PANELISTS:

Amanda Jones

Composer

MODERATOR: Anthony D’Alessandro

"I have a metronome on my phone so I just tap tempo, the beats of the comedy, and that’s how I come up with the tempo for some of these sketches." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Jen Malone

Music Supervisor

MODERATOR: Peter White

“Obviously you can have the most perfect song in the entire world. But if you can’t clear it, you can’t use it.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Sean Callery

Composer

MODERATOR: Peter White

"The game is 21 years old, so you had to honor that, that quality and the tones of the color, and yet score it and be fresh and new and honor it and be different.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Nico Muhly

Composer

MODERATOR: Peter White

"I felt like, for me, the orchestra wanted to exist both in this gigantic space but also in quite a small intimate environment." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Daniel Pemberton

Co-Songwriter/Composer

MODERATOR: Anthony D’Alessandro

“It’s one of those things I still cannot really believe what happened: co-writing a song with Mick Jagger? He sounds amazing, and he sounds like Mick Jagger." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Amanda Jones

Composer

MODERATOR: Anthony D’Alessandro

“We came up with this idea where it was unlikely duets that are best friends. For example, you may be warming up with the trombone player and the flute player. They may not be in the same section but they just hang out." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Jeff Russo

Composer

MODERATOR: Anthony D’Alessandro

"It’s really important to try to cast your own thing, but never let go of the thing that you know you were.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Dan Romer

Composer

MODERATOR: Peter White

"The really fun thing about [the project] is that the actual score starts learning from the songs as the show goes." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Daniel Pemberton

Composer

MODERATOR: Anthony D’Alessandro

“I always like trying to make music that doesn’t feel like what you’d expect. But in this case ... I had to do exactly what you’d expect to sell those ideas.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Jeff Russo

Composer

MODERATOR: Anthony D’Alessandro

“We talked early on about that there’s a connection to [David] Bowie. ... We wanted to add some of that grit and some of that way he did things into the into [the show], and he sort of pops up throughout the whole series.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Tom Mizer

Composer/Songwriter

Curtis Moore

Composer/Songwriter

MODERATOR: Anthony D’Alessandro

"We were put together to write a musical with her. ... And then she came to us one day and said ‘I have to do this little Amazon pilot. I’ll be away for a couple months. No one’s gonna watch the show. We’ll write the musical then.’ ” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Daniel Pemberton

Composer

MODERATOR: Anthony D’Alessandro

“I spent a long time making and recording weird noises all my life. There’s things I’ve been like, ‘I’m never going to get to use this.’ On this show I did.” Read Story Here