RYAN WHITTIER

Ken Burns: On Story from Redglass Pictures on Vimeo.

The brand new short documentary film “Ken Burns: On Story“, which I scored for Redglass Pictures, made its web debut on The Atlantic.  The film features the legendary Ken Burns discussing what he finds most compelling about the art of storytelling.  I was honored to compose and perform the music for it.

I recently finished the original music for Redglass Pictures’ brand new short film about “millenials” for Mercer (a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies).  It was a fun and challenging project for me, since the soundtrack needed elements of indie, folk, and good old fashioned rock’n'roll; it gave me the opportunity to feature guitars and a vocal cameo, which I hadn’t done on a soundtrack since 2005.

I composed, performed, and recorded the music for 14 short films at the National Museum of American Jewish History’s Only In America Hall of Fame exhibit in Philadelphia.  The museum’s grand opening to the public was November 26, 2010, and the Only In America biographical films are located on the museum’s first floor. The permanent exhibit was conceived and produced by Local Projects, the films were directed, shot, and edited by Redglass Pictures,  biographies include Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Louis Brandeis, Albert Einstein, Mordecai Kaplan, Sandy Koufax, Esteé Lauder, Emma Lazarus, Isaac Leeser, Golda Meir, Jonas Salk, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Rose Schneiderman, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Steven Spielberg, Barbra Streisand, Henrietta Szold, and Isaac Mayer Wise.

Learn more about the National Museum of American Jewish History here: http://nmajh.org/