Peter Rodgers Melnick
Peter Rodgers Melnick (born July 24, 1958) is an American author and composer for film, television and musical theatre.
Peter Rodgers Melnick
- Born
- 1958 · New York City.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- composer · conductor · jazz guitarist · musician
- Education
- Harvard University · Guildhall School of Music and Drama · Berklee College of Music · Choate Rosemary Hall
- Languages
- English
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Peter Rodgers Melnick figure dans les notices d'autorité comme compositeur, musicien et chef d'orchestre ; sa naissance est enregistrée le 24 juillet 1958.
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La naissance est enregistrée par la Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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Career
Some of Melnick’s earlier film score credits include L.A. Story, The Only Thrill, Convicts, and Farce of the Penguins. His television credits include the PBS's, Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood, Indictment: The McMartin Trial, Grand Avenue, and Lily Dale by Horton Foote. His first produced musical was Adrift in Macao, featuring script and lyrics by Christopher Durang. Melnick then collaborated with Bill Russell on The Last Smoker in America, a musical comedy about a dysfunctional family struggling with a new law forbidding smoking. It opened in Columbus, Ohio in late 2010. Melnick and Russell have also worked together on two musical one-acts, Patter for the Floating Lady, based on the eponymous Steve Martin, and A Bad Spell, adapted from a Virginia Moriconi short story Simple Arithmetic.
Personal life
Personal life
Melnick is the son of Daniel Melnick and Linda Rodgers, and grandson of Richard Rodgers and grew up in New York City. He graduated from The Choate School (which later merged with Rosemary Hall to become Choate Rosemary Hall) and attended Harvard College, Berklee College of Music, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He also studied jazz with the Jaki Byard. Melnick lives in Montecito, California, with wife, Talia Van-Son.
Musical theatre scores
Musical theatre scores
• Adrift in Macao (2007) • The Last Smoker in America (2012)
Television scores
Television scores
• The Death of a Star (1987) TV documentary • The Mystery of the Master Builders (1988) TV documentary • Nightingales (1989) TV series • The KGB, the Computer and Me (1990); TV documentary • Testing Dirty (1990); TV series: ABC Afterschool Specials • Magic (1991); TV series • Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul (1995); TV series documentary: American Masters • Robert Rauschenberg: Inventive Genius (1999); TV series documentary: American Masters • Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood (2009); TV documentary • James McNeill Whistler: The Case for Beauty (2014) TV documentary
Film scores
• Vampire Knights (1987) • Homesick, film short (1988) • Get Smart, Again! (1989); TV movie • Out of Sight, Out of Mind (1990) • Bad Attitudes (1991); TV movie • L.A. Story (1991) • Convicts (1991) • Only You (1992) • In the Name of the Father, film short (1992) • Running Mates (1992); TV movie • Arctic Blue (1993) • 12:01 (1993); TV movie • Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995); TV movie • For Hope (1996); TV movie • Grand Avenue (1996); TV movie • No One Could Protect Her (1996) • Two Mothers for Zachary (1996); TV movie • Lily Dale (1996) TV movie • Every 9 Seconds (1997); TV movie • Jitters (1997); TV movie • The Only Thrill (1997) • Time to Say Goodbye? (1997) • Becoming Dick (2000); TV movie • Tak For Alt: Survival of a Human Spirit (2000); Documentary Feature • Mermaid (2000); TV movie • Taking Back Our Town (2001); TV movie • Call Waiting, (2004) • Farce of the Penguins (2006) • Benjamin (2018)
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- 1.Charles Isherwood. Here's Looking at You, Beloved Movie Clichés. The New York Times. 14 February 2007.
- 2.Piepenburg, Erik. NYMF: Five Questions About 'The Last Smoker in America'. The New York Times. October 12, 2009.
- 3."Musical Composer Peter Melnick ’76 Premieres 'The Last Smoker in America'". The Choate School. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
- 4.Melnick, Peter. Biography. PeterMelnick.com. 2013.
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