Vivace Press and
Egg Cream Music (ECM).
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Michael. Isaacson's choral music has been performed by The Roger Wagner Chorale,
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Paul Salamunovich and the Los Angeles Master Chorale,
Robert Page and the Pittsburgh Symphony Chorus, The Robert DeCormier Singers,
The Princeton and Vienna Boys' Choirs, The Kettering Children's Choir, The Eastman School of Music,
Harvard and Yale Glee Clubs, and synagogue and church choirs across North America.
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Guest conductor, Riverside and Inland Empire Philharmonic Orchestras |
Michael Isaacson is a Sony Recording Artist |
Founding Music Director of The Hollywood Pops Orchestra |
Founding Music Director of The Israel Pops Orchestra |
Founding Music Director of The Holiday Pops Orchestra |
Comp., cond. & prod. new mu. w/ the Munich Phil., Mexico City Symph. & The Israel Phil. Orch. |
Music Director of the Michael Isaacson Singers since 1977 |
Conductor of all original orchestral scores for Television since 1976 |
Music Director of Case Western Reserve University Chorale, 1974-1975 |
Music Director of Festival Chorus, S.U.N.Y. Fredonia, 1973-1974 |
Conducting Assistant to Robert DeCormier, Eastman School of Music, 1972 |
President of the Friends of Music, Cal State Los Angeles, 1984 -1985 |
Ph.D. in Composition from the Eastman School of Music, 1979 |
Master of Arts (Composition) from Brooklyn College, 1970 |
Bachelor of Science (Music Education) from Hunter College, 1967 |
Jazz Harmony & Improvisation with John Mehegan, Julliard School of Music, 1963-1965 |
Ethnomusicology w/ Israel Adler & Amnon Shiloach at Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem, 1969 |
Composition with David Lybbert, Robert Starer, Warren Benson and Samuel Adler |
Orchestral conducting with Jonathan Sternberg |
Choral Conducting with Ralph Hunter, John Dexter and Robert DeCormier |
Arranging with Ruth Anderson and Rayburn Wright |
Film scoring with Earle Hagen, Rayburn Wright and Walter Scharf |
Member of The BMI Musical Theater Workshop with Lehman Engel |
Television Production with Donald McClenhan |
ASCAP - Writer and Publisher Member (Egg Cream Music) |
American Federation of Musicians Local 47 |
American Society of Music Arrangers & Composers (ASMAC) |
NARAS - Writer and Producer member |
Society of Composers & Lyricists |
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences |
American Guild of Temple Musicians |
International Archive of Jewish Music Recording Grant |
Standard ASCAP Awards for Concert Music Performance annually since 1980 |
The Kavod Award for Career Excellence from The Cantors Assembly |
Meet The Composer Grants |
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences - Service Honors |
Schubert Award for Musical Theatre Composition - Eastman School of Music |
The Kavod Award for Career Excellence from The International Cantors Assembly |
Recording grants from the International Archive of Jewish music. |
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