What composer’s and lawyers have in common. Three minute read. www.daronhagen.com/blog/2025/11...
What composer’s and lawyers have in common. Three minute read. www.daronhagen.com/blog/2025/11...
"Hell no. We don't agree w/ each other about finance, we don't agree w/ each other about immigration, we don't agree w/ each other on foreign affairs – but by God, we can agree we don't want to be ruled by a hand full of rich men who think they're better than the rest of us."
Heather Cox Richardson
Congrats to the “I Hear America Singing” team!
Thank you Edinburgh Film Awards for making our #operafilm “I Hear America Singing” a semi finalist in the fall competition. Wish us luck in the final round!
#FYC #grammy2026
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
FYC in these three Grammy® categories:
➤"Best Contemporary Classical Composition" ("Everyone, Everywhere")
➤"Best Choral Performance" (The Cecilia Chorus of NY and Orchestra / Mark Shapiro)
➤"Best Engineered Album, Classical" (Andreas K. Meyer)
Listen: naxos.lnk.to/8579180
EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE has been entered for "Best Contemporary Classical Composition," for "Best Choral Performance,” and "Best Engineered Album, Classical" in the Grammy® FYC-honored to have composed this work for these amazing artists.
more: naxos.lnk.to/8579180
More: www.burningsled.org/everyone
Daron Hagen: Shining Brow: “When I woke up this morning . . .”
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Today’s DCMP: Daron Hagen: Shining Brow: “When I woke up this morning . . .” #ClassicalMusic
Thank you, Los Angeles Motion Picture Festival for honoring our Operafilm “I Hear America Singing” with Orson Welles platinum awards for BEST MUSIC SCORE, BEST WRITER, BEST DIRECTOR, and the Orson Welles silver award BEST PICTURE. Learn more : www.americasinging.art
A wrap on year ten of serving as co-director of music composition for the Wintergreen Music Festival. Such a pleasure. Pictured with artistic director @Erin Freeman and co-composition chair @Gilda Lyons
www.burningsled.org/bardo-trilogy
Amazing news! I Hear America Singing was just selected by Paris Film Awards via FilmFreeway.com!
Amazing news! I Hear America Singing was just selected by New York Movie Awards via FilmFreeway.com!
A new playlist has been posted on the Daron Hagen website featuring new commercial releases and several archival recordings from the vault.
Thank you, Mindfield Film Festival!
Thank you #losangelesfilmawards for honoring us with the BEST MUSICAL / DANCE FILM laurel as well as an honorable mention in the BEST INDIE FILM category.
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My #operafilm “9/10: Love Before the Fall” (now streaming on @amazonprime.bsky.social video) will screen on June 19 in the Marina del Rey Film Festival. I’ll be there!
Write, sing, paint, argue, read, fight for the examined life, help others, encourage compassion, empathy, justice, equality, encourage the lifelong search for truth, an appreciation of the importance of holding two opposing ideas in your mind at once. Love others.
Now on the film festival circuit.
HUMAN RIGHTS. Released today internationally on Naxos Records.
Robert Frankenberry stars in the #operafilm “I Hear America Singing” — just released to film festivals. More info here: www.americasinging.art
Christopher Scott is terrific in the new #operafilm “I Hear America Singing” now entering the film festival circuit.