Michael Abels
Michelle Hannett
April 27, 2020
WaterTower Music has announced the release of the soundtrack to the HBO film Bad Education, with music by Michael Abels (Get Out, Us).
Inspired by true events, the film stars Academy Award nominee Hugh
Jackman and Academy Award winner Allison Janney. The story follows Frank
Tassone (Jackman) and Pam Gluckin (Janney) who reign over a popular
Long Island school district on the verge of the nation’s top spot,
spurring record college admissions and soaring property values. But when
an embezzlement scheme surfaces that threatens to destroy all they’ve
built, Frank is forced to maintain order and secrecy — by whatever means
necessary.The Bad Education score, by composer Michael Abels,
is a vital part of the film’s fabric; a brilliant and intense telling
the story through his music. https://www.hbo.com/movies/bad-education
“The score is an homage to great classical concert music, evoking the
rigorous world of competitive academia, and its high level of training
and discipline,” explained Abels about his approach to the composition.
“But as this structured world begins to unravel in the film, the score
also includes stark, minimalist cues driven primarily by percussion.
Michael Abels is a composer/producer best known for his scores for
writer/director Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning film GET OUT, and highly
anticipated follow-up US, for which Abels was awarded “Discovery of the
Year” at the 2019 World Soundtrack Awards. Abels’ score for US was also
shortlisted for the 2020 Oscars, received a Critics’ Choice nomination,
an NAACP Image Award nomination, multiple critics’ awards, and was named
“Score of the Decade” by online publication The Wrap. As a concert
composer, Abels has received grants from the National Endowment for the
Arts, Meet The Composer, and the Sphinx Organization, among others. His
orchestral works have been performed by the Chicago Symphony, the
Cleveland Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra,
and many more.
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