Ron Passaro https://www.ronpassaromusic.com Composer Mon, 06 Jan 2014 16:29:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 The Top 10 Simpsons Songs of the Nineties https://www.ronpassaromusic.com/the-top-10-simpsons-songs-of-the-nineties/ https://www.ronpassaromusic.com/the-top-10-simpsons-songs-of-the-nineties/#respond Fri, 06 Apr 2012 03:45:45 +0000 http://www.ronpassaromusic.com/?p=933 It’s time! My fourth article has gone live at Ron Sklar’s addictive online magazine, The Modern – Your Life in Retro.
The coolest part of this issue (in my opinion) is that my brother, Dan, is featured on the cover! So it’s a Passaro extravaganza!

You can head right down to the article below, but as always I encourage you to at least peruse this thing from cover to cover.

When I started going through all the great songs from the Simpsons, I had no idea that all 10 of my choices would end up coming from the 90’s… so perhaps down the road we’ll have a top 10 list of songs post 2000, etc.

You can see my selections here:

Cheers!

]]> https://www.ronpassaromusic.com/the-top-10-simpsons-songs-of-the-nineties/feed/ 0 The Top 10 Kick-Ass Instrumental Movie Theme Songs of the Seventies https://www.ronpassaromusic.com/the-top-10-kick-ass-instrumental-movie-theme-songs-of-the-seventies/ https://www.ronpassaromusic.com/the-top-10-kick-ass-instrumental-movie-theme-songs-of-the-seventies/#respond Sun, 25 Mar 2012 06:19:53 +0000 http://www.ronpassaromusic.com/?p=926 I’ve contributed a third article to Ron Sklar’s awesome online magazine, The Modern – Your Life in Retro.

You can jump right to my article below, but as always I encourage you to seriously check out all the gold content this publication has to offer.

This time around I reveal my picks for “The Top 10 Kick-Ass Instrumental Movie Theme Songs of the Seventies.” Was not an easy task!

You can read it here:

Cheers!

]]> https://www.ronpassaromusic.com/the-top-10-kick-ass-instrumental-movie-theme-songs-of-the-seventies/feed/ 0 The Top 10 Kick-Ass Instrumental Movie Theme Songs of the Eighties https://www.ronpassaromusic.com/the-top-10-kick-ass-instrumental-movie-theme-songs-of-the-eighties/ https://www.ronpassaromusic.com/the-top-10-kick-ass-instrumental-movie-theme-songs-of-the-eighties/#respond Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:48:19 +0000 http://www.ronpassaromusic.com/?p=913 I recently penned a second article for Ron Sklar’s awesome online magazine, The Modern – Your Life in Retro.

As I mentioned previously, this magazine rocks… so check it out every month! Really fascinating interviews and fun facts along with a healthy dose of nostalgia.

As you can guess from the title, my article uncovers “The Top 10 Kick-Ass Instrumental Movie Theme Songs of the Eighties.” Hope you dig it!

You can read it here:

Cheers!

]]> https://www.ronpassaromusic.com/the-top-10-kick-ass-instrumental-movie-theme-songs-of-the-eighties/feed/ 0 The Top 10 Kick-Ass TV Theme Songs https://www.ronpassaromusic.com/the-top-10-kick-ass-tv-theme-songs/ https://www.ronpassaromusic.com/the-top-10-kick-ass-tv-theme-songs/#respond Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:06:41 +0000 http://www.ronpassaromusic.com/?p=896 My good friend Ron Sklar recently asked me to start contributing to his phenomenal new online magazine, The Modern – Your Life in Retro.

I encourage you to check it out every month as the content is simply amazing. Heck, give up a TV show if you need to make time to read it!

The first article I wrote for the magazine is called “The Top 10 Kick-Ass TV Theme Songs.” It was a lot of fun to write and I hope you enjoy it!

You can read it here:

Cheers!

]]> https://www.ronpassaromusic.com/the-top-10-kick-ass-tv-theme-songs/feed/ 0 Alan Menken the special guest at Don’t Tell Mama https://www.ronpassaromusic.com/alan-menken-the-special-guest-at-dont-tell-mama/ https://www.ronpassaromusic.com/alan-menken-the-special-guest-at-dont-tell-mama/#respond Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:25:38 +0000 http://www.ronpassaromusic.com/?p=865 Want surreal? Imagine sitting in the back room of an NYC piano bar with about 50 other people listening to 8 time Oscar winner Alan Menken be candidly interviewed about his career.

This was my Thursday night last week at Don’t Tell Mama as part of Seth Rudetsky’s Broadway Chatterbox. As all good interviews are, this one was both humorous and informative. It goes without saying that it was inspiring!

By the way, I need to attend more of these events. Mr. Rudetsky is an informed, witty and highly entertaining host.

Interesting parts of the interview included Mr. Menken not being able to remember right away what show he first saw on Broadway. As he went on to explain, Broadway was “what his parents enjoyed to see,” and it wasn’t his medium of choice early on. He wanted to perform and release his own albums. Once he met Howard Ashman, everything would change. Little Shop of Horrors was an Off-Broadway hit and his incredible success with Disney was soon to follow.

All eight of Mr. Menken’s Oscars came from animated Disney movies. The interesting thing about this is that the only person to have won more Oscars than Mr. Menken is Walt Disney himself.

With Mr. Menken about to have 3 shows running simultaneously on Broadway, his career is hotter than ever. Joining Sister Act on the Great White Way will be Newsies and then Leap of Faith. He’s also providing instrumental scores for Hollywood movies, including the upcoming Mirror Mirror, a reinvention of the classic Snow White story, staring Julia Roberts.

By the way, Mr. Menken was recently interviewed for CBS Sunday Morning. Luckily the segment is available online. You can watch it here:

Enjoy!

Image provided by Loren Javier through the Creative Commons License.

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