“I actually didn’t realize that until years after I was already a fan of ‘Cherbourg.’ … It was like on probably my 10th viewing, I was like, ‘Oh my god! One character is named Guy and the other one is Madeline!'” “Not too many people pick up on that little trivia, but it’s true,” Hurwitz said. Sure enough, Guy and Madeline are both names of characters in “Cherbourg.” “Those became two of my favorite movies, two of my favorite musicals, and huge inspirations for ‘La La Land,’ as well as the first feature that we made called ‘Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench,’ which was another musical, almost like a prototype in some ways for ‘La La Land,’ but both of those hugely inspired by those French musicals.” “He turned me onto these two musicals,” Hurwitz said. Those flicks included 1960s French musical classics by director Jacques Demy and composer Michel Legrand, namely “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” (1964) and “The Young Girls of Rochefort” (1967). … We became roommates sophomore year and just spent an enormous amount of time together, watching movies, talking about movies.” “He was studying filmmaking, I was studying music and we started talking about how we could put what we do together. “We took that really seriously for a while, then Damien and I quit the band and started focusing exclusively on movies,” Hurwitz said. His freshman year, he started a band with Chazelle as the drummer. So, I went into college with the goal of being able to get into that field.” … I loved movies and the music in movies, and a lot of the best music, especially instrumental orchestral music, is being composed in movies. “There was no other school subject I was particularly good at or that interested me. “By the time I was going to college, I started to realize I should go into music,” Hurwitz said. I was really passionate about it for a couple of years, then lost interest in composing for some reason and didn’t do it in high school.”īut when it came time to go to college, he decided he should pursue music at Harvard University. My parents got me a synthesizer and a floppy-disc sequencer, this basic piece of technology where you can record tracks and layer tracks on top of each other. “I started taking piano lessons when I was about 6,” Hurwitz said. Hurwitz grew up in nearby Glendale, Wisconsin, getting his public education at Nicolet High School. … I went through a lot of demos on that … but when I finally found that melody, we both knew that it was right.” I was just home and they have a piano there and I spend a lot of time at the piano when I’m home … just trying to find the right melody for that point in the movie.
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“It was during the summer that I cracked that particular thing. “I was actually at my parents’ house in Wisconsin,” Hurwitz said. While “City of Stars” has become an award-winning love note from Hollywood to Los Angeles, the melody ironically came to Hurwitz while visiting his folks in a very rural part of Waupaca, Wisconsin, where his folks keep a cottage for summer escapes from their current home in California’s Bay Area. So to see people responding to it this way and giving us those kind of things, it means a lot.” “We worked on this for a very, very long time and were so passionate about it. I said in my speech, we put so much of ourselves into it, and that’s really the truth. “It was very flattering,” Hurwitz told WTOP. Sunday is shaping up to be a big night at the Academy Awards for both Hurwitz and his old college roommate, writer/director Damien Chazelle, who won Best Director and Best Screenplay at the Golden Globes while Hurwitz won a pair of Globes for Original Score and Song (“City of Stars”). So “bring on the rebels” like composer Justin Hurwitz, a poet whose “ripples from pebbles” have propelled the musical “La La Land” to win a record seven Golden Globes, breaking the record by “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” and earn a record 14 Oscar nods, tying “All About Eve” and “Titanic.” “Who knows where it will lead us? And that’s why they need us!” WASHINGTON - “A bit of madness is key, to give us new colors to see,” Emma Stone sings. Business & Finance Click to expand menu.Īug| WTOP's Jason Fraley chats with Justin Hurwitz (Highlights) ( Jason Fraley).
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