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Artist of the Week!
March 2008, week 4
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David McHugh will be performing live at the next 'Write Up Our Alley' Triad Songwriter's Showcase on March 28th at Korner's Folly, Kernersville. Click on the image below for tickets and information!
David McHugh
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The next time your heart races when you see a movie chase scene or your eyes well with tears when the hero finally kisses the heroine on your favorite television show, it may be more than great acting and dramatic lighting. Listen closely to the music. It’s been specifically written to compliment and support the action on screen. David McHugh, the head of the MFA Film Music Composition program at the North Carolina School of the Arts has scored those memorable moments in films such as Moscow on the Hudson with Robin Williams, Mystic Pizza with Julia Roberts and Three Fugitives with Nick Nolte, James Earl Jones and Martin Short. David began his composing career writing commercial jingles. Among the hundreds he composed were music for Burger King, ABC Nightly News and Mr. Coffee.
Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, David says, “My mother was from a Sicilian immigrant family and would have been a concert pianist, if she could have.
She was always taking me and my siblings to the symphony and concerts.” David’s father, an Irishman who often worked two jobs, loved to sing. So the seeds of creativity and hard work were planted early. “I remember my parents were always working. I started writing music when I was 8. One day when I was 15, I told my mother I was going to be a composer. She said, ‘Well, you’re not going to make a lot of money, but if that’s what you want to do, it’s OK.” David began studying music and after high school attended Fredonia School of Music, graduating with Bachelors of Music...
