Meet The Composer:
Hummie Mann's "P.T. Barnum"

The Seattle Composers Alliance proudly presented two-time Emmy Award-Winning Northwest composer Hummie Mann, discussing his experience with composing and conducting the musical score for the biographical mini-series "P.T. Barnum." The program aired nationally on the cable channel A&E on September 12 & 13 and re-aired in it's entirety on September 18.

Hummie's "Americana"-style music for this nationally televised mini-series was performed and recorded here in the Seattle area at Studio X, using local freelance orchestral players.

Directed by Simon Wincer (Lonesome Dove), the A&E mini-series "P.T. Barnum" stars Beau Bridges (Norma Rae, The Fabulous Baker Boys) as Phineous Taylor Barnum, the man whose circus spectacles of the late 19th century brought the world Tom Thumb, Siamese Twins Chang and Eng, and Jumbo the Elephant, and whose innovative business practices forever changed the manner in which advertising, publicity and entertainment are conducted in the United States.

Hummie gave audience members a chance to look into the creative process behind scoring music for film. Individual scenes from the film were screened and discussed, as well as the dynamics between a film composer and the director, and the technical challenges of finishing the musical project.

General Public:	$10
SCA Associate Members:	$5
SCA Full Members:	No Charge

Check out Hummie's interview with ScoreLogue.

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