Randy Newman (US) at Vinterjazz at Dr Koncerthuset, Koncertsalen

With songs that run the gamut from heartbreaking to satirical and a host of unforgettable film scores, Randy Newman has used his many talents to create musical masterpieces widely recognized by generations of audiences.

After starting his songwriting career as a teenager, Newman launched into recording as a singer and pianist in 1968 with his self-titled album Randy Newman. Throughout the 1970s he released several other acclaimed albums such as: 12 Songs, Sail Away, and Good Old Boys. In addition to his solo recordings and regular international touring, Newman began composing and scoring for films in the 1980s. The list of movies he has worked on since then includes The Natural, Awakenings, Ragtime, all three Toy Story pictures, Seabiscuit, James and the Giant Peach, A Bug’s Life, and most recently, Disney/Pixar’s Monsters University, the prequel to Monsters Inc. (which he also scored)....

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With songs that run the gamut from heartbreaking to satirical and a host of unforgettable film scores, Randy Newman has used his many talents to create musical masterpieces widely recognized by generations of audiences.

After starting his songwriting career as a teenager, Newman launched into recording as a singer and pianist in 1968 with his self-titled album Randy Newman. Throughout the 1970s he released several other acclaimed albums such as: 12 Songs, Sail Away, and Good Old Boys. In addition to his solo recordings and regular international touring, Newman began composing and scoring for films in the 1980s. The list of movies he has worked on since then includes The Natural, Awakenings, Ragtime, all three Toy Story pictures, Seabiscuit, James and the Giant Peach, A Bug’s Life, and most recently, Disney/Pixar’s Monsters University, the prequel to Monsters Inc. (which he also scored).

The highly praised 2008 Nonesuch Records release Harps and Angels was Newman’s first album of new material since 1999. The Austin Chronicle wrote “the characters are memorable, the satire sharp, the music luxurious, and the arrangements maybe the most gorgeous in all pop music.”

In 2011, Nonesuch released a live CD and DVD recorded at London’s intimate LSO St. Luke’s, an 18th-century Anglican church that has been restored by the London Symphony Orchestra, where he was accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Robert Ziegler.

The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 3, which is the third in a series of new solo piano/vocal recordings of his songs from his six-decade career, was released in 2016, along with a boxed set of all three Songbook albums. Time Out New York said of the series, “The Songbook records strip away the orchestrations of his regular albums, leaving Newman alone at the piano, singing…three-minute masterpieces from throughout a half-century career.”

Additionally, Newman released “Putin,” a satirical song about the infamous Russian leader, in the fall of 2016. The song is from his forthcoming album of new material, due from Nonesuch in spring 2017.

Randy Newman’s many honors include six Grammys, three Emmys, and two Academy Awards, as well as a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013—the same year he was given an Ivor Novello PRS for Music Special International Award. Mostly recently, Newman was presented with a PEN New England Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence Award in June 2014.

Publikum har noget særligt i vente, når den prisvindende sanger, pianist og filmkomponist Randy Newman besøger Koncertsalen.

Randy Newman har brugt sine mange talenter til at skabe musikalske mesterværker, der er anerkendt af generationer af publikummer, med sange der rammer hele følelsesregistret lige fra hjerteskærende til satirisk, samt et væld af uforglemmelige filmscores.

I de sidste par årtier har Randy Newman måske været bedst kendt for at komponere musik til forskellige afholdte børnfilm. Han modtog endda en Oscar for 'Toy Story 3'. Men hans soloalbum er umiskendelige; Tag for eksempel hans 1977-hit'Short People', en bidende satire om fordomme. Hans nyeste album, 'Dark Matter', der netop er udkommet, er et rungende bevis på, at han stadig har sin kyniske humor og skarphed i fuld behold.

Newman begyndte sin sangskriverkarriere som teenager, hvorefter han i 1968 kastede sig ud i en karriere som sanger og pianist med sit selvbetitlede album 'Randy Newman'. Gennem 1970'erne udgav han flere anerkendte album, så som: '12 Songs', 'Sail Away' og 'Good Old Boys'. Udover hans soloplader og regelmæssige internationale turneer, begyndte Newman i 1980’erne at komponere filmmusik. Listen over film han har arbejdet med siden, omfatter 'The Natural', 'Awakenings', 'Ragtime',alle tre 'Toy Story'-film, 'Seabiscuit', 'James and the Giant Peach', 'A Bug's Life', 'Disney/Pixar's Monsters Inc.' og 'Monsters University' samt senest 'Cars 3' i 2017.

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